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Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) said Luca Maestri, its CFO, quit to become corporate controller at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL).

The FCC's plans to unleash Wi-Fi spectrum, plus the $5 billion tussle for Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), show spectrum is valuable.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt is out of North Korea after paying a four-day visit to the Hermit Kingdom.

No surprise: International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) received 6,478 patents in 2012, continuing its 20-year domination of the field.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is reportedly sizing up one of its major offices in Tokyo for sale in an effort to cut costs.

Samsung Electronics Co. (KSX:005930) announced that its fourth-quarter operating profit surged 89 percent to 8.8 trillion won (US $8.3 billion), a new record.

Initial public offerings could raise as much as $34 billion in U.S. markets and more than $100 billion worldwide, experts said.

A surprise bid for Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) by Dish Networks (NASDAQ:DISH) could upset plans by Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) to buy it.

The market value of Qualcomm Inc., the No. 1 designer of mobile chips, exceeds that of Intel. That's no mistake.

Technology spending should rise 5.6 percent to $3.7 trillion, Gartner (NYSE:IT) predicted, with strongest gains coming from cloud technologies.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) announced a deal with STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and Shaspa for "smart homes."

Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) expects a $10 billion charge for Hurricane Sandy damage and other reasons, CEO Lowell McAdam said.

When the boss of International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) services retires soon, the CEO determined two heads are better.

A U.S. judge denied THQ approval for its quick sale bid, saying that the proposed deal didn't give other bidders enough time to make competing offers.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), arrived in North Korea with former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson.

Global sales of consumer electronics may rise about 4 percent in 2013 to $1.11 trillion, the Consumer Electronics Association estimated.

Google Inc. got a New Year's gift when the Federal Trade Commission dropped its probe into anti-competitive practices, using a new rationale.

The Hewlett-Packard Co. told the Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing it is evaluating asset sales. Could it split apart?

Shipments of mobile devices designed for 4G LTE networks rose to a record 103 million in 2012, market research ABI Research estimated.

Leap Motion, which developed wireless controllers that allow smart platforms to read motions, will sell it in Asustek's platforms.

One customer's random act of kindness inspired 227 other Tim Hortons patrons to pay for the order of the person behind them in the drive-thru line at a Winnipeg location.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) settled charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by agreeing to changes in search and patent rights.

Google is likely to settle charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Thursday.

A federal judge in California threw out a fraud claim by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) that Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) infringed upon the name App Store.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli sued Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), the top developer of mobile chips, seeking information about political donations.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may face charges of anticompetitive practices brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week.

A judge set Jan. 23 for a pretrial conference on the class-action lawsuit against Facebook.

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) extended its patent licensing deal with InterDigital Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), ahead of the release of the BlackBerry 10.

Global chip sales in November rose 9 percent to $24.6 billion from 2011, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported.