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Microsoft entered the European health care market starting with offering Amalga health care software.

Yahoo Inc., the target of a hostile takeover bid by Microsoft Corp., is in the eye of a storm of potential deals involving the some of the biggest players in technology and media including Google Inc., News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.

Yahoo Inc. may be near an announcement that it will carry search web search advertising from Google Inc., according to a report released Wednesday.

Chinese Internet firm Alibaba is speeding up the buyback of its stake owned by Yahoo Inc, as Microsoft Corp threatens to go hostile with a lower bid for Yahoo.

Senior executives at Microsoft and Yahoo met this week to discuss their proposed merger but did not get anywhere with the talks, the Wall Street Journal said on its Web site, citing people familiar with the matter.

Microsoft may sweeten its bid to acquire Internet-giant Yahoo, according to one analyst, sending shares of the firm higher in Tuesday trading.

Greenpeace has again slammed Nintendo for not making public its policies on environmental waste.

Microsoft has released the first major update to its Windows Vista operating system on Tuesday, promising better performance and increased stability.

Microsoft and Yahoo senior executives met on Monday this week and discussed about Microsoft's takeover for the internet giant according to published reports.

Nintendo continued to dominate rivals in the month of February, with new data showing the game-maker selling nearly twice as many game-consoles in the second month of the year.

Microsoft is in talks with Sony to bring the Japanese company's next generation Blu-Ray drive to its Xbox 360 game console.

Apple Inc said on Thursday it will start supporting Microsoft Corp's Exchange product for corporate email, opening a potential new market for the popular iPhone.

Microsoft released a test version of its latest web browser, Internet Explorer 8, on Wednesday.

At Microsoft's MIX08 online technology conference, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, provided a first glimpse at the successor to IE 7, which was released in October 2006.

Yahoo Inc extended a deadline to nominate board directors, buying the company time to pursue alternatives to Microsoft Corp's $41.7 billion offer, while also giving Yahoo room to negotiate a friendly deal with Microsoft.

Microsoft Corp, faced with Web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software. Last year, Microsoft started subscription-based online services to run its Exchange corporate e-mail program and SharePoint collaboration software on Microsoft's own computer systems as an alternative to customers buying their own hardware to run licensed software.

E-mail messages from Microsoft executives released this week reveal technical and marketing struggles the company faced in launching the Windows Vista operating system last year.

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows. The world's largest software maker said it plans to lower retail prices for Vista in 70 countries later this year in tandem with the shipment of the first major update to Vista, known as Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Google unveiled a new Web-site publishing tool for office workers late Wednesday, taking aim at rival Microsoft in the corporate tools arena.

Nintendo software titles continue to dominate video-game sales in Japan according to new data released today, while its Wii game-console outpaced rivals Sony and Microsoft.

A federal court ruled on Tuesday that Microsoft must pay a Guatemalan investor for infringing his software in its Office Suite.