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Amazon's Kindle 2 electronic reader retails for $359 but costs about half that amount to build, research group iSuppli Corp said on Wednesday.

Yahoo Inc said it would cut 5 percent of its global workforce and reported quarterly results that showed progress toward controlling costs, sending shares higher in an after-hours relief rally.

After one false start, weeks of speculation and roller-coaster swings in its share price, the company once synonymous with the rise of the Internet has finally landed an attractive-looking buyer.

Investors are looking to Microsoft Corp's earnings report on Thursday for a sign that the worst may be over for the economy and that the recent surge in technology stocks is not pure froth.

Oracle is going to cut jobs in an effort to make its Sun Microsystems Inc acquisition profitable, according to analysts.

On Tuesday, VMware, Inc. announced the vSphere 4, which the company called the first operating system for building the internal cloud.

Oracle is going to cut jobs in an effort to make its Sun Microsystems Inc acquisition profitable, according to analysts.

Microsoft Corp. announced plans to invest about 10 billion rubles ($300 million) in Russia over the next three years, the company’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, said at a press conference on Monday.

The Oracle-Sun acquisition could thrive under oracle ownership according to analysts, but it could be a bleaker outcome for MySQL.

Oracle Corp plans to enter the computer hardware market by buying Sun Microsystems Inc for more than $7 billion, swooping in after Sun's talks with IBM fell apart.

Adobe Systems Inc. announced that it will be bringing its popular Flash technology beyond computer screens to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other home entertainment devices.

Oracle Corp plans to buy Sun Microsystems Inc for more than $7 billion, after the high-end computer server and software maker's talks with IBM fell apart.

Oracle Corp said on Monday it will buy Sun Microsystems Inc for $9.50 a share, valuing the high-end computer server maker at more than $7 billion.

Oracle Corp said on Monday it will buy Sun Microsystems Inc for $9.50 a share, valuing the high-end computer server maker at more than $7 billion.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says 2009 will be year of the Android, suggesting Apple's iPhone may have a tougher competitor in the Smartphone market than previously expected.

U.S. videogame makers are expected to shake off slack sales later this year as top titles like Harry Potter return, but investors may stay on pause until signs show a clear win.

EBay Inc may be hungry to jettison its ill-fitting acquisition of Skype and refocus on its core markets and payment businesses. But selling off in an initial public offering the Web communications company that now boasts more than 400 million members worldwide may not be the best outcome for existing shareholders.

Rosetta Stone Inc shares finished their first day of trading up nearly 40 percent Thursday, following the company's initial public offering, making it the strongest start of a new stock in nearly a year.

Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department agreed to extend some portions of federal antitrust oversight by 18 months, to May 2011, according to court papers filed on Thursday.

NEC and Panasonic will unveil on Monday nine new cell phone models running the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux foundation LiMo said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

eBay plans to spin off its Skype unit, acknowledging that the Web telephone service does not fit with the rest of the company, in an indictment of former CEO Meg Whitman's acquisition strategy.