Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
Read Investors play the market for hot video games
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AFP - Indian mobile phone giant Reliance Communications said Wednesday the deadline for talks that could lead to a blockbuster merger with Africa's largest cellular firm MTN had been extended.
Read Reliance and MTN extend tie-up talks
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AP - More than a year after they were introduced, federal rules intended to keep cell phone towers operating during natural disasters remain in limbo.
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Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AP - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," announced Tuesday it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D movies.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic
Arts Inc said on Tuesday it has complied with the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission's request for additional information
related to its takeover offer for rival Take-Two Interactive
Software .
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AFP - Yahoo's stock price jumped nearly 12 percent after Microsoft said Monday it is willing to reopen talks on a "major transaction" with Yahoo if the Internet giant replaces its board of directors.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
Read Microsoft's cloud forms
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Shares of VMware Inc. plunged 25 percent Tuesday after the software maker replaced co-founder and CEO Diane Greene and warned that revenue would fall short of prior estimates.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:15 am, Over one day old
AP - Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game.
Read Facebook could see a standoff over Scrabble
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