By Rex Crum, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks wavered in Wednesday morning trade as the sector showed signs of weakness following early opening gains.

Among leading tech stocks, Apple Inc. (AAPL) was flat at $98.70, Netflix Inc. (NFLX) shed 84 cents a share to $455.41, LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) slipped by $3.53 to $200.74 a share and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) was off by 3 cents a share at $35.19.

Mild gains came from eBay Inc. (EBAY), Twitter Inc. (TWTR), IBM Corp. (IBM) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

Security software company Symantec Corp. (SYMC) rose 27 cents a share to $23.46. A report in Bloomberg News said Symantec is considering splitting into two companies, with one focused on security programs and one on data storage business offerings.

The Nasdaq Composite Index (RIXF) was down by 5 points at 4,379 and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) was also in the red.

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