HP exec hints at larger role for webOS
A recent CNBC interview with an HP executive is focusing attention on the company's expected webOS device news, including a possible tablet, on Feb. 9 in San Francisco.
View ArticleIs Facebook's IPO worth $100B?
Facebook may not be having its initial public offering until sometime in 2012 but its potential valuation is already generating a lot of buzz.
View ArticleDDoS attacks against banks raise question: Is this cyberwar?
It's been a month of crippling denial-of-service attacks on websites operated by U.S. banks and financial services firms. A terrorist organization called Al-Qassam takes credit online, but now the...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft could lay out $3 billion to help Dell go private
Microsoft may be planning to invest between $1 billion and $3 billion as part of a leveraged buyout of Dell, according to a report this afternoon from CNBC.
View ArticleGates sticks to company line on tablets, knocks iPad
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates today stuck to the company line on tablets, and disparaged rival Apple's iPad for its lack of a keyboard and its inability to run Office.
View ArticleWindows 8 update: Gates - Windows 8 is about the iPad
Windows 8 is Microsoft's best effort to catch up with Apple and grab tablet sales away from the iPad by including things iPads just don't have, according to Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
View ArticleCisco not looking to kill Microsoft/Skype deal, says Chambers
Cisco doesn't want to kill Microsoft's marriage to Skype -- it just wants a dowry.
View ArticleFailed UTP SIP system shutters Nasdaq trading
Nasdaq's unprecedented trading halt today stemmed from a technical glitch with a core data feed that disseminates market data for Nasdaq-listed securities.
View ArticleTwitter reportedly kicking off roadshow Oct. 25
Twitter reportedly is getting ready to begin its IPO roadshow on Oct. 28 and then begin trading on Nov. 15.
View ArticleIcahn turns up heat on Apple, hints at proxy fight over $150B buyback
Billionaire trading activist and agitator Carl Icahn is turning the heat up on Apple, saying he would "test the waters" with a proxy fight if the company's board doesn't yield to his demand for an...
View ArticleCoast Guard spills the beans on Google's mystery barges
The U.S. Coast Guard has given up what could be a key clue in the tale of two mysterious barges moored on either side of the country.
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook boasts of record iPhone sales in China
Apple CEO Tim Cook's claim today that the company broke iPhone sales records in China during 2013's fourth quarter meant that the firm sold in excess of 10.4 million smartphones in the region, an IDC...
View ArticleReaction: Apple fashions 'brilliant' partnership with IBM for instant...
The business-focused deal between Apple and IBM is "brilliant," one analyst said, noting that Apple now gets into the enterprise through the front door rather than the back.
View ArticleInternet goes ad-free for an hour as Google ad server fails
A Google ad server went down Wednesday morning, leaving many websites without advertising. Sites like Computerworld and CNBC.com were affected.
View ArticleTwitter stock jumps on report that CEO is on way out
After reporting slowing growth and getting passed by Instagram in number of users, Twitter's stock price jumped Tuesday on speculation that CEO Dick Costolo might be leaving the company.
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