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New York, Nov 10 Satyam Computer Services Ltd., the company at the centre of India's biggest corporate-fraud inquiry, said U.S. lawsuits filed against it should be dismissed because its home country is the proper place for the litigation.

Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first month on the market without needing any security fixes.

Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

Photograph of Adobe logo. Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce.

Nov. 10 - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 could be the biggest entertainment success of the holiday season.

Apple Inc's phoenix-like rise from the ashes has propelled its market value to $180 billion, raising the possibility that it could challenge Microsoft Corp for the technology crown.

Business software and services provider Compuware has completed its $295 million acquisition of a company that manages, tests and measures the performance of corporate Web sites and mobile applications.

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned a few weeks ago that the M&A spigot is now back on at the search giant, he wasn't talking about a trickle.

Microsoft is emphasizing the potentially money-saving features of Exchange 2010, the latest revamp of its e-mail application officially released Monday at its TechEd European customer conference in Berlin.

In this June 26, 2007 file photo, the exterior of Oracle Corp. headquarters in Redwood City, Calif.

Nov. 9 -- Sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.'s "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," to be released tomorrow, may break the all-time video-game sales record set last year by Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s "Grand Theft Auto 4," according to some analysts.

EA Acquires Playfish For Up To $400 Million Nov. 9, 2009, 9:51 AM 898 Electronic Arts has acquired Facebook games-maker Playfish for up to $400 Million.

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will buy some assets of SourceGear LLC that will bolster its software design products.

I nfosys BPO, the back-office unit of IT firm Infosys Technologies, on Monday said it would hire 1,500-2,000 people by the end of the current fiscal.

AFP/Getty Images Jason Goldfarb leaves Manhattan Federal Court after being arrested along with 13 others on insider trading Wed Nov 4, 1:19 pm ET WASHINGTON The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Wednesday said it barred a former registered representative based in California after he took part in insider trading earlier this year.

A number of iPhones in Australia have reportedly been infected by a worm that replaces the background wallpaper with an image of 80's pop icon Rick Astley.

More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy's new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers.

Friday, November 06, 2009 10:30 AM PST Shortly after European regulators opened an antitrust probe into Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, SAP CEO Leo Apotheker wrote Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, asking for a meeting to discuss the merger and "other open issues" between the vendors, according to a Wall Street Journal editorial published ...

Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division.

JDA Software Group on Friday announced plans to acquire supply-chain management competitor i2 Technologies for a net purchase price of approximately US$396 million.