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Advisers to a small band of shareholders in Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg ASA added their voices to calls for suitor Cisco Systems Inc to up its $3 billion bid, ahead of a Monday offer deadline.

Applied Materials , Inc., the leading supplier of equipment and services to the solar photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets, including the intellectual property, of Advent Solar, Inc.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc., a development-stage biotechnology company, said late Thursday its third-quarter loss widened on higher research, development, and interest expenses.

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced By Elizabeth Montalbano When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

Windows 7 has been a bigger seller than its predecessor, Windows Vista , new industry figures show.

Adobe has introduced Photoshop.com Mobile as an application for mobile phones running the Android operating system.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages.

Technology-services provider Sapient Corp. said Thursday that third-quarter profits plunged by two-thirds, partly due to special charges, and the CEO said customers were growing more confident in business prospects.

Graphics firm Nvidia appears to have decided to develop a sense of humor and mock the mighty Intel with a web site it appears to sponsor called intelsinsides .

EBay says investors buying majority of Skype agreed to settle legal skirmish with Skype's founders.

A bright forecast from Cisco Systems and upbeat economic news sent stocks soaring Thursday and propelled the Dow Jones industrials back above 10,000. The rally, coming a day before the government's October employment report, showed that investors are regaining their optimism about an economic recovery.

Nov. 5 -- Zach Nelson, chief executive officer of NetSuite Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox about the outlook for company growth.

Sometimes it seems like my industry is writing its own obituary. We flinch every time another report of falling newspaper circulation comes out, as we saw again this week with the report of a 10.7 percent drop in newspaper subscriptions this year.

MANAGING IT NEEDS: George Paul , Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems, Rajeev Mittal , Group Director-Small and Medium Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation India, and Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Group, at a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday.

Article:Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite:/g/a/2009/11/04/urnidgns002570F3005978D88525766400571324.DTL Article:Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite:/g/a/2009/11/04/urnidgns002570F3005978D88525766400571324.DTL 09:07 PST -- Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google 's new ...

Google today launched a new service for Google account holders called Google Dashboard.

A late-day slump left stocks mixed Wednesday as investors couldn't hold on to their optimism after the Federal Reserve gave an encouraging assessment of the economy.

Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture.

Apple has officially confirmed reports from last week and announced today that the iTunes App Store now has 100,000 applications available for download.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.