Microsoft to buy back another 40 billion dollars in stock September 22, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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US computer software giant Microsoft announced Monday that it would buy back another 40 billion dollars of its shares. | |
Satellite phone company Iridium bought for 591 mln dlrs September 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Satellite phone company Iridium Holdings is being purchased for 591 million dollars by a private equity group, the companies said Tuesday. | |
SKorea semiconductor exports fall October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
South Korea, the world's top memory chip producer, suffered a drop in semiconductor exports for a third straight month in September amid a market glut and a slow US economy, data showed Sunday. | |
Samsung offers to buy SanDisk September 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
South Korea-based Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it is offering to buy US flash-memory titan SanDisk for 5.8 billion dollars. | |
Microsoft revamps executive pay September 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Microsoft is changing the way it compensates its top executives, but details on the new plan were scant Thursday. | |
 Google postpones Yahoo online ad deal October 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Google said it is postponing a planned online advertising tie-up with Yahoo to allow more time for US anti-trust regulators to consider the ramifications of the deal. | |
 Oracle to sell computer hardware for first time September 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Oracle Corp. is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software. | |
 Judge: Microsoft doesn't owe Alcatel-Lucent $1.5B September 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled Thursday, in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent ... | |
Ex-McAfee executive clear of illegal option dating October 04, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A jury on Friday acquitted the former top lawyer at computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. of illegally tampering with his stock option grants to boost his pay package. | |
 Amazon's Google phone alliance ramps up attack on iTunes September 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Internet retail titan Amazon has ramped up its attack on Apple's iTunes by having links to its MP3 online music and movie store built into a "Google phone" due out next month. | |
 Diller: IAC 'extremely lucky' with split timing October 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Barry Diller is feeling very lucky right now. The consummate deal maker split his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, into five publicly traded companies in late August - and not a moment ... | |
 US financial meltdown tests patience of tech startup investors September 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The US financial sector meltdown is a mixed blessing for technology startups, making them seem solid bets in a shaky market but threatening long waits for investors accustomed to quick returns. | |
Yahoo board approves new talks with AOL: report September 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors, which now includes one-time nemesis Carl Icahn, has approved new talks with Time Warner Inc. on a possible merger with America Online, a news report said Wednesday. | |
WTO probes Japanese tariff on Hynix computer chips September 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The World Trade Organization will examine whether Japan is complying with a ruling against its punitive import charge on South Korean computer chips. | |
EBay cuts 10 percent of workforce October 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Online auction giant eBay Inc. announced on Monday that it was cutting 1,000 permanent employees and several hundred temporary workers, about 10 percent of its global workforce. | |
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