(Updated with more context, comments from COO Turner, closing share price, in the first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh through 10th paragraphs.) SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Apple Inc. (AAPL) recently asked Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to stop running television commercials that suggest its ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover. "Why aren't women coming to her defense?" they asked. "Why are the media being so rough on ...Read More
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I'm taking some notes as we go.
The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but won't specify how much and that's ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table. Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating software, including Motorola ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networkingcompany valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, isgenerating sales of more than $4 million a year. The revenue comes from companies that pay to use Twitterdata, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said today ...Read More
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force. Gov. Beverly Perdue and the software giant announced Thursday in Charlotte ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise ...Read More
Google Inc.'s new Chrome operating system, which is designed to bypass computer hard drives and work totally by way of an Internet connection, got its first public preview Thursday. The system, due out about a year from now, could eventually pose ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell Inc. says its latest quarterly profit dropped 54 percent as the company battles a slump has caused it to lose its ranking as the world's No. 2 personal computer maker. Rivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and Acer Inc. have ...Read More
Google Inc. said the first devices running its new Chrome operating system will be available by the end of 2010, as the company gave the first public peek of software that Google hopes will drive usage of Internet applications that ...Read More
Dell Inc.'s quarterly profit dropped 54% despite recent signs of recovery in the technology sector, raising questions about the personal-computer maker's strategy of focusing on profitability at the expense of market share. The results, which also showed a 15% decline in ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO—A key element of Dell Inc.'s turnaround strategy has been a vow not to cut prices as aggressively as rivals just to keep market share. The tactic has allowed competitors such as Acer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to steal ...Read More
Microsoft Corp. said today that Windows 7 has sold twice as many units as any other Microsoft operating system in the same time period. During its annual shareholders' meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer also dismissed market share gains by Apple Inc.'s ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs — more than a third of its work force — as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage. Major job cuts ...Read More
(AP) -- Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.
Google set the late 2010 target date Thursday ...Read More
Google showed off an update of its forthcoming Chrome OS operating system at its headquarters in Silicon Valley today. The whole point of the operating system -- meant for simple computers and launching in about a year -- is that it's ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information ...Read More
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn't such a huge deal but it's definitely worth mention. Twitter's prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been "What are ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage.
Major ...Read More
* CEO says Windows 7 sales double previous versions* No actual sales figures releasedLOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O)Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows7 were running at twice the level of any previous ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - Contained in the nearly 2,000-page House healthcare bill is a little-noticed provision -- worth $300 million to California -- that would increase federal Medicare payments to doctors in a wide swath of the state in response ...Read More
