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Tech Winners and Losers: Deutsche Telekom

05/08/08 - 04:22 PM EDT


Updated from 2:16 p.m. EDT with new stock prices

Tech stocks were up modestly Thursday along with the major market indices as investors digested the latest earnings reports along with a pullback in oil prices.

Shares of Deutsche TelekomDT, the parent company of T-Mobile were up 49 cents, or 2.8%, to $18.08 after the company reported first-quarter earnings higher from a year ago though revenue declined.

Adjusted for special items, the company earned a profit of 750 million euros ($1.2 billion) during the quarter, compared with 563 million euros ($867.1 million) the year before. Revenue fell 3.1% to $14.98 billion euros ($23.1 billion). The number of its mobile phone customers rose 9.5% from a year ago to 123.1 million.

Handset maker PalmPALM gained 23 cents, or 4.1%, to $5.86 following a presentation by the company's Chief Financial Officer Andrew Brown to investors at the Merrill Lynch Technology 2008 conference.

Brown said the company's Centro phone introduced about eight months ago is bringing a new demographic of customers and its performance is meeting the company's expectations. He said Palm also plans to refresh its Windows Mobile based phones this summer. And he said the company has a new platform coming out later this year and will deliver the first products based on that platform in 2009.

Shares of GoogleGOOG were up $4.01, or 0.7%, to $583.01 ahead of the company's annual shareholder meeting.

Google's stock has jumped 25% over the last four weeks. Google has also reportedly been considering teaming up with YahooYHOO if the latter chooses to outsource its search advertising though that deal is likely to face intense scrutiny from regulators.

Chip maker MarvellMRVL was up 12 cents, or 0.9%, to $13.30. The company said it will pay $10 million to settle with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission regarding its investigation into Marvell's historic stock option grant practices.

ClearwireCLWR plunged $1.46, or 9%, to $14.76 after Michael Rollins, an analyst at Citigroup, downgraded the stock to sell from hold, saying the stock trades at a "substantial" premium to his fair value estimate of $13 a share. Clearwire said Wednesday it will combine with Sprint Nextel to form a $14.5 billion wireless broadband company.

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