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Microsoft CFO to leave, look for bigger job

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:54:12 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company.

EReaders, price war weigh on Barnes, Borders

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:50:00 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. booksellers Barnes & Noble Inc and Borders Group Inc will pay a price for coming late to market with electronic book readers, analysts said.

Privately held Facebook sets up dual-class stock

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:33:11 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said on Tuesday.

Filmed concerts come to iTunes in Live Nation deal

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:26:45 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple iTunes on Tuesday began featuring downloads of live concerts by about 20 artists who are promoted by Live Nation.

Google to put ancient Iraq museum collection online

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:46 GMT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artifacts at Iraq's National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq.

Microsoft, News Corp weigh Web pact: source

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:19:15 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:07:25 GMT

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday.

"Jail broken" iPhones hacked by new virus

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:18:23 GMT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.

"Jail broken" iPhones hacked by new virus

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:52 GMT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.

AT&T offers pay by day, week, month data options

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:38 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc unveiled on Monday an offering that lets customers using its network for Web-surfing on laptop computers or netbooks avoid the obligation to sign a two-year contract with the operator.

Google buying display advertising startup

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:13:25 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft, News Corp weigh web pact: source

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:10 GMT

Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:53:47 GMT

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.

Tweets or bleats? Tool measures importance on Twitter

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:04:59 GMT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - You've got followers and post regularly, but ever wondered how popular you are on Twitter? An online tool that evaluates "tweets" can tell.

eBay says fixes search glitch on website

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:55:27 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - eBay Inc said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day.

Barnes & Noble says Nook sold out before holidays

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:46 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:30:52 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:04:59 GMT

BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.

Chinese cyber-spying seen growing against U.S.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:03:59 GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.

Sony to launch online entertainment service in 2010

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:02:38 GMT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Friday that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will be launched next year.

Smartphone growth to continue strong in 2010

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:08:06 GMT

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.

AOL shows worst not over for media job cuts

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:20:31 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:54:51 GMT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web.

Microsoft says Windows 7 sales strong

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:33 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system.

AOL to cut one-third of workforce

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:18:35 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of the Internet company's planned spin-off from Time Warner Inc.