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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.

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.