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Salesforce.com pushed the Computer Software & Services industry lower today making it today's featured Computer Software & Services loser.

F5 Networks is in a unique place right now. It has followed the market as a whole into bearish country.

Deutsche Bank's Brian Modoff today reiterates a Buy rating on shares of F5 Networks while trimming his price target to $140 from $150 to account for lower estimates based on macroeconomic concerns .

In trading on Thursday, computer peripherals shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.6%. Helping drag down the group were shares of F5 Networks , off about 4.9% and shares of Riverbed Tech off about 3% on the day.

F5 Networks, Inc. : Deutsche Bank lowered its estimates and price target for F5 Networks after its latest research indicated macro weakness is influencing large enterprise IT spending and product upgrades.

Shares of F5 Networks, Inc. ended the trading session higher by $4.72 or 4.19% from its previous close.

The application delivery controller market grew 5% Q/Q in seasonally weak Q1, according to Dell'Oro . Especially positive for market leader F5 is Dell O'ro's estimate that sales of physical high-end ADCs - a market F5 dominates - rose 14%. Less positive is the fact the budding market for virtual ADCs grew 167% - while F5 sells virtual ADCs , they ... (more)

More than 400,000 people now work in the state tech industry, according to a new study released by the Technology Alliance at its annual luncheon in Seattle.

F5 Networks is a leading provider of technology which optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance and availability of servers, data storage devices and other network resources.

Cisco reported last week relatively solid third-quarter results. The company reported third-quarter per share earnings of $0.48, an increase of 21% over the same period last year.

Scott Thompson. former CEO of Yahoo , the No. 3 search engine, resigned as a director of Spunk , a week after quitting his job at Yahoo.

Former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has stepped down from the board of directors of F5 Networks, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

SOFTWARE Autodesk stock falls 13 percent Autodesk, a maker of architectural and engineering software, fell the most in more than three years after providing a second-quarter earnings forecast that trailed some analysts' estimates.

Networking gear maker F5 Networks said former Yahoo Inc CEO Scott Thompson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately.

F5 Networks, Inc. , the global leader in Application Delivery Networking , today announced that it will participate in several conference sessions and host a booth as a Bronze sponsor of the LTE World Summit 2012 , taking place May 22-24 at the International Convention Center in Barcelona.

Atlas Venture announced today that serial entrepreneur Christopher Lynch has joined its investment team.

It amazes me that Wall Street still does not fully appreciate the turnaround story that is networking giant Cisco .

Shareholders inclined to shoot first unloaded positions in Cisco as downbeat comments from CEO John Chambers derailed record revenue and earnings enthusiasm.