The era of the all-powerful search engine is waning. In its place, the power of the publisher and the content provider is rising again, just like it did in the early 19th century — only the players will be very different. Back when “Web 2.0″ was still a shiny new moniker, search engines had unequaled power. They were the gatekeepers between content producers (like newspapers) and the 

China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. 2010 $100 Million Technology Product and Services Business Objective Reviewed in Greenfield Webcast Today.

China Crescent Enterprises, Inc.'s (OTCBB: CCTR) $100 million technology product and services business objective has been featured in a 2010 strategy and Greenfield program Webcast hosted by NewMarket Technology, Inc. today. China Crescent is expected to play a key role in NewMarket's plan to build a $1 billion emerging market systems integration operation.

Analysts at Kaufman Bros. have upgraded the stock of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) from Hold to Buy. The price target for Marvell has been raised to $25 from $20.

Analysts at Kaufman believe there is an investment opportunity in semiconductor companies levered to the PC supply chain due to the positive demand outlook for computing.

The price target on Marvell of $25 is at a multiple of 19x 2010 EPS estimate of $1.30 and 17x 2011 EPS estimate of $1.50. Analysts expect gross margins to be the biggest near term risk. Analysts believe the current valuation of Marvell is an attractive entry point

Tessera Technologies Inc. says the U.S. agency investigating its patent infringement claims has affirmed that Tessera patents are valid — but not that other companies have violated them.

The news sent Tessera shares down $2.38, or 10 percent, to $21.51 in premarket trading.  The company, which licenses miniaturization technology for electronics, has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar imported products from several companies that it says violate its technology rights.

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Paul Galloway says the evidence might affect an ongoing patent infringement suit. -  A former employee of Seagate Technology claims that the company destroyed evidence that could have affected a long-standing patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by engineering company Convolve Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In a court document obtained by the New York Times that was filed late last month, the former employee, Paul A. Galloway, claimed in an affidavit that Seagate deliberately destroyed the source code pertaining to a disk drive that used Convolve's intellectual property and "failed to preserve" Galloway's PC containing all of his work during development of the drive.