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SAN FRANCISCO - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his ...

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has a 51 2 percent stake in dealership chain AutoNation Inc., according to a disclosure filed Monday, July 21, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

July 23, 2008 A week after Microsoft released financial earnings dragged down by its online services group, the head of its online operations, Kevin Johnson, has taken a new job at Juniper Networks, according ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

App stores opening in many domains... Microsoft Corp. will let independent developers sell video games for the Xbox 360 console - and keep most of the profits - beginning this holiday season, the company said ...

Business software maker VMware Inc issued a revenue outlook on Tuesday that fell far short of expectations, saying customers were delaying purchases or opting for smaller and shorter contracts due to a weak ...

Sydney - July 23, 2008 -- Open Text Corporation , a global leader in enterprise content management , has announced that its Enterprise Library Services offering has received the Certified for Windows Server ...

Microsoft Corporation F4Q08 Earnings Call July 17, 2008 5:30 pm ET Executives Christopher P. Liddell - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance and Administration Analysts Sara Friar - Goldman ...

Across the street from the Space Needle and Paul Allen's tribute to Jimi Hendrix and rock music, Allen's old friend Bill Gates is building his headquarters for charitable giving, something sure to become ...

With all eyes on the state of the economy, IBM delivered a strong quarter while Google and Microsoft raised slowdown fears.

Puget Sound Business Journal The investment firm that handles Bill Gates' investments doesn't like a proposed offer by Waste Management Inc.

Intel kicked off the technology earnings season with positive surprises earlier last week but Thursday, the keg seemed to run dry early at the party and things turned grim.

Icahn's Yahoo Victory; XM Gains Listeners; Gloomy Economic Outlook; Crude Gains on Tropical/Political Storms; Hasbro Beats Expectations; Corn Cut Down; Goldman Banker Summoned by Paulson; Union Asks Citi to ...

Carolyn Gudmundson, a former Microsoft Corp. manager who admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, was sentenced Friday to 22 months in prison.

I have been watching E3 2008 for a couple of reasons this year. The first is because I am a casual gamer and E3 is the grand-daddy of all video gaming conventions and let's face it, there is nothing great on TV ...

Yahoo Inc. on Monday said it reached an agreement with dissident shareholder Carl Icahn, sidestepping an all-out battle for the Internet company and ending a proxy fight.

Well, another month's gone by, and I see that the Nintendo Wii system is still the number-one selling console in the United States.

In a rare slip for Google Inc , Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp gained share as Google lost ground in the Web search market in June, industry data released on Friday shows.

We'll see if Google shares get clipped as badly in today's trading as they did after hours yesterday so far it looks like justice may be a bit less severe.

GOOGLE Inc and Microsoft Corp slid in European trading yesterday after reporting profit below analysts' estimates, signaling that the slowing economy may be weighing on demand for computer-related products.