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Oracle Poised to Expand Dloud Offerings

Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) is preparing to expand its offerings in cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology sector, the company said on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Chief Executive Larry Ellison.

Microsoft CEO Bonus Lags on Phone, Tablet Results

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks about the upcoming release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, in Toronto
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer failed to clinch his maximum bonus for the second year running due to the company's slow progress in mobile phones and adapting to the tablet computer revolution.
Apple to release new iPhone on Oct.4

Five Features That iPhone 5 Will Not Have

With only a day remaining for Apple's eagerly anticipated iPhone event, rumors over what the company will and will not include in its new phone, which is believed to be the iPhone5, continues to grow.
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Report: Kindle Success Creates Big Room for Amazon Smartphone Next Year

As Techies Drool Over Amazon Silk, Privacy Questions Are Raised

Amazon rolled out its new line of Kindle tablets in New York Wednesday morning, adding the seven-inch $199 color Android Fire, the $99 keyboard-free 4GB Touch model and a $79 2GB non-touchscreen version to its ranks. Yet the Amazon product causing the most stir was not an e-reader or tablet, but Amazon Silk, the company's new mobile web platform powered by Amazon's incredibly extensive web services platform.
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Top 10 Features that can Make iPhone 5 Invincible

Though Apple has not announced anything officially about the highly anticipated iPhone 5, rumors about the probable specifications (based on details embedded in the beta version of iOS 5 and improvements expected on the next iPhone), have turned cacophonous on the web.
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Intel Capital Gambles Small Cloud Stakes Add Up to Huge Future Gains

Intel Capital, the in-house arm of the world’s biggest chipmaker, has seeded seven small companies in hopes they will swell into profitable ventures. The move comes a month after Intel announced its $300 million Ultrabook initiative for tablets and ultralight products.
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Alibaba to Release English Mobile OS This Month

Alibaba Cloud Computing, a unit of Alibaba Group, will release an English version of its mobile operating system this month and launch its tablet in the next two months, a top company executive said on Friday.
A share trader checks share prices as she sits behind her trading terminals at the trading floor of the German stock exchange in Frankfurt

Stern Advice: Where to Put Your Money Now

You've got to put your money somewhere, right? Under the mattress doesn't really work as a retirement program. It's lumpy, vulnerable to theft and your kids might find it.
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HP Upgraded to 'Buy' at Jefferies

Jefferies has upgraded PC giant Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) to "buy" from "hold," saying that the company is expected to deliver higher margins over long-term and is best positioned to benefit from the increasing demand for cloud services.
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FBR Upgrades VMWare to 'Outperform'

FBR Capital Markets has upgraded the shares of VMWare, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) to "outperform" from 'market perform," saying that the company would be a leading beneficiary of increasing demand for virtualization solutions.
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Like Zynga, Digital Chocolate pulls back from the cloud

It looks like Zynga?s infrastructure strategy is rubbing off on social gaming startups. Digital Chocolate, purveyor of social games such as Millionaire City and Pro MMA Fighter, is following in Zynga?s footsteps of launching games in the cloud, then bringing them back in house when demand levels off. It doesn?t have Zynga?s much ballyhooed hybrid cloud infrastructure quite yet, but Digital Chocolate is working on its own flavor of the ideal gaming cloud.
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Amazon flies high, may rise 25 percent more: Barron's

Amazon.com Inc shares, just below their all-time high, could rise 10 percent to 25 percent if its capital spending translates to fast growth in its retailing, Kindle e-readers and cloud-computing businesses, Barron's said in its August 1 edition.
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Amazon revenue surges

The largest Internet retailer benefited from growth in e-commerce, though margins continued to be pressured by heavy spending on distribution, technology and digital content.

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