Public technology companies began the steady drumbeat of quarterly reports last week, notably VMware and Microsoft. Meanwhile, Dell EMC pushed ahead toward the blending of the partner programs that are impacted by last year's merger of the two tech giants.

50 percent – Year-over-year bookings increase in the fourth quarter for VMware's NSX software-defined networking technology, according to company officials. During their quarterly call with analysts Thursday, CEO Pat Gelsinger and CFO Zane Rowe said the company's investments in leading-edge data center and cloud technology are paying off and sees strong growth ahead for those two areas. The executives also said VMware has laid a strong foundation for a successful long-term partnership with Amazon Web Services.

$7.38 billion – Second-quarter revenue Microsoft earned from its Productivity and Business Processes division, up 10.3 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. That helped contribute to an overall 1.2 percent growth in revenue to $24.09 billion from $23.8 billion. Meanwhile, net income jumped 3.6 percent to $5.2 billion. CEO Satya Nadella said the company's recently completed purchase of LinkedIn holds the promise of additional growth in the second half of 2017 and into next year.

$150 million – Investment Dell EMC will make into its incentives for channel partners during its upcoming fiscal year. The company, which merged in September, is looking to boost back-end rebates for legacy EMC partners. The investment addresses what solutions providers see as one of the main differences between the Dell and EMC programs.

1,250 – Number of Wave 2 802.11ac access points designed and installed by solution provider 5 Bars inside NRG Stadium in Houston, which will host Sunday's Super Bowl 51 showdown between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons. 5 Bars needed to install a network that could handle over 48,500 simultaneous users to accommodate the stadium's 72,000 capacity.

60,000 – Additional notebook computer batteries HP Inc. said it's recalling because of potential "fire and burn hazards," the company and the federal government said. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission disclosed that the recall has been expanded to cover 101,000 batteries, up from 41,000 batteries that were recalled in June, 2016. The recall covers batteries that were sold between March 2013 and October 2016, and that are compatible with HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, Compaq Presario and HP Pavilion notebooks. But HP said the recall does not cover all notebooks sold in those lines.