(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
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Apple Inc. (AAPL) sued HTC Corp. (HTCXF, 2498.TW), which makes a number of smartphones using Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android mobile software, over alleged patent violations, representing the latest legal salvo in the wireless industry. Apple accused HTC of ...Read More
In this Sept. 9, 2009 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs smiles during introduction at an Apple event in San Francisco. In a statement Tuesday, March 2, 2010, Jobs said, "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented ...Read More
BRUSSELS - Some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal the company struck to settle antitrust action, the European Union said Tuesday. Microsoft Corp. is starting this month ...Read More
The news that is not White House approved... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has never been a big fan of the Tea Party movement. You may remember her saying this last year: REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, APRIL 30, 2009: ...Read More
Senior Intel exec Sean Maloney has had a stroke which will put him on medical leave for some time. Maloney used to run the chip giant's sales and marketing arm but was shifted to joint head of architecture late last year. According ...Read More
NEW YORK -- Thomas Jones helped the New York Jets reach the AFC championship game while running his way to a career year. Now, the leader of the NFL's top-ranked rushing offense is out of a job. The Jets announced Monday that ...Read More
The Jets made it official Monday, announcing that leading rusher Thomas Jones will be released Friday at the start of free agency - a decision that stung several veterans on the team. "I can tell you, it's not going to be ...Read More
Microsoft declined to confirm reports that smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.x will not be upgradable to Windows Phone 7 Series, its new operating system. Microsoft has made a point of enforcing strict hardware requirements for devices that run Windows Phone ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM Corp. has cut hundreds of jobs across a number of divisions. The cuts Monday represent a sliver of the technology company's nearly 400,000 workers worldwide. IBM wouldn't comment. Documents submitted by laid-off workers to the Alliance(at)IBM, a ...Read More
Tennessee transplant and former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. has decided not to challenge unelected incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand for her US Senate seat, sources said tonight.
"I heard from Harold Ford and he has decided not to run," said Assemblyman Vito ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday it was investigating along with local authorities a possible "hazardous material threat" at an Internal Revenue Service building in Farr West, Utah. Spokeswoman Debbie Dujanovic Bertram in ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. said it found more than a dozen serious violations of labor laws or Apple's own rules at its suppliers that needed immediate correction. The findings were outlined in a company report on audits of 102 supplier ...Read More
Joseph P. Kennedy III, the grandson of Robert Kennedy, told the Boston Globe that he will not run for Congress in 2010. Kennedy, 29, who is an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, was widely viewed as a potential contender for the ...Read More
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration's top medical device reviewer is stepping down to take a job in Microsoft's lobbying office. Donna Bea Tillman told staffers in a note she is resigning as director of the office of device evaluation, after 15 ...Read More
The New York Times Company has teamed up with RMG Networks to have some of its digital content displayed on part of the latter's network of out-of-home screens. The partnership is said to bring NYTimes content to some 850 screens, ...Read More
Jake Pavelka, 32, will hand out his final rose (or maybe not!) on Monday's season finale of The Bachelor on ABC. He spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about the last two ladies, Vienna and Tenley, in the running to become his ...Read More
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. will distribute its news to 850 television screens in Dunkin' Donuts coffee shops and other locations in five U.S. cities to promote its brand and help sell subscriptions to the newspaper. The publisher ...Read More
NEW YORK - The main runway at New York's John F. Kennedy International will be closed for four months starting today. Millions of travelers will experience delays, including some not flying anywhere near the Big Apple. With about one-third of JFK's ...Read More
Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long.
Google never expected the response it got. Last month, the small ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. said audits of its suppliers uncovered 17 core violations of its policies, including three cases in which its contractors hired underage workers last year. The Cupertino, Calif., company, in a report posted to its Web site, ...Read More
