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BusinessWeek has an interesting report asserting that US tech companies with a strong international presence will weather the recession much better than US-centric companies.

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IBM is among the most diversified abroad, with just 39% of its revenues coming from inside the country. Other companies that get less than half their revenues from home include HP, Oracle (ORCL), and Sun Microsystems (JAVA), according to financial filings. In contrast, AT&T and Yahoo! pull in the majority of their sales from the U.S.