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MID-DAY UPDATE: Bernanke: Too big to fail?

Sep 2, 2010
...Shut 'em down Is high unemployment here to stay? Retailers show surprisingly solid sales Flash crash: SEC suspects "quote stuffing" and "sub-...

Google to debut Chrome store for web apps

Aug 18, 2010
This is interesting and potentially very significant. At a gaming conference in Cologne, Germany, Google detailed plans to launch a store for...

MID-DAY UPDATE: Scandal at Hewlett-Packard...

Aug 9, 2010
... Where does the company go from here? Microsoft's "http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/09/am-microsoft-fixing-glitches-in-...

No need for colleges in five years says Bill Gates

Aug 6, 2010
I guess a dude who dropped out of Harvard and became the richest person on the planet couldn't be expected to strenuously fight for the campus...

Eyeball video game controls. For when any kind of motion is simply too taxing.

Aug 4, 2010
Microsoft's Kinect system is coming soon. It'll be great for when you simply can't be bothered to use a controller. But what if physical movement...

Microsoft issues emergency patch

Aug 3, 2010
This was in order to address an issue so severe that it couldn't wait for Patch Tuesday, the monthly release of various security patches. I'll...

Microsoft wants employees to build Windows 7 Phone apps in their spare time

Jul 23, 2010
Yesterday, we brought news of all Microsoft employees being given free Windows 7 Phones when the late entry to the smart phone war debuts later...

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Suspect in Russian spy case worked at Microsoft

Jul 14, 2010
So did he somehow infiltrate and doom the Kin project? Apparently not. Alexey Karetnikov was apparently a low level software tester at Microsoft...

Microsoft paying developers to build apps for Windows Phone 7

Jul 14, 2010
Microsoft is getting ready to make a big push in mobile but it obviously isn't going to have very many apps at the time of launch. Nowhere near...

Microsoft Office 2010 sales results "a bit disappointing"

Jul 14, 2010
This according to a report by research group NPD. It's kind of a mixed bag report, really, nothing apocalyptic for MSFT. But it does get at a...