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In spite a rocky year for Apple following CEO Steve Jobs struggling health, the company has once again been named the World's Most Admired Company by Fortune for a second year in a row.

Yahoo Inc paid its financial advisers millions of dollars last year to defend the Internet company against Microsoft Corp's unsolicited buyout offer, according to a filing.

Microsoft announced today that it had an agreement with Vodafone in which they will team up to build a package that will allow small and medium-sized businesses to communicate and collaborate.

Microsoft Corp's chief financial officer forecast at least another year of tough trading in all areas on Thursday, as the economy shows no immediate sign of recovery.

Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz on Thursday took the wraps off a broad reorganization plan designed to dismantle what she called the silos that had slowed down the Internet company.

U.S. Internet firm Yahoo Inc is not opposed to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search business, Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said on Wednesday

Google Inc has added its voice to the case against Microsoft Corp as the European Commission probes antitrust charges related to the software giant's Internet Explorer browser

Microsoft Corp outlined plans to offset revenue declines as the PC market shifts to low-cost netbooks, but it failed to announce more cost cuts, sending its shares to an 11-year low.

have been shipped with Windows XP. While most netbooks currently run on a stripped-down version of Windows XP, Windows 7 was designed to work fully on the inexpensive laptops, he said. Buyers of netbooks with the low-end version of Windows 7 will have the option of upgrading to the more powerful versions, Ballmer said. Analysts expect Windows 7, which will replace the unpopular Windows Vista, t...

have been shipped with Windows XP. While most netbooks currently run on a stripped-down version of Windows XP, Windows 7 was designed to work fully on the inexpensive laptops, he said. Buyers of netbooks with the low-end version of Windows 7 will have the option of upgrading to the more powerful versions, Ballmer said. Analysts expect Windows 7, which will replace the unpopular Windows Vista, t...

Microsoft Corp has dropped an attempt to recoup some severance money from 25 recently fired workers it mistakenly overpaid. The Redmond, Washington-based company, which announced a plan to cut up to 5,000 jobs in January, acknowledged on Sunday that it had tried to get the overpaid workers to return the extra money. But late on Monday, it reversed course. This was a mistake on our part, said...

An accounting error reportedly led Microsoft Corp to notify some laid off employees last week that they would need to give back part of their severance pay. The world's largest software maker laid off 1,400 workers last month, the first of 5,000 jobs the company plans to cut over the next 18 months. The error is believed to have overpaid some former employees and underpaid others...

Navigation device maker Garmin posted lower-than-expected quarterly results as sales of its gadgets used in cars dropped, but shares rose 15 percent as the company reduced its inventory.

A U.S. federal court denied class action status to a lawsuit accusing Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) of misleading buyers about which computers could run expanded features that were part of the Windows Vista operating system.

have kept it relatively resilient to the economic downturn, it is still vulnerable to sharp cutbacks in corporate spending on technology. The big disappointment, not surprisingly, is the shortfall in revenue, said Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brent Bracelin. Their hardware businesses, both servers and storage, are under intense scrutiny. Budgets are being cut and that showed up in the ...

The new Smartphone chipset from Texas Instruments focuses on multimedia power. TI announced its next-generation application processor the so called multi-core OMAP-4 from OMAP family of chips.

Microsoft said on Monday it had signed a deal with LG Electronics, under which the world's third-largest cellphone maker will use Windows software in most of its smartphones.

stored on Windows phones. Microsoft, whose Windows mobile operating system used to be the second-most popular for smartphones after Nokia's Symbian, has been overtaken by Apple and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. (Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Erica Billingham)

Software giant Microsoft is in talks to buy Israel's 3DV Systems, a maker of three-dimensional video imaging, financial website TheMarker.com reported on Tuesday.

Computer software giant Microsoft has announced plans to open its own stores, in a bid to increase competition against Apple and at a time when many other retailers are struggling in the economic downturn.

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft unite with one common goal and that is to clean up what is called the Canonical Link Tag. The three big search engines agreed to the manage canonicalization issue with the use of a common tag.