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From the first trading day after the strike was announced, Aug. 8, through the close of business on Aug. 17, Verizon shares rose 7.52 percent.

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IBM denies trying to simulate human brain

Here are five tech flops from the PC era

Computer system could issue Tsunami warnings and identify spoiled food

Hewlett-Packard could sell low-margin PCs to focus on high-margin services

Hewlett-Packard may announce a bold plan as early as today to completely remake the company -- shedding its PC unit and acquiring enterprise software company Autonomy Corp for $10 billion.

IBM has developed a new microprocessor the company claims comes closer than anything done before at replicating the human brain.

Are computers finally taking over the world? Not yet but IBM is hoping to make computers more humanlike.

The company calls it an ?unprecedented? step in creating intelligent computers.

Could a bidder for patents look at Freescale Semiconductor, once a unit of Motorola?

Google Inc. has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion or $40 a share in cash, valuing each essential patent at about $20 million, to defend its Android ecosystem. RBC Capital Markets said the deal value of $12.5 billion equates to 0.7 times trailing twelve months (TTM) of equity value-to-sales.

Search giant Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility prima facie looks to shut out Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) and Nokia, which are struggling in the smartphone race, but instead the deal could make the companies attractive acquisition targets.

Google paid less per patent than Apple's syndicate did in recent smartphone wars

Google's response to Apple in the smartphone patent wars ran counter to practice: rather than settling, it bought an Apple rival

Currently, investors are speculating that the Google-Motorola deal will spur other handset deals and Nokia and RIM could be potential acquisition targets.

IBM engineer Mark Dean ? who happens to be one of the designers of the company?s first personal computer ? used the celebration of the PC?s 30th birthday to announce that we now live in the ?post-PC era.?

With the new LHC@home 2.0 project, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are using citizen volunteer computers to help prove the existence of the God particle.

After a week of gyrations that's seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise or fall 400 points for four straight days, it's understandable if U.S. investors are bewildered. Given the tumult, what stance should investors adopt now?

Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) still faces tough challenges with tight public spending and fears of a new economic downturn, analysts warned, after the giant Silicon Valley company ended a year's worth of disappointing sales forecasts.

IBM executive Mark Dean talks about life after the PC on the 30th birthday of the 5150 Personal Computer.

Tech stocks didn't fall as sharply as the overall market.

Tech stocks fell only moderately Wednesday.

Apple Inc on Tuesday surpassed Exxon Mobile Corp, if only briefly, to become the most valuable company in the United States. With a market cap of almost $342 billion, Apple's sales have been increasing 80 percent a year, coupled with even faster profit.

Tech stocks gained nearly 5 percent in Tuesday's market rally

Ironically, Exxon still generates about four times the annual revenue that Apple does.

Tech stocks recovered slightly from Monday's beating

International Business Machines (IBM) has terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to build a supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), citing technical and financial constraints.

Tech stocks took a hit, but not as bad as the overall market in Monday's rout.