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Nov. 20 -- Robert Hagstrom, a portfolio manager at Legg Mason Capital Management, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu and Adam Johnson about his investment strategy.

It's hard to get more to-the-point than Apple boss Steve Jobs. After Apple's lawyers told a software company called The Little App Factory to stop using the name "iPod" in one of its products -- "iPodRip" -- co-owner John Devor sent a long email to Steve, appealing for help, CrunchGear's Daniel Brusilovsky reports .

European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Signs of a subdued economic recovery sent investors out of stocks Thursday and in search of safer assets like the dollar.

Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

Dell Inc. said Thursday that its net income dropped 54 per cent in the latest quarter and amid signs the company isn't fully benefiting from the computer industry's fledgling recovery.

Nov. 19 -- Paul Meeks, principal at Winsor Asset Management, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the outlook for Dell Inc.

Google held an event on Thursday to unveil details about is Chrome OS, which was first announced in July. Prior to Thursday, only miniscule details about the OS were known, including it running on netbooks, and delivery of the final product in the second half of 2010.

Ah, Apple Tablet. For a product that exists only in the ether of speculative journalism, it's given us so much to talk about.

The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs.

BMO Capital Markets on Wednesday downgraded Research in Motion Ltd., saying the BlackBerry maker faces rising competition and a consumer shift toward cheaper phones.

Norwegian electric car maker Think Global is gearing up to launch its vehicles in the United States and has picked a site in Indiana for its U.S. manufacturing facility, according to a major investor in the company.

AT&T has lost round one in its fight against Verizon's anti-ATT-network ads. The company has sued Verizon, saying the maps and statements made in the latest Verizon ads confuse consumers.

Irony of ironies. Microsoft has been banned from selling Windows in China, the ultimate land of piracy. One would think it might be the other way around (if it were possible, that is).

Hopefully you didn't pay $100 for the Palm Pixi on the day it launched a few days ago. If you did, you probably feel seriously ticked off, as you can now get the Palm Pixi at Amazon.com for a mere $25, and without having to mail any rebates in.

When Google first started working on the Android platform, it was believed to be a smartphone, nicknamed the Google Phone or gPhone. Since then, Android the platform has emerged, and thoughts of a Google Phone have vanished. But should they have?

In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc.

In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co.

Tens of thousands of customers of Heartland Payment Systems are finding themselves caught in the middle of an escalating war between the payment processing vendor and point-of-sale terminal vendor VeriFone Inc.

At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet a ' climate change, renewable energy, new medicines a ' rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up.