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Yahoo’s second-biggest investor urged Microsoft to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal. In a quarterly letter to investors released on Tuesday, Bill Miller, the star stock-picker at U.S. asset manager Legg Mason estimated fair value […]

A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone from busy executives to political campaign staff on the eve of three U.S. presidential primaries. The disruption may have been caused by an upgrade to the systems of owner Research In Motion (RIM), its co-CEO Jim Balsillie said […]

The European Commission conducted antitrust raids on Tuesday against Intel’s Munich offices and retailers selling products of the world’s largest chipmaker, the Commission and Intel said. The European Union watchdog’s actions ratcheted up pressure on Intel and broke new ground by raiding Germany’s huge Media Markt-Saturn and British electrical goods retailer DSG International, which owns […]

Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley–based Danger, maker of the software that drives T-Mobile’s Sidekick Web phone and runs Google’s new mobile venture. Microsoft did not disclose the purchase price on Monday for privately held Danger. The company, co-founded by Andy Rubin, specializes in software and services designed for the mobile Internet and is […]

Motorola and Nortel Networks are in talks to combine their wireless infrastructure units, The Wall Street Journal reported, quoting people familiar with the situation. The talks could create a joint venture with sales of around $10 billion, combining businesses that make network equipment for wireless phone carriers, the newspaper said. Both companies declined comment. Motorola […]

Samsung and LG Electronics on Monday showed new phones using free Linux software from the Mobile Linux foundation, which said in total 18 phones from seven vendors would use its software. The world’s second-largest mobile phone maker Samsung, which has used Linux in its phones in 2006, launched a new SGH-i800 phone model running on […]

Yahoo is set to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited bid, now worth $42 billion, as too low, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Saturday — the first clear signal the board might be prepared to negotiate and sell the Internet media giant. The Wall Street Journal had quoted an unnamed source as saying Microsoft’s […]

As comments from tech bellwether Cisco Systems spur recession fears this week, companies focused on computers and consumer gadgets are seen to be among those most vulnerable to a downturn. Analysts say business software makers are better placed to ride out a U.S. recession as they help companies to work more efficiently, but prospects are […]

Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday its board authorized the repurchase of up to $1 billion of the company’s common stock over the next two years, and its shares rose 3.3 percent. Amazon said its board also authorized a debt repurchase program, enabling the company to redeem, repurchase, or retire up to all […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of media company CNET Networks (NASDAQ:CNET) soared more than 7 percent on Friday, on speculation that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) might be interested in acquiring a stake in it. Options volume also soared on the speculation. CNET is also

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