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29 min ago | ClipSyndicate

Pequot Employee Told Therapist That Samberg Sought Tips: Video

Nov. 20 -- The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S. insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in 2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., the psychologist said in a deposition.

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Related Topix: Pequot Capital Management, Video, Business News

4 hrs ago | Paid Content

Chegg Raises An Ungodly $112 Million For Online Textbook Rental Service

Looks like VCs are really loosening their wallets. College textbook rental service Chegg says it has raised a stupendous $57 million in a fourth round of funding.

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Related Topix: Chegg

9 hrs ago | MyFoxChicago

Facebook Chat Answers Flu Questions

Chicago - Got a swine flu question? Get an answer during a live Facebook chat offered by Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Facebook, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Chicago Metro

13 hrs ago | ABC News

Former CEO of Bricsnet Indicted for Embezzlement

The former head of San Francisco software company is being held without bail after a federal grand jury indicted him on embezzlement charges.

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Related Topix: Bricsnet, San Francisco, CA

Thu Nov 19, 2009

TechCrunch

eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation

The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid and "certain affiliated parties", the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz .

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Silver Lake Partners

KVAL-TV Eugene

Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search

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

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Related Topix: Media, Yahoo!, Computers, Search Engines, Twitter, Internet, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Software, Sunnyvale, CA

Technologizer

Apps and an App Store for Livescribea s Pulse Smartpen

"Unique" is one of the most overused words in tech, but it's the only way to describe Livescribe's Pulse smartpen .

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Related Topix: Livescribe, Computers, iPhone

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Playboy shares fall

Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners said Wednesday that a media report indicating that it is interested in buying the men's magazine publisher are untrue.

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Related Topix: Oak Hill Corporation, Oak Hill Venture Partners

The Sydney Morning Herald

Top 10 internet moments

Influential ... high marks for putting power into the hands of ordinary people. The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 internet moments of the decade.

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, iPhone, Local Search, Craigslist

ITworld

Microsoft Windows Mobile essential guide

But with Windows Mobile 7 set to debut in 2010, Microsoft isn't giving up on the smartphone OS market.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology, iPhone

Wed Nov 18, 2009

I4U Future Technology News

Google's Chrome OS Event Is Tomorrow

Alright, so we've got good news and bad news. First off, the good news. TechCrunch has been notified that Google is planning a Chrome OS event for Thursday.

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Related Topix: TechCrunch

Seeking Alpha

Salesforce Chatter: A Real-Time Social Network for the Enterprise

We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: Salesforce.com, Software, salesforce.com, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Social Software

Star-telegram.com

Fortinet shares soar on first day of trading

Shares of Fortinet Inc. rose sharply in the company's first day of trading on the Nasdaq, another sign that the recently moribund IPO market is coming back to life.The network security provider priced its initial public offering of 12.5 million shares at $12.50 each, above the expected range of $9 to $11 apiece.Investors bid shares up $4.42, or 35 ...

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Related Topix: Fortinet, Science / Technology, Computer Security, Sunnyvale, CA

I4U Future Technology News

The Google Phone Does Exist

Today, TechCrunch broke some rumors that, if true, mean two things. First, that an honest-to-goodness Google phone is coming.

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Related Topix: TechCrunch

Computerworld

Mac laptops less reliable than Asus, Sony

Apple's line of laptops ranked fourth in a multi-year reliability survey of nine notebook makers, according to a study of 30,000 portable computers published today by a company that provides after-sale warranties.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, SquareTrade, Computers, Science / Technology, Apple

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Star Tribune

Autodesk posts lower 3Q profit, sales, shares fall

Design and engineering software maker Autodesk Inc. said Tuesday its business looks "increasingly stable" despite posting a sharp drop in third-quarter profit.

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Related Topix: Autodesk, Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering, Software

MarketWatch

Salesforce.com profit doubles as subscribers grow

Salesforce.com Inc. on Tuesday posted a sharp gain in fiscal third-quarter profit, while sales rose 20% as the provider of Internet-hosted business software continued to accumulate subscribers.

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Related Topix: Salesforce.com, Software, Application Service Providers, salesforce.com

WTIC-TV Hartford

Microsoft to start charging for access to cloud computing system Windows Azure in February

Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Computers, Amazon

Ars Technica

New SMB flaw can crash Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 remotely

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977544 in regard to public reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the company's implementation of the Server Message Block 2 protocol that only affects Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 .

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology

WCAX-TV Burlington

Applied Materials offers to buy Semitool for $364M

Applied Materials Inc. said Tuesday it offered to buy Semitool Inc. for $364 million in cash, a move the company says will broaden its portfolio of chip manufacturing equipment.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Semitool, Electronics, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA

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