Twitter buys patents, seals licensing pact with IBM
Twitter Inc has bought 900 patents and signed a cross-licensing agreement with IBM, making peace with Big Blue and bulking up on its intellectual property portfolio as it takes on...
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Apple’s China moment still frustratingly out of reach
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc may have to wait a little longer for its watershed moment in China. A disappointing March-quarter revenue forecast, coupled with surprisingly weak holiday iPhone...
Amazon third-quarter sales bode well for holidays
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc posted a narrower quarterly loss and grew sales by a better-than-expected 24 percent on Thursday as it expanded aggressively at home and made inroads overseas, sending...
IBM’s China-driven slump sparks executive shakeup
(Reuters) - IBM Corp has reassigned the head of its growth markets unit, a source with knowledge of the move said, after a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly hardware sales...
Dell’s quarterly profit plummets amid buyout brawl
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc, the PC maker embroiled in a takeover battle between its founding CEO and activist investor Carl Icahn, on Thursday reported a 72 percent slide...
Icahn says bigger buybacks can drive Apple shares to $700
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn said he has amassed a "large position" in Apple Inc and believes the stock could be worth as much as $700...
The desktop gets a makeover, courtesy of Apple
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc, known for its bold experiments with computer design, has come up with a radically re-imagined Mac Pro that departs from the venerable, boxy design...
Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin steps down
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Andy Rubin, the architect of Android, the world's top-selling mobile operating system, has decided to step down as Google Inc combines mobile software divisions under one...
Michael Dell coughs up $750 million cash to buy out Dell
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Michael Dell and his investment firm are ponying up $750 million in cash toward the $24.4 billion purchase of Dell Inc to help bankroll the largest...
Facebook helps FBI bust cybercriminals blamed for $850 million losses
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the...