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The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Openwave Systems, EV Energy Partners, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, ARM Holdings, and VIVUS. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Central European Distribution, Seattle Genetics, A123 Systems, Skyworks Solutions, and Fushi Copperweld.

The biography of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs has sold 379,000 copies in the United States in its first week.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Openwave Systems, GTX, Skullcandy, EV Energy Partners, and Arris Group. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Keynote Systems, Entropic Communications, Glu Mobile, and Skyworks Solutions.

A number of parents are helping their underage children to sign up on Facebook by assisting them in lying about their age, a new survey has found.

Qualcomm shares jumped as much as 9.2 percent Thursday, a day after the designer of mobile-phone chips estimated next year’s revenue could reach as high as $19 billion.

HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone maker, is set to debut three new devices in the next week, the HTC Titan, HTC Vivid and the HTC Rezound. All three have distinctive characteristics and are really meant for three different types of customers, not a bad strategy with the shopping season closing in

A new Nielsen study reveals that Android is still the dominant smartphone operating system in the U.S., followed closely by Apple iOS. Apple, however, retained its crown as the top hardware manufacturer.

Nightwing will join the cast of “Batman: Arkham City,” in new down loadable content released Nov. 2. Nightwing is the older version of Batman’s first sidekick, Dick Grayson, when he tired of being Robin and went solo.

UBS has updated its Tech 10 portfolio by adding semi-packaging/assembly equipment provider ASM Technologies as a least preferred stock.

A lot of parents keep their under-aged kids off Facebook, but some still encourage and help their 12-year-olds create accounts. A new study surveying parents found that more than half (55 percent) of them were aware of their 12-year-old's accounts.

Internet giant Google expects India's Internet growth to be driven by mobile users, predicting that they will form the majority of new Internet users in the country as low-priced smartphones become available.

Corporations are booking huge third-quarter profits and sitting on gargantuan piles of cash -- and nothing could be less important.

Microsoft Corp. said hackers exploited a previously unknown bug in its Windows operating system to infect computers with the Duqu virus, which some security experts say could be the next big cyber threat.

Microsoft Corp said hackers exploited a previously unknown bug in its Windows operating system to infect computers with the Duqu virus, which some security experts say could be the next big cyber threat.

Bill Gates dismisses criticisms from Steve Jobs and talks about the original Macintosh computer.

South Africa's Allied Technologies Ltd is in talks to pay up to $60 million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony, according to a person familiar with the matter, to help revive its struggling business in fast-growing east Africa.

Yahoo buys Interlick, an online ad technology company, while searching for a new CEO.

Samsung and HTC lead the U.S. in smartphone sales. Here's how their newest devices compare.

Akamai Technologies President David Kenny, who quit last week, said he has no plans to become the next CEO of Yahoo.

Apple unveiled its much-awaited iPhone successor on Oct. 4 calling it iPhone 4S.

Nobody would ask who the top five men are in U.S. technology because their ranks fill the executive suites at Intel, Apple, Texas Instruments, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Motorola Mobility. But finding the women is harder because there are fewer, especially at the CEO level, where they can really influence the company and the industry.