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Nokia's wisdom in picking outsider Stephen Elop to return it to its former glory will be tested on Friday when the new chief executive reveals his plans to transform the world's biggest cellphone maker.

Micro blogging giant Twitter is said to have held low level acquisition talks with Google Inc. and Facebook.

Microsoft Corp named veteran insider and expert engineer Satya Nadella as the head of its $15 billion server and tools business, as it looks to revitalize its push into cloud computing.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop trashes Symbian and says company is far behind Apple and Android.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Photronics, Transition Therapeutics, Take-Two Interactive Software, Atmel, and Mercer International. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Smith Micro Software, Sierra Wireless, Motricity, WSB Holdings, and Zalicus.

Dell Inc showed off a tablet device for business users that runs Microsoft's Windows software, as the personal computer company continues to push aggressively into the mobile market.

A possible management shake-up in the Microsoft camp is due to throw up senior product executives with engineering muscle at the top to tackle the might of Apple and Google in the smartphone, tablets and cloud domains.

Share of Google’s Android in the US smartphone platform market increased to 28.7 percent in the last quarter of 2010, overtaking the share held by Apple, said a report by comScore on Monday.

Jefferies & Co. said investors are uncertain about Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) future in consumer technology and that they have chosen to discount all parts of the business until it becomes clearer what Microsoft’s competitive position in the key areas of tablets, smartphones and online search will be.

The program secures pre-admission for university students in the IESE Business School's MBA class and also places them in a prominent firm for two years at least so that they fulfill the experiential requirements of the prestigious full time program.

Now that all the hype and the hoopla of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States are over, the same basic commercial question remains unanswered: How can American companies create more jobs for Americans by selling more American goods and services in China?

A massive R&D budget and the addition of Windows phones may not help Nokia's standing in the smartphone market.

Market analysts speculate that Nokia would eventually join the Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 ecosystem.

Microsoft said it would release 12 security patches and software updates to fix 22 bugs in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Visual Studio, and IIS.

Microsoft Corp on Thursday sold $2.25 billion of bonds at close to record low borrowing levels as it looks for cheap ways of raising cash to fund its share buybacks and dividend payouts.

by Tim SifertNEW YORK, Feb 3 - Microsoft Corp on Thursday launched a $2.25 billion sale of bonds in the software giant's third trip to the U.S. dollar investment-grade market.

Calling AT&T's billing system a rigged gas pump, the a court filing says that AT&T systematically overstates its users data transactions.

Microsoft, not Yahoo! is to blame for the issue, the statement says.

Bing has responded to the allegations of copying from Google by dubbing the whole ordeal a back-handed compliment.

Sixty-nine per cent of investors say Facebook is overvalued after Goldman Sachs invested $450 million in a deal that valued the company at $50 billion, according to the quarterly poll of 1,000 Bloomberg customers who are investors, traders or analysts.

Increased data usage poses concerns for Windows Phone 7 users with tired data plans.