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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
(photo: AP / Stephen Chernin)
US STOCKS-Wall Street gains with Microsoft; Netflix jumps after the bell
Reuters
* Wall Street rebounds after worst week of 2013 | * Halliburton, Caterpillar rise after comments, results | * Technology shares among day's strongest | * Dow up 0.1 pct, S&P; 500 up 0.5 pct, Nasdaq up 0.9 pct | By Caroline Valetkevitch | NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks climbed on Monday as...
Microsoft Names First Female CFO
The Daily Beast
May 9, 2013 3:36 pm | Amy Hood to oversee $74.5 billion in cash, investments. | Sharefacebooktwittergoogle plusemailprint0 | Microsoft wants to revamp its image--in more than one way, it seems. Amy Hood, 41, succeeds Peter Klein as the company's ...
Microsoft reportedly planning to offer $1 billion to buy Nook unit from Barnes & Noble.
Kansas City Star
Barnes & Noble Inc. jumped the most in a year following a report that Microsoft Corp. is planning to offer $1 billion to buy the Nook Media unit. ...
Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box
All Things Digital
As videogame fans await the unveiling of Microsoft Corp.’s next Xbox, questions about another piece hardware loom for the software giant. | The company has been quietly developing designs for a separate, simpler set-top device for streaming vid...
Microsoft Considers $1 Billion Bid For Nook: Report
mediabistro
Microsoft is considering offering Barnes & Noble $1 billion to buyout the Nook Media business, an asset that the Washington-based technology company already has a 16.8% stake in, according to a report in TechCrunch. Microsoft would redeem some of...
Barnes and Noble shares climb 20% following Microsoft rumours
The Guardian
The American book retailer saw its shares climb following reports Microsoft are considering offer to acquire Nook business | Microsoft acquired its stake in the Nook Media unit just over a year ago in a deal that valued the entire business at $1.7bn....
Microsoft (MSFT) Has Developed Prototypes for TV Set-Top-Box Unit
StreetInsider
Tweet Send to a Friend | Get Alerts MSFT Hot Sheet | Price: $32.89 -0.3% | Overall Analyst Rating: |     NEUTRAL (= Flat) | Dividend Yield: 2.8% | Revenue Growth %: +17.7% | Trade MSFT Now! | Dow Jones reports that Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: M...
Microsoft mulls $1 billion purchase of Nook digital assets
The Examiner
Nook Media, to be clear, is the e-book joint venture between Microsoft and bookseller Barnes and Noble. Nook Media split from the retail arm of Barnes and Noble in October of last year with a $300 million investment by Microsoft, giving the software ...
Science
Twelve standard studant in a college campus in a city of India
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Career options after class 12th Science
Newstrack India
Tweet | Needless to say, 12th is the foundation period for a students career phase which decides the beautiful and strong building in terms of career for the future. The selection of the right course and colleges are the crucial issues for students at the phase and thus the story highlights the ideas about the career option after class 12th science...
Technology
AOL Music Showcase, Stubb's Bar-B-Q, South by Southwest 2011, Austin, Texas, March 17, 2011
(photo: Creative Commons / Jason Persse)
AOL Q1 ad revenues jump, but stock falls
The Times Of India
Online media group AOL on Wednesday reported first-quarter revenue grew on strength in its advertising business, but shares tumbled on concerns that profits were still mostly coming from a shrinking dial-up platform. | "The core issue with this company is can they make content profitable?" said Ben Schachter, an analyst with Macquarie Research. "Wh...



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