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A rare earnings miss for IBM tugged the Dow Jones industrial average lower on Friday, while the rest of the market headed toward slight gains after a turbulent week. Quarterly earnings for the country's largest provider of computer services fell short of forecasts for the first time since 2005.Read more on NewsOK.com

Intel shares fall in after-hours trading as the computer chipmaker unveils a drop in sales and profits for the last three months of 2012.

IBM led the worldwide server market in Q2 2011 with a 30.5% market share, topping HP which fell to the second position after its market share dropped to 29.8%, down 1.7 percentage points from Q1 2011.

Shares of Intel Corp rose 2.6 percent to $23.35 in extended trading on Tuesday after the company reported its first-quarter results.

Dell Inc reported stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, showing it was better able to cut costs and protect prices on its products than analysts, or its own executives, had predicted.