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Steve Ballmer says that Windows 8 represents a “rebirth” of his company’s core OS that will trigger sales of 500 million units between its release later this year and the end of 2013.
more Google wasted no time in finalizing its $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola Mobility in the wake of Chinese regulatory approval.
more Steve Ballmer said that the company expects its hardware partners to ship 350 million copies of Windows 7 this year.
more China antitrust authorities have approved Google’s proposed $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the online advertising giant to finalize the transaction.
more A lot has changed with antitrust regulators in the EC since they took Microsoft to court again and again to answer for its predatory practices in the desktop OS market. Now, facing online advertising giant Google, the EU is trying a different, more expedient tactic.
more Anyone hoping that last week’s Facebook IPO was going to trigger a new wave of Internet bubble hysteria came away disappointed after the social networking giant stumbled badly and only artificially reached its stock offering price of $38.
more An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Windows Phone market share surges thanks to Lumia 900, AT&T has big expectations for Windows Phone thanks to Windows 8, fears that Nokia is burning through cash too quickly, buy a new PC and get a free Xbox 360, Windows 8 won’t stop PC makers from bundling crapware, Twitter joins Do Not Track, HP reportedly cutting 30,000 jobs next week, and Verizon Wireless effectively kills grandfathered unlimited data.
more Just hours after Microsoft launched the biggest revamp of its Bing search engine since its inception 3 years earlier, the search industry’s 800-pound gorilla announced an update of its own.
more Microsoft rolled out a set of previously announced changes to Bing that represents the biggest overhaul to its search service since its debut 3 years ago.
more With this week’s launch of the AMD “Trinity” processor chipsets—now renamed to the more pedestrian 2nd-Generation A-Series APUs, or Accelerated Processing Units—both of the major microprocessor makers are armed for battle.
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