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Microsoft has begun to roll out updates for its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest set of software upgrades, with over 500 changes, making it the biggest update yet for the mobile platform.

Reaction to the Icahn rumor may reflect the immense amount of investor frustration over a company that has rapidly lost its way.

Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion vaulted 6 percent Tuesday amid speculation Carl Icahn has joined Canadian hedge funds in a move to shake up the company.

Lionsgate has acquired the rights to turn the video game into a movie.

The long-beleaguered search engine company Yahoo! Inc. would probably be better off selling off pieces of itself rather than submit to a takeover in whole, given that the separate segments of the firm probably have more value than the sum of the individual parts. However, any such potential transaction won’t happen overnight.

Protesters leading a massive public sector strike that has caused power cuts, delayed trains and shut schools threatened on Monday to shut down business in Hyderabad for a day later this week.

Shares of Berkshire Hathaway jumped 6.5 percent to $106,500 after Warren Buffett’s conglomerate announced its first-ever share buyback.

Shares of Eastman Kodak plunged as much as 24 percent Monday on fears the photography giant may be running out of cash -- yet intellectual property investment banks such as MDB Capital of San Diego, Calif., have estimated the Kodak patents could be valued around $2 billion.

President Barack Obama harshly criticized Republican opponents on Sunday as he began a West Coast fundraising tour, accusing them of ideological pushback at a time of national crisis.

The Facebook CEO is richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page who have a personal wealth of $16.7 billion each

A report by Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Group of 20 ministers on Friday proposes raising new funding for poorer countries by taxing financial transactions, tobacco, and shipping and aviation fuels, according to details of a G20 report obtained by Reuters.

A report by Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Group of 20 ministers on Friday proposes raising new funding for poorer countries by taxing financial transactions, tobacco, and shipping and aviation fuels, according to details of a G20 report obtained by Reuters.

Forbes' latest list of billionaires, which was published on Wednesday, has a few surprises on it. The world has now 1,210 billionaires, with a total net worth of $4.5 trillion. The number of billionaires has doubled in China while Moscow surpasses all other cities in the number of billionaires.

An open beta for EA’s most-awaited FPS (First Person Shooter) game, “Battlefield 3,” is set to arrive on Sept. 29 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

The special design feature of Windows To Go will be available in Microsoft’s recently unveiled Windows 8. This will provide mobility to users since Windows 8 can boot from a USB key.

2011 Forbes list of Americas top ten wealthiest men.

Mark Zuckerberg edged out Larry Page and Sergey Brin for the first time on the Forbes 400, its annual list of the richest people in America.

Apple's upcoming operating system iOS 5, which is expected to be released this fall and is going to power iPhone 5, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3 GS, has copied certain features from the Android platform.

Investor George Soros, at 81, has for the first time made the list of the 10 wealthiest Americans, Forbes Magazine reported on Wednesday in the 2011 edition of its annual rich list.

Microsoft would release a Windows Phone 7.5 update, or Mango, in about two weeks time that is expected to energize the software giant in its smartphone OS battle against Apple and Google.

Defending his company’s business practices on Capitol Hill for the first time after the mounting inspection of its operations, Google Inc. Chairman, Eric Schmidt, directly declined that his company was manipulating its search engine results to steer users to its own online services.