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Microsoft's Xbox One reflects game change in home entertainment
The battle for control of the living room just became more fierce. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday unveiled the Xbox One, a next-generation video game console that aspires to be more than just a plaything. Not only will the Xbox One deliver an amped-up...
Tags: Television Industry, Consumers, PlayStation 4, Wii, Steven Spielberg
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Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world
He may be retired, but that's not kept Bill Gates from regaining the top spot as the richest man in the world. Gates, 57, who co-founded and led Microsoft to the top of the tech world before retiring from day-to-day operations in 2008, has a fortune...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc., Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Google+
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Stars align for a Microsoft 'Star Trek' marketing deal
Microsoft Corp. is partnering with Paramount Pictures on a promotional effort for the studio's "Star Trek Into Darkness." It represents the biggest such undertaking ever for the software giant. The Redmond, Wash., company's campaign isn't short on...Tags: Xbox, Gaming Industry, Microsoft Surface, Marketing, Software Industry
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Microsoft to call Windows 8 update Windows 8.1
ReutersMicrosoft Corp.will call the update to its Windows operating system Windows 8.1. The world's largest software company has been touting the update, code-named "Blue," as a series of improvements to the Windows 8 software, launched in October, which has...Tags: Microsoft Corporation, New Products
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Microsoft llamará Windows 8.1 a la nueva actualización de su software
ReutersSEATTLE, EEUU, 14 mayo (Reuters) - El ejecutivo de Microsoft Tami Reller dijo el martes que la próxima actualización de la empresa para su sistema operativo se llamará Windows 8.1 y estará disponible más adelante este año de manera gratuita para los...Tags: Microsoft Corporation
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Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers and security firms sell tools for breaking into computers. The...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Raytheon Company, Networking, Economy, Business and Finance, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Microsoft says operating system update to be called Windows 8.1
ReutersSEATTLE, May 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp executive Tami Reller said on Tuesday the company's forthcoming update to its Windows operating system will be called Windows 8.1 and will be available later this year free to existing Windows 8 customers....Tags: Microsoft Corporation, New Products, Software Industry
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How to carve a swan from a watermelon (and other institutional analogies)
Tiger Woods, Microsoft and the Tea Party are all reasserting themselves. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for May 13, 2013. Woods won his 78th PGA event Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, showing further recovery from a series of injuries and marital...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Tea Party Movement, Apple iPad, Microsoft Corporation, Google Inc.
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PRESS DIGEST - British Business- May 13
ReutersMay 13 (Reuters) - The Guardian PARTS OF UK COAL MAY BE NATIONALISED AFTER COLLIERY FIRE CLOSES PIT Troubled parts of UK Coal, Britain's largest coal mining business, could return to public ownership under plans being discussed by ministers that would...Tags: Vietnam, World Bank Group, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Steve Ballmer, Online Media Industry
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COLUMN - Benghazi and the Republican abandonment of the center
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist) By Nicholas Wapshott May 10 (Reuters) - In World War Two, the Libyan port of Benghazi was hard fought over, changing hands five times between Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the Allied forces. Seventy years on,...Tags: Elections, National Rifle Association of America, PBS (tv network), Voting, Immigration
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Microsoft may buy Barnes & Noble's Nook unit for $1 billion
According to internal documents obtained by the website TechCrunch, Microsoft has offered $1 billion for the digital assets of Nook Media, Barnes & Noble's digital book venture. The deal would give Microsoft Barnes & Noble's e-books, homegrown games and...
Tags: Mother's Day, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Surface
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Microsoft says Windows 8 sales 'good' but will update amid criticisms
In the face of mounting criticisms and sluggish PC sales, Microsoft continues to insist that its gamble on the radically redesigned Windows 8 operating system is paying off, if slowly. Tami Reller, the Windows division's chief marketing officer and...
Tags: Mother's Day, Microsoft Corporation, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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