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Microsoft in talks over AOL merger
Redmond is pushing ahead in discussions with Time Warner over a possible merger with AOL's Web businesses, according to The Wall Street Journal .
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Bloomberg Backs Paterson on the Amazon Tax Question
WASHINGTON — Mayor Bloomberg is siding strongly with the Paterson administration and against three New York lawmakers in the debate over whether Albany can tax out-of-state companies who do business in New York. Seeking millions in added tax revenues, the administration this spring enacted a pair of provisions to assess business taxes against out-of-state banks that issue credit cards in New ...
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Google tumbles as earnings disappoint
GOOGLE'S second-quarter net profit rose 35 per cent, but its shares tumbled after hours as its earnings missed market expectations.
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Intel Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Intel Corporation celebrates a milestone anniversary today by looking 40 years in the past and 40 years into the future. To celebrate this milestone, Intel unveiled the World Mural Project, a digital artwork that captures the vision of young people on how computers will transform the globe over the next 40 years.
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Google reports weaker-than-expected 35% rise in net profit
Google reported a weaker-than-expected rise in net profit blaming lower returns from managing its huge cash pile rather than softening sales of online advertising.
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Office, Windows drives 42 per cent profit jump
SEATTLE - Microsoft says its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 per cent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software. Earnings for the three months ended June 30 rose to $4.3 billion, or 46 cents per share, but that missed Wall Street's expectations by a penny per share.
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In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint
Google and Microsoft issued quarterly results on Thursday that disappointed investors.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 08:44 UTC
Samsung is following Apple, MS & LG in the trend where cellphones involve "big, wide touchscreens" as their main look and feel. Their Ultrasmart F700 phone has a qwerty keyboard, 2.8" widescreen, 5 MP camera and 3G support.
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Acer One Linpus along
YOU’LL BE HARD PRESSED to find a fault in the aesthetics of the Acer One netbook, but Hardware Zone finds it to be overwhelmed. Linpus Lite OS seems to be a bit on the limited side.
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Cuba gets Internet access from Venezuela
CUBA HAS recently begun loosening its hold over its citizens, allowing mobile phones to be imported and purchased, and PCs in the home.
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Microsoft posts sharp profit rise, cautious guidance
LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, on Thursday reported a sharp rise in fourth-quarter and fiscal year profit but signaled a weak outlook ahead. Microsoft said net profit jumped 41 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter from a year ago to $4.29 billion.
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Google reports weaker-than-expected 35% rise in net profit 18 Jul 2008, 0707 hrs IST,REUTERS
SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc reported a weaker-than-expected 35 per cent rise in net profit as the company blamed lower returns from managing its huge cash pile rather than softening sales of online advertising.
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Collin Dunn: Does Recycling Really Do Any Good?
The words "recycled" and "recyclable" often conjure up similar notions of relative greenness; the general idea is that, as long as you aren't pitching it...
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Microsoft profit outlook below expectations
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SAG stakes fight on made-for-Internet content
Associated Press - July 17, 2008 9:44 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Screen Actors Guild has given its most detailed explanation yet for its rejection of a final contract offer by Hollywood...
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Latest Mitch Albom treatise is online only
Mitch Albom has a new book out — well, not really a book, but a commencement speech in book form. And not in traditional book form, but as an e-book, published exclusively through Amazon.com's Kindle reader.
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Yahoo! Calls Microsoft's Takeover Attempt Stupefying
SAN FRANCISCO - On Thursday, Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock and Chief Executive Jerry Yang of Yahoo! sent a letter to shareholders calling Microsoft's actions "stupefying", and tearing into billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been working with Microsoft to push its proposed takeover, for his lack of knowledge of the Internet business.
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SAG stakes fight on made-for-Internet content
The Screen Actors Guild on Thursday gave its most detailed explanation yet for its rejection of a final contract offer by Hollywood studios, citing shortfalls in pay and union jurisdiction on made-for-Internet productions.
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EU charges Intel used coercion, bribery with EU makers
Brussels/Frankfurt/New York - European regulators charged late Thursday that US chip-maker Intel used coercion and bribery to unfairly gain market advantage in Europe. The European Commission said that it had sent another so-called statement of obje...
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SAG stakes fight on made-for-Internet content
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Screen Actors Guild has given its most detailed explanation yet for its rejection of a final contract offer by Hollywood studios, citing shortfalls in pay and union jurisdiction on made-for-Internet productions.
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Microsoft 4Q profit jumps 42 percent
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 percent, helped by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but the company offered a softer-than-expected outlook for the current quarter.
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Summary Box: Microsoft 4Q profit climbs
Thu, Jul 17, 2008 (6:15 p.m.) CASH COWS: Sales of Office, Windows helped push Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue up 18 percent to $15.8 billion.
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Google Deliberately Sells Fewer Ads — And May Have Gone Too Far
Listening to Google’s executives on their conference call with investors Thursday afternoon, you’d never know that the company’s second-quarter results fell short of expectations and its shares plummeted 10 percent in after-hours trading.
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