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Sony: June NPD Shows 'Impressive Growth' For All PlayStation Platforms
Responding to the NPD's revealed June U.S. hardware and software sales figures, Sony has released a statement highlighting the success of Metal Gear Solid 4, this month's top-selling title with 770k+ units sold, and PS3's 311% year-over-year sales growth, claiming the PlayStation brand is "hitting its stride" across all three platforms. Responding to the NPD's revealed June U.S. hardware and ...
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AMD shares fall after CEO steps down, weak 2Q
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell at the market open Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected.
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Free Wi-Fi at Gatorland
Spiderhost Inc. and AOK Networking have joined to provide wireless Internet to Gatorland.
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Wall Street opens lower on earnings reports
NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street is down in early trading after disappointing results from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offset a more upbeat quarterly report from Citigroup Inc.
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Horizon highlights – July 18 weekend
Our regular roundup of noteworthy sci-tech stories from the web includes: bye-bye computer mouse, 50-megapixel digital cameras, and turning cellphones into interpreters. If you think I missed a great story, feel free to post your links as a comment down below. Let’s kick it off: Online video – Joss Whedon’s Wacky Web Experiment “Fans of Buffy the Vampire [...]
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AMD shares fall after CEO steps down, weak 2Q
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell at the market open Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected. The shares lost 40 cents, or 7.8 percent, to $4.90 shortly after the opening bell. The stock has ranged from $4.53 to $16.19 over the past year. Under Ruiz's leadership, AMD rose to ...
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Napster Takeover Looms as Hedge Funds See Cash Eclipsing Stock
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Napster Inc., the Internet music pioneer whose shares have plunged 95 percent in six years, has become takeover bait for hedge funds zeroing in on a cash hoard exceeding the company's market value.
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Legg Mason to Support Current Yahoo Board at Annual Meeting
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. shareholder Legg Mason Capital Management will vote to retain the Internet company's current board at next month's annual meeting.
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Google shares fall after disappointing earnings
Google Inc. shares tumbled more than 8 percent in early trading Friday after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations.
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U.S. Lawmaker Wants Consent Required For Web Tracking
Internet providers should be required to get their customers' permission before the companies are allowed to track their online visits, a key House lawmaker said Thursday.
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The Open Championship! Windy, misting rain: Normal day at British Open
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) -- The flags around Royal Birkdale flapped in the stiff breeze Friday morning. A light mist fell from the gray clouds, which obscured any hint of the sun.
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U.S. stocks tilt lower as oil goes back on the rise
U.S. stocks slide lower, with Citigroup reporting smaller-than-expected losses and Merrill Lynch, Google and Microsoft all disappointing, and oil reversing direction after three days of losses.
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Market falls at the open on Google, Microsoft
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks fell at the open on Friday as disappointing earnings from tech bellwethers Google and Microsoft overshadowed a smaller-than-expected loss from Citigroup.
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Legg Mason to back Yahoo board slate
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's second largest institutional shareholder Legg Mason Capital Management said on Friday it will back Yahoo's board, dealing a blow to a billionaire investor Carl Icahn's efforts to get a rival board slate elected.
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Premarket roundup: Google, United parent UAL
NEW YORK (AP) _ Shares of Google Inc. hovered below $500 in pre-market trading Friday after the company jolted investors with the admission that the weak economy is affecting its advertising business.
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In the era of YouTube, viral marketing is becoming a key advertising component for fight promoters. It’s free, it’s accessible on your computer, and it appeals to a tech-savvy younger audience that may have some non-gambling related disposable income at hand.
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Internap Network Services to Release Financial Results for Second Quarter 2008 on Tuesday, August 5
ATLANTA----Internap Network Services Corporation , a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, will host a conference call briefing with Jim DeBlasio, president and chief executive officer, and George Kilguss, chief financial officer, on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
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Microsoft 4Q profit rises, Web ad business rocky
Shares of Microsoft Corp. sank more than 5 percent on Friday, a day after the company missed Wall Street's earnings forecast by a penny, and issued softer-than-expected guidance for the current first quarter.
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Microsoft says it offered $9 billion to Yahoo
In a letter to employees on Friday, a Microsoft executive said the company had offered to buy Yahoo's search assets for US$1 billion and invest $8 billion in the remaining company, before talks between the two ended.
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AMD shares fall premarket after CEO Ruiz steps down, weak 2nd-quarter report
SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. fell at the market open Friday, a day after the chip maker reported the departure of Chief Executive Hector Ruiz and reported a wider second-quarter loss than analysts expected.
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Microsoft online business flags despite overall revenue rise
Microsoft's revenue rose 18 percent for both its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and year, but the company's Online Services Business (OSB), under scrutiny due to heated negotiations to purchase Yahoo's search business , continues to falter.
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Market falls at the open on Google, Microsoft
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Stocks fell at the open on Friday as disappointing earnings from tech bellwethers Google and Microsoft overshadowed a smaller-than-expected loss from Citigroup.
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Today in Java-related Internet controversy
Submitted by Josh Fruhlinger on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 06:20. Tags: Nobody cares about desktop Java because Sun botched the Java UI so utterly and comprehensively when the language was first released.
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Wall Street opens lower on earnings reports
Wall Street is down in early trading after disappointing results from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. offset a more upbeat quarterly report from Citigroup Inc.
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Linux desktop security: It's a matter of process and architecture
Linux is better than Windows at security, but the reasons are not rocket science.
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