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The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Spreadtrum Communications, Identive Group, Allos Therapeutics, Flow International, and SuperMedia. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Energy Recovery, Marvell Technology Group, Dot Hill Systems, BSQUARE, and EV Energy Partners.

Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine said it launched 'Bing deals' for both the desktop and mobile, allowing consumers to find the best deals locally, a service that will pit it against daily deals website Groupon.

With the software, users would have access to the same information that developers do.

New Bing based website brings deals from Groupon, Living Social and others to one single platform.

A week after updates rendered certain Window's Phone 7 devices inoperable, Microsoft has resumed updates.

Twitter has no plan to go public in the near future and does not need additional funds because it is making money, the co-founder of the popular microblogging site said.

At the Game Developer's Conference, Nintendo recognizes the importance of social gaming and evolving content; announces 10,000 WiFi hotspots and NetFlix availability for the 3DS.

Google said it will be offering its user managed storage service to Google Apps customers in next couple of days.

HTC's Android smartphones are among the best selling devices at all major U.S. carriers, according to checks of Robert W. Baird.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) could be an attractive acquisition target for companies, including Broadcom Corp. and Oracle.

The company joins Target, Best Buy, and Staples as the latest company to sell Amazon's eReader.

SocialEyes, a new venture is using Facebook to get into the video chat game.

Daily-deals website Groupon chalked up an eye-popping twenty-fold surge in 2010 revenue and hopes to get to billions of dollars this year, the Wall Street Journal cited an internal memo from its CEO as saying.

Citing Connection and storage factors, Microsoft says that a small minority of phones were affected.

Google resumed its spat with Facebook over contacts list as in its recent Gingerbread update to its Nexus S phone; it has restricted Facebook users from syncing their Facebook friends list with contacts list stored in the phone.

Gadget maker Apple has released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS X -- Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

HP is clearly struggling with consumer PCs and analysts say that's because the industry is in transition.

Apple's ambitions to boost its cloud-computing prowess got a significant push as its $1-billion data center in North Carolina approaches its opening this spring.

The first update for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 has rendered certain phone models to become inoperable.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, MIND C.T.I., Oclaro, HSN, and DIRECTV. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Subaye, Garmin, Conexant Systems, Netflix, and OmniVision Technologies.

Microsoft hopes that the move will show that it is embracing, not shunning homebrew developers.