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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and his son James have hogged the headlines largely due to their success in winning the battle to buy the iconic Wall Street Journal.
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Both major techMARK indices continued to track southwards with the market in recent weeks
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The general market massacre of the past month has a lot to do with an ongoing adjustment to the excesses of the technology boom. But it is a bit of a surprise that many telecoms companies have proved relatively immune, with the sector falling just 2 per cent since the beginning of July. Other major techMARK sectors have been well and truly battered. IT hardware has fallen by 17 per cent, software and computer services 16 per cent and pharmaceuticals 23 per cent, all in the wake of continuing bad news-flow and even worse market sentiment.
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Notwithstanding the crisis of confidence running through the mobile phone sector, recent events should encourage investors looking for a recovery in sentiment about technology. A number of statements have come out flagging up increases in corporate demand for IT services, while the new issues market has finally woken up from a long period of torpor.
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TechMARK has been marking time recently, despite the glut of results coming on to the market. At 1213.1, the index of the 100 biggest firms is only slightly up on what it was at the end of February.
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It seems that the bottom was hit on 21 September, when the benchmark techMARK 100 index hit 1110.98. Now the index has rebounded to 1653.83, and has risen 20 per cent in the shorter period since late October.
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