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Microsoft, Google seal Twitter search deals

Microsoft Corp and Google Inc secured separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google dominates.

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Ju Teng sees 2010 global laptop sales up 15%

Ju Teng International Holdings, the world's top maker of casings for notebook PCs, said the global notebook PC market is recovering and should grow about 15 percent in 2010, although ordering remains cautious....

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Scientists glean lessons from stalled AIDS vaccine

Merck and Co's failed AIDS vaccine may not have worked, but it probably did not raise the risk of infection either, doctors said on Tuesday. ...

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Yahoo triples profit, beats expectations

Yahoo Inc's quarterly profit more than tripled as cost cuts and asset sales offset revenue declines, and the Internet company said its top advertisers are beginning to spend again. ...

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Barnes & Noble's $259 e-reader challenges Kindle

Barnes & Noble Inc on Tuesday unveiled its electronic reader in a challenge to Amazon.com Inc's dominant Kindle, featuring a color screen and the same $259 price, ahead of the holiday shopping season....

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Space agencies, Google seek ways to save forests

Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday....

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Facebook, Twitter support U.S. FCC's Web rules

Popular websites Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist threw their support behind an open Internet framework to be unveiled by U.S. regulators this week. ...

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Advertising group welcomes Yahoo, Microsoft venture

A major advertising group wrote a letter to the Justice Department on Monday in support of Microsoft's and Yahoo's plan to work together to challenge dominant search engine Google....

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Google goes global with Apps, has 2 million customers

Google Inc said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products. ...

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Ex-Google China head eyes mobile, cloud computing

Lee Kai-Fu, who recently left Google China to start a fund backed by some of Greater China's biggest technology names, is eyeing cloud computing, e-commerce and the mobile platform industry for some of his first investments. ...

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