There were no notable earnings in tech last night or this morning. In news, FIRE (-2.8%) announced that it has appointed John Becker as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately and Kevin Klausmeyer has joined its Board of Directors as an independent director. Elsewhere, BMC (-0.5%) disclosed a workforce reduction that is expected to result in pre-tax charges of ~$33-38 mln. Among rumors, Hutchison Whampoa may be targeting a 29.9% stake in TI (+4.0%), according to reports. Among notable analyst upgrades this morning in the tech space, Needham upgraded HILL (+6.7%) to Buy and QLIK (+1.4%) was upgraded to Overweight at Evercore. Among downgrades, Oppenheimer downgraded CNQR (-2.7%) to Underperform. There are no notable names in tech scheduled to report quarterly results today after the close.






