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The companies which are expected to see active trade on Thursday are: Microsoft, AT&T, Altera, eBay, Sandisk, Wynn Resorts, Southwest Airlines, Boston Scientific, Capital One Financial, Eli Lilly, Key Corp and Philip Morris International.

Stuxnet was first discovered by the security company VirusBlokAda in June 2010.

Some potential buyers of Yahoo Inc are balking at the Internet company's demands for confidentiality that would prevent them from discussing joint bids, according to several people close to the situation.

Some potential buyers of Yahoo Inc are balking at the Internet company's demands for confidentiality that would prevent them from discussing joint bids, according to several people close to the situation.

Yahoo reported a 23 percent decrease in third-quarter earnings as its search engine revenue halved down from last year. However, its earnings and revenue came in above Street expectations.

Some potential buyers of Yahoo Inc are balking at the Internet company's demands for confidentiality that would prevent them from discussing joint bids, according to several people close to the situation.

During a discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes shots at Apple and Google.

Groupon Goods has announced a big discount on two lower-end tablets running the Android operating system. Users can receive up to 50 percent off the retail price.

Apple shares lost 5.6 percent of their value Wednesday after narrowly missing analyst estimates for fourth quarter earnings.

Google added more than 50 new features to its Docs Presentations offering to help it compete with Microsoft's and Apple's popular presentation software.

In June 2010, the Stuxnet worm infected tens of thousands of computers. Now, experts believe the worm is back, and is much more sophisticated and cutting edge.

Apple shares opened down about 4.3 percent after the world’s most valuable company reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analyst estimates.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back at it again at the Web 2.0 summit, bashing Google Apps, Android and even Apple iPhone asking to compare the appeal of Windows phone with Android phone and iPhone.

Remake of Classic game Halo: Combat Evolved gets remaster campaign, remade multiplayer maps and Kinect features.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit and picked apart his competitors, including Apple, Google, and Yahoo.

Do you find Android smartphones too complicated to operate? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer agrees. According to him, people need to be computer scientists to use an Android phone properly.

Yahoo (YHOO) announced its quarterly results on Tuesday. The company reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.04.

Two senior technology executives have resigned from McAfee Inc, the anti-virus software maker that Intel Corp bought in February, according to a company spokeswoman.

Dropbox was once sought after by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The company denied Apple the sale and went on to build one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley. Their most recent round of venture capital funding earned them $257.2 million.

Apple reported full-year revenue of $108 billion, firmly establishing it as one of the world’s top technology companies. Fourth-quarter earnings of $6.2 billion exceeded analyst estimates, but revenue of $28.3 billion fell slightly shy of them.

Yahoo, as expected, announced earnings and revenue declines but said for the first time a technology tie to Microsoft had been extended to 2013.