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Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:

Shares of analytics and data visualization software maker Tableau Software (DATA) are up $1.79, or 3%, at $62.01, after Goldman Sachs’s Jesse Hulsing raised the stock to a Buy from Neutral, with a $78 price target. Hulsing argues investors are too skeptical about the company’s ability to increase its recurring revenue. Hulsing thinks Tableau can hit $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2020, up from $439 million today.

There are still tens of millions of workers who haven’t moved to a “modern” form of “business intelligence,” or B.I., software, observes Hulsing, creating lots of market opportunity for the company. And Microsoft's (MSFT) competing offering, “Power B.I.,” costs less, but is “still limited as a tool."

Shares of techs are bouncing back broadly after yesterday’s half-a-percent drop in the Nasdaq Composite Index. The Nasdaq is up 0.6%, at 6,211.64.

Among gainers, Apple (AAPL) is up 84 cents, or 0.6%, at $146.26, Alphabet (GOOGL) is up $13.08, or 1.3%, at $974.89, Amazon (AMZN) is up up $13.16, or 1.4%, at $978.07, Facebook (FB) is up $2.29, or 1.5%, at $150.73, and Microsoft is up 72 cents, or 1%, at $70.50.

Some individual favorites are not bouncing back as sharply, with Nvidia (NVDA) up just 41 cents at $150.38, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) up 3 cents at $12.12. Some names are doing better, with fiber-optic component supplier Lumentum Holdings (LU) up $2.05, or 3.4%, at $63.05.

Shares of memory-chip maker Micron Technology (MU) are up 50 cents, or 1.6%, at $31.70, after Macquarie Research's Srini Pajjurithis morning reiterated his Outperform rating on Micron stock, and his $35 price target, writing that prices for DRAM will continue to rise the rest of this year thanks to demand from mobile devices and servers, and continued tight supply.

Shares of Yahoo! (YHOO) are unchanged at $53.12 after Verizon Communications (VZ) announced this morning it closed on its $4.5 billion acquisition of the company’s “core” advertising business, leaving behind a holding company that owns a valuable minority stake in Alibaba Group Holding (BABA). Yahoo! is changing its name to Altaba, and it expects its share ticker to change to “AABA” this coming Monday, June 19th, it said.

Yahoo!’s former chief, Marissa Mayer, is not staying on with the company. Her role is taken over by Thomas McInerney, and board members stepping down include co-founder David Filo and Maynard G. Webb.