Apple’s Secret Plan For Its Cash Stash
Apple has $100 billion of cash and a lot of ways to spend it. Add more retail stores? Check. Set up more server farms to...
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Is humanity quietly abandoning a future in space?
WASHINGTON, April 17 – As astronaut Leroy Chiao watches the space shuttles he crewed make their final journeys to become museum pieces, he worries humankind...
New deal brings 600 MGM movies to Android and YouTube
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Google have come to an agreement to offer 600 movies for rent through YouTube and the Google Play marketplace for users in the U.S....
Apple to launch iPad in 21 additional countries this month
Apple announced on Monday that it will launch its wildly popular third-generation iPad tablet in 21 additional countries this month. Beginning on April 20th, the...
Microsoft wins its biggest cloud computing client
(Reuters) – Microsoft announced its biggest-ever customer for cloud computing – software that it hosts on behalf of clients and delivers over the Internet –...
Google stock split helps Page, Brin maintain grip
(Reuters) – Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the world’s No. 1...
Yahoo CEO sketches out new plan to jump-start growth
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson outlined how the Internet pioneer will revive itself by putting in place a new structure to sharpen...
U.S. accuses Apple, publishers of e-book price fixing
(Reuters) – Apple Inc and several major publishers were accused by the U.S. government of conspiring to fix prices of e-books and limit retail price...
Nokia’s U.S. ambitions hit by smartphone bug
(Reuters) – Nokia has found a software bug in its Lumia 900 smartphone, its answer to Apple’s iPhone, and is effectively giving the model away...
Microsoft trumps Amazon, others for AOL patents
(Reuters) – Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc’s patent trove....