There were no tech earnings of note. In news, Carl Icahn has discussed a potential alliance with BX (+1.1%) in ongoing DELL (+0.2%) private equity talks. Among rumors, AMZN (+0.8%) and YHOO (+0.6%) may be interested in Hulu, according to reports. Among notable analyst upgrades this morning in the tech space, EA (+1.7%) was upgraded to Overweight at Piper, Oppenheimer upgraded RFMD (+9.2%) to Outperform, BSFT (+4.7%) was upgraded to Mkt Perform at Raymond James, and AMX (+1.5%) was upgraded to Buy at BofA/Merrill. Among downgrades, TI (-5.1%) was downgraded to Equal Weight at Barclays and BofA/Merrill. SAI (-0.4%) is the only notable name in tech scheduled to report quarterly results today after the close.






