MICROSOFT

Microsoft and federal agents took down Rustock, a botnet responsible at its peak for nearly half of the world's spam.

Microsoft Corp claimed credit on Thursday for taking down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail in a joint effort with federal authorities across the United States.

Benchmark Capital raised profit estimate of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) as channel checks reveal strong search advertising, which is driving double-digit cost-per-click (CPC) growth.

The newest version of Internet Explorer boasts impressive first-day numbers.

Senators, government organizations and even the President are throwing their support behind 'Do Not Track' legislation.

In a closely-watched patent case before the Supreme Court, i4i has fired a brief at Microsoft saying that the latter wants to overturn a century of precedent in patent law.

Intel is said to join hands with Taiwan-based notebook makers to push in to Android tablet PC market, a move after Microsoft said its Windows operating system will add support for ARM-based platforms.

Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPod, the Zune, met an early death just four years after it was launched, adding another casualty to its list of hardware flops.

Oppenheimer lowered its profit forecast on phone giant Nokia as the company is seeing greater than market seasonal weakness in demand in the first quarter of 2011.

Adobe is planning to release the fix for a critical vulnerability that affected certain versions of its flash player during the week of March 21, 2011.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) launched at SXSW gets a positive start with early reviews hailing the internet browser designed to counter Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Microsoft Corp is not planning any more versions of its unpopular Zune digital media player, but is to continue offering music and video using the same software online, through its Xbox game console and on its Windows phones.

Leveraging its content and channel, Amazon could present a unique and significant challenge to Apple and its iPad.

At the CanSecWest conference ni Vancouver, Safari and Internet Explorer 8 were both successfully hacked, showing that even the latest browsers are vulnerable.

LinkedIn, the Internet social network for professionals, launched a service on Thursday that creates a customized online newspaper from articles being shared by the network's more than 90 million members.

World's top phone maker Nokia will pay its CEO Stephen Elop more than $6 million in one-time payments for moving to the Finnish company from Microsoft last September, a corporate filing showed on Friday.

General Motors' (NYSE: GM) chief financial officer chief is quitting, reportedly after he was passed over for the CEO job.

Hackers recently took Micosoft for $1.2 million by stealing Microsoft Points used in the company's Xbox Live Marketplace.

HP's strategy to create an ecosystem of apps and devices around its WebOS platform gathered steam, as CEO Leo Apotheker announced that from 2012 every PC shipped out of HP will have WebOS installed in it, apart from Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft's Kinect sensor systems sold ten million units since their launch in November to grab the Guinness world record for the fastest selling consumer electronics device.

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it has sold more than 10 million Kinect motion-sensing game system units worldwide in just over four months, making it the fastest-selling consumer device on record.