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Microsoft Corporation

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1:21pm ET
Investing

Microsoft Goes Into Huge Touch Display Market

Large computer screens are not exactly new.  Still, it is amazing just how big some of these can get.  Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) once demonstrated a large tabletop touchscreen PC unit, and…

Jon C. Ogg
11:52am ET
Companies and Brands

Nokia Goes After Pre-Kindergarten Market

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) hit a new 52-week low of $2.00 last Thursday and have continued to slide since then. Shares are down -8% just before noon this morning, even…

Paul Ausick
6:15am ET
Telecom & Wireless

Amazon to Launch a Smartphone?

Bloomberg reports that Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may launch a smartphone, which would mean the world’s largest e-commerce company would join the mobile phone sector just after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)…

Douglas A. McIntyre
2:40pm ET
Telecom & Wireless

How Low Can Nokia Go?

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) set a new 52-week low of $2.00 today. The one-time leader in sales of mobile phones did not have any news, but the company’s prospects are…

Paul Ausick
6:05am ET
Media

Media Digest (7/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Bob Diamond, CEO of Barclays (NYSE: BCS), quits. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) takes a $6.2 billion write-off, primarily due to its buyout of aQuantive. (Reuters) The U.S. probe begins on whether Chesapeake…

Douglas A. McIntyre
3:01pm ET
Telecom & Wireless

Samsung Leads Smartphone Market

The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market share. Apple…

Paul Ausick
1:44pm ET
Investing

Coming Soon — Mozilla’s Smartphone OS

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known until now…

Paul Ausick
6:34am ET
Investing

Will Microsoft Take Over RIM?

Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) board may have no other choice than to make a last-ditch effort to save the company through an alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Reuters reports. Microsoft could…

Douglas A. McIntyre
6:30am ET
Investing

What’s Important in the Financial World (6/29/2012)

In another sign that the recession in the European Union has spread well beyond the weakest nations, retail sales fell 1.1% in Germany in May. The Federal Statistics Bureau issued a report that showed: According…

Douglas A. McIntyre
6:12am ET
Media

Media Digest (6/29/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

EU leaders set a tentative plan to recapitalize troubled banks directly with funds meant to be loaned for sovereign bailouts. (Reuters) Stockton, Calif., files for bankruptcy. (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM)…

Douglas A. McIntyre
6:21am ET
Telecom & Wireless

Tablet PCs, Car Sales and TV Channels

If Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is fortunate, its new Nexus 7 tablet will be like a Chrysler automobile. The device is up against Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), with its General Motors (NYSE: GM) type…

Douglas A. McIntyre