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Microsoft reportedly preparing Silverlight-like app framework ahead of Xbox Live update
Engadget
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a new slate of Xbox Live partnerships with Verizon, Comcast, and a host of other content providers. Now, the company has unveiled new details about the code upon which these new apps will run. Sources close to the situation tell GigaOM that the new framework, ...
In this Nov. 27, 2008 file photo shareholders leave the extraordinary general assembly of the UBS bank in Lucerne, Switzerland.
(photo: AP / Keystone, Steffen Schmidt, File)
Market Wrap: Yahoo!, Microsoft at It Again; Being a Millionaire's Getting Expensive!; ADP Says 'More Jobs'; UBS Sheds Two More
StreetInsider
| Market wrap-up for October 5th. | End of the Day: Dow Jones up 131 to 10,939.95; Nasdaq up 55.69 to 2,460.51; S&P; 500 up 20 to 1,144.04 | The following is a brief summary of events moving markets today: | Maybe this time's the charm?: Yahoo! (Nasdaq: ) ripped higher into the close on reports Micro...
Microsoft Announces New Database Consolidation Appliance, Enhances Cloud Offerings
Stockhouse
Customers benefit from increased scale and simplified management in SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure. | REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- | In today's PASS Summit 2011 keynote address, Quentin Clark, corporate vic...
Microsoft Inks Another Android Patent Deal, This Time With Quanta
Crunch
Apple Facebook Google Android Steve Jobs Disrupt Beijing Comment Tweet Microsoft Inks Another Android Patent Deal, This Time With Quanta | Chris Velazco posted 51 mins ago Comments View Author Page I’m on twitter | Chris Velazco is a mobile en...
Microsoft reaches patent agreement with Quanta
Seattle Times
| Microsoft has reached another patent agreement, this time with Quanta Computer, an original design manufacturer (ODM) that designs and manufactures computers that become branded by other companies. | The agreement provides coverage for Quanta's tab...
Best Buy, Microsoft Join FCC in Bid To Boost Broadband
Newsfactor
Best Buy and are among companies partnering with the Federal Communications Commission on a plan to help the 100 million Americans without high-speed Internet service. | The initiative, announced Wednesday by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, aims to ...
IBM office building in a technology park, in Pune, India
WN / Geeta
IBM rises again as its stock passes a declining Microsoft
Ars Technica
| Hot on the heels of Apple passing Exxon Mobil to become the most valuable business in the world, there's another shakeup at a slightly lower level. IBM is the second-largest tech...
A reflection of the Apple logo is seen in the new Apple Store on the eve of its opening in the Louvre museum shopping center, in Paris, Friday Nov. 6, 2009.
AP / Thibault Camus
Apple iOS products bring in more revenue than all Microsoft products combined
The Examiner
| The battle between Apple and Microsoft is probably the oldest tech rivalry and of course many to this day find it interesting when you break it down by the numbers. Asymco&n...;
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Italian Software Maker Contests Microsoft's Purchase of Skype
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| BERLIN -- Reviving arguments that have dogged Microsoft in Europe for nearly two decades, an Italian software maker is asking European officials to block Microsoft's $8.5 billion...
Microsoft bringing Hadoop to Windows Server, Windows Azure
Seattle Times
| Microsoft announced this week it's bringing a version of Hadoop to Windows Server and to the Windows Azure cloud platform, and integrating it with Microsoft's SQL Server data platform. | Hadoop is an open source, large-scale data processing system ...
Microsoft woos frustrated BlackBerry & iOS users with free Windows Phones
Seattle Times
| Microsoft is having cheeky fun -- and hoping to gain some customers -- with giveaway offers of Windows Phones to frustrated BlackBerry and iOS users. | Research In Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry, was scrambling Wednesday to try to end a ...
HP, Microsoft Cheap Despite Doubters, Says Fund Manager
The Street
| "We love it when people talk about dead money because it means people have lost patience," he says of the company. The $69 million fund is down 2.2% since being launched in April 2011. | Trauner says Microsoft is reacting to recent headlines about ...
Science
McDonald's Restaurant
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3 Fast Food Ingredient Secrets
Pakalert Press
Share | Anthony Gucciardi | Activist Post | Most health-conscious individuals avoid fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s at all costs, and for good reason. | Fast food chains often use genetically modified ingredients, artificial sweeteners in sodas, heavy metals across the board, high-fructose corn syrup as a cheap yet deadly sweetener, and...
Technology
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, shares a word with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during a media conference after an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. Germany and France dangled a limited promise of "political support" but no financial aid for debt-burdened Greece at a meeting of European Union leaders Thursday, trying to defuse market fears about the about the future of the euro and Europe's economic unity.
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Infographic: A Startling Look at the Greek Debt Crisis
Business Insider
ForexNewsNow | ForexNewsNow is a major Forex News & Analysis contributor to Business Insider Recent Posts Here's Why The Euro Is Gaining Ground Against The Dollar INFOGRAPHIC: The EU Debt Crisis In Charts ForexNewsNow Forex Indicators: Trading Forex with the RSI IMF: Further Escalation of EU Debt Crisis will Severely Impact Asia FOREX: Euro Rally, ...



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