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Microsoft and Google financials could surface at trial

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(Reuters) – Microsoft and Google’s Motorola Mobility unit are set to square off on Tuesday at a trial with strategic implications for the smartphone patent

Microsoft’s Windows unit head, once a possible CEO, exits

YoopyaNov 13, 20120

(Reuters) – The executive most widely tipped to be the next chief executive of Microsoft Corp has left the world’s largest software maker barely two

Apple and HTC settle patent disputes

YoopyaNov 12, 20120

Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010. The two firms also

Microsoft demos instant English-Chinese translation

YoopyaNov 12, 20120

Software that can translate spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly has been demonstrated by Microsoft. The software preserves intonation and cadence so the translated

Twitter mistakenly resets passwords of large number of users

YoopyaNov 9, 20120

(Reuters) – Twitter said that it mistakenly reset the passwords of “a large number” of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine

AOL ad sales, strongest in seven years, boost profit

YoopyaNov 7, 20120

(Reuters) – AOL Inc (AOL.N) reported higher-than-expected revenue and profit on the strongest advertising growth the company has seen in seven years. At the same

Apple sells 3 million iPads over first weekend

YoopyaNov 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Apple Inc sold 3 million of its new iPads in the first three days the tablet computers were available, driving optimism for a

Facebook’s Sandberg sells $7.4 million in stock

YoopyaNov 3, 20120

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and two other executives at the social networking company sold millions of dollars worth of stock

Mars rover still sniffing for elusive methane

YoopyaNov 3, 20120

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov 2 – Initial analysis of the atmosphere of Mars from NASA’s rover Curiosity has shown no sign of methane, a gas

China launches trade probes on EU solar products

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – China said on Thursday that it would launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imported European Union solar-grade polysilicon, in the latest instance of tit-for-tat trade