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For the past week, there's been a big brouhaha at Bloomberg over how reporters for the business news service have been using the company’s terminals to monitor employees on Wall Street. Some reporters have apparently used that information to find leads for the articles they write. Now Bloomberg has gotten former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano involved. Palmisano will conduct a ...

Shares of Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD), a maker of data center storage and networking gear, fell nearly 5% in afternoon trading Friday, after the company's revenue guidance late Thursday disappointed. Its fiscal Q2 results also lagged, in part because of weak business and government tech spending that was cited in the recent results of a number of tech companies, including ...

Bloomberg is taking another step to address the ongoing crisis surrounding the use of terminal data by Bloomberg News reporter to break stories. In a just-released announcement, Bloomberg announced that it was hiring former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has an independent advisor to deal with privacy and data issues. The company also said that Clark Hoyt, the Bloomberg News editor-at-large ...

But will there be an audit?