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The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: SGOCO Group, Spreadtrum Communications, Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Logitech International, and Golar LNG. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Progress Software, ARM Holdings, Star Scientific, Glu Mobile, and Microsoft.

Meego 1.3 will support smart TVs, multimedia devices and car infotainment

This isn't the first time Facebook has hired an infamous hacker: In fact, there are several teenaged hackers who got rewarded for their cyber-crime instead of being imprisoned.

1plusV, French counterpart of Google's search engine, along with three other internet companies, has accused Google of exploiting its dominant market position to give preferential treatment to its own services while demoting rival sites.

Competition in the technology sector is heating up as the biggest and most successful companies are expanding and stepping on each other's toes.

Apple is poised to launch two new iPhones, a cheaper iPhone 4S and the all new iPhone 5 in rather quick succession, if industry buzz is to be believed. The theory suggests that Apple as a company is at an inflection point with regard to its smartphone strategy and is willing to take daring new steps in the backdrop of a surging challenge from Android OS-based devices.

Microsoft takes the curtain off its latest software: Office 365.

As Google tries to fend off a U.S. probe of its multibillion-dollar search business, it has been quietly adding to its stable of antitrust advisers, which, Reuters has learned, includes a former Microsoft prosecutor.

Microsoft Corp made its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing on Tuesday, taking the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite.

In a bid to challenge Google's collection of online office productivity and communications programs called 'Google Apps', Microsoft starts selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications.

Microsoft Corp made its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing on Tuesday, taking the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite.

Microsoft introduced its Office 365, a cloud-based service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products. CEO Ballmer called it Microsoft Office meets the cloud.

Microsoft is announcing its Office 365 this morning. It's a cloud-based enterprise service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products.

Google clearly thinks Google Apps is a better enterprise service than Microsoft Office 365, which Microsoft plans to launch on Tuesday.

Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating program to manufacturers in April 2012, an industry expert says.

According to various reports, Gina Rinehart, an Australian mining executive, is one the verge of becoming the richest person on the planet.

Facebook overtook Microsoft websites in Britain for the first time last month, becoming the UK's second-most popular after Google as people aged over 50 flocked to social networks, online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen said.

The PS3 price may drop during Gamescom this year

Apple iPad may be the king of the tablet jungle at the moment but rivals are breathing down its neck.

Steam and Valve are the only ones so far to provide free gaming service.

The global search giant has said that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will review its business practices and promises to co-operate with the probe.