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Google users loyal: comScore

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created Aug 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.


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Scripps up sharply on Wall St on surprise profit

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created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US media company EW Scripps Co. reported a surprise quarterly net profit on Monday, despite a 29 percent decline in advertising revenue, sending its shares sharply higher on Wall Street.


Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet (AP)

Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet

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created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking ...


Sprint Nextel to buy Virgin Mobile USA

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created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a $483 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc.


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Samsung Electronics posts 'outstanding' Q2 results

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's leading computer memory chipmaker, on Friday posted what it called "outstanding" second-quarter results due to a recovery in prices and demand.


SKorea fines Qualcomm 208 mln dlrs for unfair trade

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's antitrust watchdog Thursday fined US firm Qualcomm a record 260 billion won (208 million dollars) for violating fair competition rules by abusing its market monopoly.


Economy keeps hurting eBay as 2Q profit falls (AP)

Economy keeps hurting eBay as 2Q profit falls

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The recession continued to hurt eBay Inc. in the second quarter, as earnings and revenue fell amid a sales decline in the main online marketplace, overshadowing growth in the PayPal online payments ...


Asia-Pacific computer sales rebound in Q2: report

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created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personal computer sales in Asia ended two consecutive quarters of contraction to post robust growth in the second quarter of 2009, a report released Monday said.


Nokia posts 66 pct fall in Q2 profits, shares drop

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created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The world's top cell phone maker, Nokia Corp., on Thursday said second-quarter earnings fell 66 percent as the global recession sapped demand. The company scrapped its target to gain market share this year and its ...


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After Bing's first month, Microsoft still No. 3

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created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s redesigned search site has attracted more Web surfers without doing much for the software maker's market share in its first month.


Dell shares dive as PC market still looks rough (AP)

Dell shares dive as PC market still looks rough

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created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dell Inc. said Tuesday that the U.S. personal computer market has reached its low point but that the timing of a global turnaround in the technology industry remains anyone's guess.


New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June

Microsoft posts modest search gains with Bing

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday.


Supporters of the website The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top illegal filesharing websites, demonstrate in Stockholm

Swedish court rules out Pirate Bay retrial

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A Swedish court on Thursday rejected calls for a retrial of four men found guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running filesharing site The Pirate Bay, saying the trial judge was not biased.


Internet ad revenue falls 5 pct in first quarter

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created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Internet advertising revenue is down 5 percent.


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Microsoft ads say search is sick, Bing is the cure

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created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (9) | comments 13

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure.