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Mom’s Day Gift Ideas: Hydroponic Garden, Craft Cutter

Mom works hard all year, so make her Mother’s Day something special with a special gift. Here are some tech gift ideas that could make her smile: Does Mom have no luck with growing flowers and herbs? The $69 Miracle-Gro AeroGarden 3SL, from AeroGrow International, can turn her Thumb of Doom into a Green Thumb. The AeroGarden is a hydroponic grow tank — it uses nutrient-enriched water instead of soil as the growing medium. An integrated grow light

Apple Supplier Skyworks Cites Diversification In Beat

Skyworks Solutions late Thursday posted better-than-expected fiscal Q2 sales and earnings, and the Apple chip supplier gave guidance well ahead of Wall Street targets. The report helped ease the sting of mixed results late Wednesday from two other top-performing chipmakers, Cavium (CAVM) and another Apple supplier, NXP Semiconductors (NXPI). Woburn, Mass.-based Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), which makes radio frequency and analog chips, reported an

LinkedIn Q1 Tops Views But Shares Clipped On Outlook

LinkedIn (LNKD) stock fell sharply in after-hours trading Thursday after the social network for business professionals gave a Q2 outlook well below expectations. The company reported Q1 revenue of $638 million, up 35% from the year-earlier period and above estimates of $636.5 million. Earnings per share minus items rose 50% to 57 cents, a penny above estimates. But for the second quarter LinkedIn sees revenue of $670 million to $675 million, well