| 1 | With growth in mobile and servers, respectively, AMD and Intel saw expansion in two different areas key to their business. » |
| 2 |  PC World - Microsoft says that it has more than 300,000 downloads of beta tools for developers creating applications for its Windows Phone 7 app store, which is set to compete with the app-laden marketplaces for the iPhone and Android phones. Yahoo! News: Personal Technology » |
| 3 |  Reuters - Media stocks gained more than the market in early trading on Wednesday ahead of details of a new online TV product announcement expected from Apple Inc later in the day. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 4 | Software giant closes beta test for Intune, a cloud-based services offering that promises enterprise-class system-management tools for midsize firms. » |
| 5 | As it looks to separate Java 7 SDK into two separate releases, Oracle has issued the Java SE 7 and 8 release content to the Java Community Process. » |
| 6 | Online employment sites Elance and oDesk detail some of the hotter IT hiring trends in 2010 and give some predictions for the year ahead. » |
| 7 | All eyes are on Apple ahead of an event next week where the company is widely expected to release a successor to its wildly successful iPad tablet computer. » |
| 8 | PC World - Sony CEO Howard Stringer and Bloomberg have confirmed that the Android-powered PlayStation gaming tablet is real, and coming sometime before the end of 2011. However, with the company's wobbly financial record, product delays, and the incredibly tough competition it faces from the Nintendo 3DS and Apple's iPad, Sony is going to have a hard time selling these tablets. Yahoo! News: Personal Technology » |
| 9 |  PC Magazine - Developer James Laird has extracted and posted the RSA private key behind Apple's AirPort Express, as well as an open-source "ShairPort" solution allowing music can be streamed from iTunes to other devices and services. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 10 | PC Magazine - The Federal Trade Commission is said to be moving ahead with an investigation of Google's influence in the search market, and its possible antitrust implications, according to a report. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 11 |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of the audit committee at Renren Inc has resigned to protect the Chinese social networking company from any possible fallout from accusations of accounting fraud at another company where he is an executive.
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| 12 |  PC World - Mozilla may still be weeks away from automatically upgrading users of its aging Firefox 3.5 browser, but even without the benefit of those additional users its latest browser version continues to blast past Microsoft's competing Internet Explorer 9 in usage. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 13 | Reuters - Lady Gaga's heavily-hyped new album "Born This Way" made its way to the Internet on Wednesday, five days ahead of its official release on May 23. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 14 | AP - Executives from Sony and online marketing firm Epsilon will go before lawmakers on Thursday to try to explain recent data breaches at their companies that have exposed email addresses, credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to millions of consumers. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 15 | AP - Google Inc. will hold its first shareholders meeting since co-founder Larry Page took over as the Internet search leader's CEO. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 16 | NewsFactor - When Apple launched its iPad, many observers speculated that it was only a matter of time before e-readers, with their more limited functionality, would be replaced by the more versatile tablets. But a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that e-reader ownership has recently been growing faster than tablets. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 17 |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - LivingSocial met with banks this week to discuss an IPO of about $1 billion, CNBC reported on Wednesday.
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| 18 | Reuters - Online daily deal site LivingSocial is meeting with banks to discuss an initial public offering of about $1 billion, according to a source familiar the situation. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 19 |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc customers downloaded more than 15 billion applications in the past three years, the company said on Thursday, releasing figures that suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating.
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| 20 |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Videogame maker Electronic Arts has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy PopCap Games, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.
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| 21 | NewsFactor - According to an Experian Hitwise report released Thursday, Google accounted for just more than 66 percent of searches conducted by the 10 million U.S. Internet users sampled during a four-week period last month. Microsoft's Bing-powered searches comprised 28.05 percent of the sample, of which 14.49 percent were from Yahoo Search. Yahoo! News: Internet News » |
| 22 |  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Groupon Inc CEO Andrew Mason, lashing out at what he called "insane" and "hilarious" criticism in the media, defended the daily-deals website's record and growth strategy in a lengthy memo to employees on Thursday.
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| 23 |  LONDON (Reuters) - European film subscription service Lovefilm has signed deals to give its members access to past BBC and ITV television shows including Doctor Who and Prime Suspect, it said ahead of an expected imminent launch of rival Netflix in Britain.
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| 24 |  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians faced a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access Monday, just a week after email and social networking sites were blocked, raising concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections.
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| 25 |  BOSTON (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc, maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software, said revenue growth slowed as sales of its widely used Creative Suite software fell, missing its forecasts, ahead of widely anticipated product launches this quarter.
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| 26 |  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue slide in at least two years, a sign that the social network's sizzling growth may be cooling as it prepares to go public in the biggest ever Internet IPO.
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