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Cellphone market growth raises pricing fears

The global cellphone market is set to grow in the holiday sales-fueled October-to-December quarter, after four quarters of falls, raising fears of pricing battles, analysts said on Friday.

Stock futures signal dip after strong rally

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U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday following the previous session's sharp rally, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.35 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.17 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.09 percent at 6:10 a.m. EDT.
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Samsung upbeat on 2010 after record Q3 profit

Samsung Electronics , the world's top maker of memory chips and LCD screens, gave a robust outlook, signaling bigger players are set to further widen the gap over smaller firms in a tech sector recovery.
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Samsung Q3 profit trebles on memory chips, LCD

Samsung Electronics , the world's top maker of memory chips and LCD screens, reported on Friday record quarterly net profit on a resurgent memory sector and brisk sales of flat screens and mobile phones.
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McAfee revenue misses forecast, shares fall

McAfee Inc , the No. 2 U.S. security software maker, reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street projections as sales to consumers grew at their slowest rate in almost two years.
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Motorola sees better-than-expected Q4 profit

Motorola Inc forecast a higher-than-expected profit for the current quarter, when it will start selling two new Google Android phones in hopes of regaining ground lost to iPhone.
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Verizon's Motorola Droid price and release date confirmed

After weeks of buzz, Verizon Wireless today officially took the wraps off the Droid, a smartphone built by Motorola and powered by Google's Android 2.0 operating system, by confirming the new phone will hit stores on November 6.
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Google drives into navigation market

Google Inc is adding Garmin Ltd and TomTom to its growing list of rivals as the Internet search giant weaves technology for driving directions into new versions of its smartphone software.
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Questions surround ex-AMD CEO's alleged Galleon link

The linking of Advanced Micro Device's former top executive to the largest U.S. insider trading scheme in decades may raise questions about its business practices -- and that of the chipmaking venture, Globalfoundries, that it spun off.
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Google Voice lets users keep phone number

Google Inc has introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to use its Google Voice service without switching to a special phone number, potentially broadening the appeal of the nascent, and controversial, service.
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RadioShack profit misses estimates

RadioShack Corp's quarterly profit missed estimates by one cent on weak demand for its converter boxes, laptop computers and wireless accessories.

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