Presidential candidate Barack Obama, his Blackberry always close at hand, was the darling of the technology world and it rewarded him with generous donations to his 2008 campaign.
Although he is still raising far more money there than current Republican rival Mitt Romney, Obama in 2012 is finding Silicon Valley to be tougher terrain.
He lags behind his 2008 campaign in donations from workers at Internet, computer and telecom equipment powerhouses such asGoogle[GOOG 564.37 
3.67 (+0.65%) 
],IBM[IBM 192.89 0.03 (+0.02%) ], Hewlett Packard, and Cisco[CSCO 16.83 
-0.105 (-0.62%) ], according to a Reuters analysis of federal disclosures from the Obama presidential campaign committee.
The Obama campaign has raised $1.44 million through May from employees of 15 top tech companies, as compared to $1.6 million donated by the same companies’ staff four years ago.
CONTINUED at CNBC.
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