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Huawei Keeping an Open Mind on Acquisition of Nokia

Posted: June 18, 2013 at 1:47 pm

In comments just before Chinese telecom firm Huawei introduces its new high-end smartphone, the Ascend P6, the company would consider an acquisition of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) to help ...
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Deutsche Bank Rebalances Tech 8 Basket with Top New Stocks to Buy

Posted: June 18, 2013 at 8:30 am

Like many firms on Wall Street, technology is a major theme for the balance of the year. Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) launched its “tech enduring eight” basket of stocks to ...
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Tech and Online Companies Disclose NSA and Government Security Requests

Posted: June 17, 2013 at 10:10 am

Now that the news behind PRISM has scared millions of consumers about privacy issues, companies are releasing figures covering how many requests local, state and federal governmental agencies have made. The ...
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Apple Receives Nearly 5,000 Requests for Data from Law Enforcement

Posted: June 17, 2013 at 3:38 am

Why did one of the world's largest tech companies take so long? In another in several announcements from large tech companies about government demands for private information about customers and ...
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Microsoft Mini-Stores in Best Buy to Push Windows 8

Posted: June 14, 2013 at 6:13 am

Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have decided to set a deal for the world's largest software company to have a store within a store, ...
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Google’s Takes Nearly a Third of Global Digital Ad Revenues

Posted: June 13, 2013 at 4:49 pm

The total amount spent on digital advertising in 2012 was just more than $104 billion. That total is expected to grow to $116.8 billion in 2013, and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Windows Stores Inside Best Buy, Chasing Apple and Samsung

Posted: June 13, 2013 at 1:02 pm

Sometimes copying a successful proven strategy is far more rewarding than the risks of trying something new that has never been seen before. Remember how Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) did ...
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Among Actively Traded Stock Market Shares, Short Interest Wanes

Posted: June 12, 2013 at 7:20 am

We have tracked the key short interest changes as of May 31 in the following large cap stock market shares: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank ...
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Battle Between Xbox One and PS4 Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Posted: June 12, 2013 at 6:45 am

The fight over whether the new Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One video game console or the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) PS4 is the better product came less than minutes ...
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Xbox One Could Ultimately Harm PC and Windows 8 Sales

Posted: June 11, 2013 at 11:00 am

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has been a magic stock in 2013, despite the woes of Windows 8. A new update is going to fix many of the missteps of the ...
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The Best Cities for High-Tech Jobs

Posted: June 11, 2013 at 6:50 am

One in every five jobs in the United States required a high level of knowledge in science, technology, engineering or math as of 2011. Since the industrial revolution, the share ...
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In Xbox One Price War with Sony PS4, Both Companies Could Lose Money

Posted: June 11, 2013 at 5:01 am

In the fight for market share in the game console business, the key ingredient to success may be what it costs to make and market Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox ...
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Microsoft Alliance with FBI: A Model for Fighting Cybercrime

Posted: June 6, 2013 at 6:25 am

The FBI and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), working together, took down a network that has committed a series of cyber frauds that have cost banks $500 million. The "Citadel" network, ...
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Financial New Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 6, 2013 at 6:24 am

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the FBI investigate a cyber crime group. (Reuters) PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) will buy SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) for $2.2 billion. (Reuters) Edmunds.com begins ...
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Smartphones Top 50% Mark in U.S.: Pew Research

Posted: June 5, 2013 at 2:38 pm

A combined 56% of Americans now own a smartphone according to the latest “Internet and American Life Project” at Pew Research Center. Some 91% of all Americans own a cell ...
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