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Microsoft 4Q profit rises 7 percent
Jul 19 2007 11:38PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Windows Vista attracted most of the hype, but Office 2007 was the sleeper hit that bolstered Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter results, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of repairing defective video game consoles.
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Microsoft 4Q profit rises 7 percent
Jul 19 2007 11:38PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Windows Vista attracted most of the hype, but Office 2007 was the sleeper hit that bolstered Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter results, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of repairing defective video game consoles.
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Google's 2Q profit lets down investors
Jul 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize its long-term ambitions is more important to them than meeting the earnings expectations of shortsighted investors. Just in case anyone forgot, the company punctuated the point with its second-quarter results.
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Google's 2Q profit lets down investors
Jul 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize its long-term ambitions is more important to them than meeting the earnings expectations of shortsighted investors. Just in case anyone forgot, the company punctuated the point with its second-quarter results.
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Google's 2Q profit lets down investors
Jul 19 2007 11:29PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always told Wall Street that positioning the Internet search leader to realize its long-term ambitions is more important to them than meeting the earnings expectations of shortsighted investors. Just in case anyone forgot, the company punctuated the point with its second-quarter results.
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Review: Playing the iPhone market
Jul 19 2007 9:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With lines snaking around Apple stores and hype in overdrive, the iPhone seemed like a good investment _ not for keeping but for reselling.
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Review: Playing the iPhone market
Jul 19 2007 9:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - With lines snaking around Apple stores and hype in overdrive, the iPhone seemed like a good investment _ not for keeping but for reselling.
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EU OKs German online search-engine grant
Jul 19 2007 8:51PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union on Thursday authorized Germany to give $165 million for research on Internet search-engine technologies that could someday challenge U.S. search giant Google Inc.
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Facebook buys small startup Parakey
Jul 19 2007 8:28PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Facebook Inc., the owner of the Internet's second most popular social networking site, said Thursday that it bought Parakey, a startup run by two of the engineers that helped build Firefox's popular Web browser.
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Swedish woman gets superfast Internet
Jul 19 2007 7:30PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
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Study: 1 in 25 youths asked for sex pics
Jul 19 2007 7:29PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Four percent of American youths online have been asked to send a sexually explicit photo of themselves over the Internet, researchers say in a new study.
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Computer program can't lose at checkers
Jul 19 2007 7:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years.
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Sprint, Clearwire team up on new network
Jul 19 2007 4:06PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Almost a year after Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it would develop a mobile broadband network using WiMax technology, the wireless provider said Thursday it was teaming up with competing provider Clearwire Corp. to help build it.
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AMD posts 2Q loss
Jul 19 2007 3:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. reported a loss in the second quarter as heavy acquisition costs and lower microprocessor prices overshadowed rising chip sales.
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IBM's 2Q earnings up 12 pct.
Jul 19 2007 3:32PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Already on a tear lately, shares of International Business Machines Corp. got another bounce after the technology company reported a 12 percent jump in quarterly earnings and improved its outlook for the rest of the year.
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LG Electronics posts 2Q profit
Jul 19 2007 2:42PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - LG Electronics Inc., South Korea's largest maker of consumer appliances and a major producer of cell phone handsets, said Thursday it swung to a profit in the second quarter on strong sales of appliances and premium mobile phones.
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SAP 2Q profit rises 8 percent
Jul 19 2007 1:16PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Business software maker SAP AG said Thursday that its second-quarter profit grew 8 percent, citing market share gains and strong sales growth in all three major markets _ Europe, Asia and the United States.
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Congress eyes Google-DoubleClick deal
Jul 19 2007 11:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress plans to scrutinize Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. to gauge the potential impacts on consumer privacy and competition in the online advertising business.
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Congress eyes Google-DoubleClick deal
Jul 19 2007 11:34AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress plans to scrutinize Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. to gauge the potential impacts on consumer privacy and competition in the online advertising business.
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Duke: iPhone may be disrupting network
Jul 19 2007 6:44AM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.
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