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Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android mobile OS continued to gain market share in the U.S. during the second quarter. But that may not matter. The operating system is free because it is open source....
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Federal officials may consider cuts in food stamp programs that serve 46 million people. (Reuters) Housing prices probably continued to fall in July. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Ford (NYSE: F) to...
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One study after another has demonstrated the income disparity between women and men. Not surprisingly, this gender discrimination carries all the way into America's boardrooms and corporate suites,...
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The Federal Reserve to make a modest number of steps to keep the economy moving higher. (Reuters) Wall St. layoffs, already begun, will hurt morale as the industry tries to recover. (Reuters) As...
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Any good news is rewarded on a day when equities fall nearly 4%. One of yesterday’s bright spots was Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL), which reported second quarter 2012 adjusted EPS of...
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is due with earnings after the closing bell today. The problem is that there was a Bloomberg report that said that HP is set to spin-off its PC business. You have...
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The next round of smartphone patent buying may focus on Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK), the 130-year old photography giant that missed the digital bus. The $12.5 billion acquisition by Google Inc....
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Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) expects the balance of its fiscal year to be difficult financially. The computer firm said the economy is softening. Critics say that the firm’s products are old and ill-suited...
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In the seemingly never-ending round of intellectual property lawsuits over smartphone technology, Taiwan’s HTC Corp. has fired the latest shot. The smartphone maker has filed a complaint with the...
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Game consoles and handheld game players took another shot to the chin today as Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) dropped the price of its Playstation 3 console by $50 on both the $299 160-Gbyte and $349...
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Honestly, isn’t it time for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) to stop using words like ‘supercharge’ when it spends $12.5 billion? Google isn’t a graduate-student garage start-up any longer. The...
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWC) to buy Insight Communications from Carlyle for $3 billion. (Reuters) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) expects holiday sales to be strong. (Reuters) Security experts say hackers...
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It is amazing what a move Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has made over the last decade. Now it carries a new title…. MOST VALUABLE COMPANY, or at least it is fighting for it. Exxon Mobil Corporation...
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Standard & Poor’s may have done the inevitable move of a U.S. credit ratings downgrade and it may have followed with the downgrade of the insurance companies and with many government agencies...
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The Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is the leading platform smartphone platform in among 78.5 million US smartphone owners. The iOS operating system that powers the iPhone...
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