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VMware's strong 3Q impresses Wall Street
Oct 24 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Geopolitical instability, a looming economic slowdown, competition from startups and a rivalry with the world's largest software company haven't dampened Wall Street's enthusiasm for newly public VMware Inc.
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VMware's strong 3Q impresses Wall Street
Oct 24 2007 11:59PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Geopolitical instability, a looming economic slowdown, competition from startups and a rivalry with the world's largest software company haven't dampened Wall Street's enthusiasm for newly public VMware Inc.
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Microsoft deal values Facebook at $15B
Oct 24 2007 11:47PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. _ the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
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Microsoft deal values Facebook at $15B
Oct 24 2007 11:47PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It's hard to determine what's more surprising about Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc. _ the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
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Intel opening new chip plant in Arizona
Oct 24 2007 11:44PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In the latest display of its manufacturing might, Intel Corp. is opening a new $3 billion factory in Arizona, widening its lead over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in the industry's switch to a new chip-making technique.
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Intel to pay $250M in Transmeta truce
Oct 24 2007 8:04PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Intel Corp. has agreed to pay $250 million over five years to Transmeta Corp. to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit over chip designs and power management technology, the two companies said Wednesday.
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Intel to pay $250M in Transmeta truce
Oct 24 2007 8:04PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Intel Corp. has agreed to pay $250 million over five years to Transmeta Corp. to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit over chip designs and power management technology, the two companies said Wednesday.
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BlackBerries get Facebook software
Oct 24 2007 4:39PM (CT)
TORONTO (AP) - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. announced Wednesday it has launched software that will make it easier for Facebook users to use the popular social networking site.
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Study: Parents more ambivalent about Net
Oct 24 2007 3:54PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Parents have become more ambivalent about the Internet, with a new study finding fewer of them considering it good for their children.
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Motorola hopes new items brighten future
Oct 24 2007 2:34PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - With a sleek design and an even sleeker advertising campaign, Motorola Inc. is banking on its new Razr2 cell phone to pump up anemic sales and provide a rosier future after a yearlong slump punctuated by back-to-back losses.
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Review: E-mail aggregator still clunky
Oct 24 2007 1:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - It sounded like a dream come true for someone with dozens of e-mail and social-networking accounts: A free Web service called Fuser that lets you check all of your messages from one central location.
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Qualcomm launches dual-3G laptop chip
Oct 24 2007 11:45AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Qualcomm Inc. on Wednesday launched a chip that will make it easier to build laptops compatible with the two dominant cellular broadband technologies in the United States.
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Municipal Wi-Fi spending estimates down
Oct 24 2007 11:38AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A leading industry analyst on municipal wireless projects is revising its 2007 spending estimates as cities find their projects costing more and drawing less interest from residential customers than expected.
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Dolans lose bid to privatize Cablevision
Oct 24 2007 11:33AM (CT)
BETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) - Shareholders of Cablevision Systems Corp. rejected on Wednesday a $10.6 billion bid by the company's controlling shareholders, the Dolan family, to take the New York-area cable TV provider private.
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Dolans lose bid to privatize Cablevision
Oct 24 2007 11:33AM (CT)
BETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) - Shareholders of Cablevision Systems Corp. rejected on Wednesday a $10.6 billion bid by the company's controlling shareholders, the Dolan family, to take the New York-area cable TV provider private.
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Insider domain name snatching probed
Oct 24 2007 10:51AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency is investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an individual or business can register them.
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Microsoft ends European Union appeals
Oct 24 2007 9:00AM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has withdrawn the two remaining legal challenges to an EU antitrust order that it now says it will obey.
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Amazon.com 3Q profit skyrockets
Oct 24 2007 8:49AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. made more money in the third quarter than Wall Street had expected, but investors must have been looking for perfection.
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Cell phone message warns train gropers
Oct 24 2007 7:24AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Did you just grope me? Shall we head to the police? That's the message women are flashing on their cell phones with a popular program designed to ward off wandering hands in Japan's congested commuter trains.
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MySpace, HarperCollins collaborate on book
Oct 24 2007 2:47AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - MySpace is getting into the book business. The online social network, an increasingly popular venue for authors, booksellers and publishers, is collaborating with a children's imprint of HarperCollins on an environmental handbook coming out April 22, Earth Day.
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