Apple’s been having a great week in the stock market and is now hovering at $495 per share as of noon Friday. The rally on the market also gave the Cupertino, Calif.-based company some additional bragging rights: As of Thursday morning, Apple’s market cap was bigger than the values of Google and Microsoft combined. Read full article > >

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Microsoft on Wednesday seized on Google’s privacy flap as an opportunity to tout its own services as better for consumers. In a national ad campaign to launch today, Microsoft says that it offers greater choice to its users and that it isn’t as interested in collecting data for behavioral advertising. Read full article > >

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Microsoft ads to slam Google on privacy

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft opened the International Consumer Electronics Show by introducing much-awaited Windows Phone devices that will struggle to close a canyon-like gap established by leaders Apple and Google. In a keynote speech, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced that Nokia’s Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II phones using Windows Phones software will be offered later this year on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. Nokia’s Lumia 710, using the Windows Phones software, will be available Wednesday to T-Mobile USA customers. Read full article > >

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CES: Microsoft’s Ballmer announces new Windows Phone devices

Beijing and the Microsoft founder are in talks to develop a new “low cost, very safe” nuclear power reactor.

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China and Gates in reactor talks

Xbox Live isn’t just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television. The upgrade goes live on Tuesday. Calling it the future of TV, Microsoft is unveiling of a user interface for the Xbox 360 console’s dashboard; it is also unveiling dozens of new options for watching movies and TV on the game box. And Microsoft has improved the quality of using voice commands to move from one choice to another on the box or to search through all of the entertainment options at your disposal in an instant. Read full article > >

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Xbox Live isn’t just an online gaming service anymore

The BBC iPlayer will be on the Xbox in early 2012 as Microsoft turns its console into a more general entertainment device.

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Big update due for Microsoft Xbox

Beginning Tuesday, subscribers of Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service will be able to watch a wide array of mainstream television programming from the Xbox 360 console.

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Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box

Huawei confirms that patent talks with Microsoft are “in progress” regarding the Chinese firm’s use of the Android system.

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Bill Gates and other hugely successful entrepreneurs may have had good fortune in their lives, but they knew how to turn those lucky breaks into life-changing events.

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Essay: Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants

Apple and Microsoft are trying to secure the rights to new touchless gesture controls for potential future devices.

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The touchless control patent race

Steve Jobs left few visible tracks in Washington politics, but it wasn’t for a lack of influence, according to a new biography. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he told President Bill Clinton in a late-night phone call that if he had a dalliance with the intern, “you’ve got to tell the country.” As the Justice Department prepared its landmark antitrust suit against Microsoft , Jobs advised the lead prosecutor to keep the company, Jobs’s rival, tied up in litigation. Read full article > >

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Steve Jobs opens up about adoption, loves, faith in new biography

Position:  President and chief executive of Quest Software’s public sector, an information technology company based in Rockville. Career highlights:  Vice president of state and local government and higher education, Quest Software; vice president of sales, public sector, Quest Software; sales manager, Veritas Software; district manager, Metiom; enterprise sales manager, Microsoft; North America sales manager, Lotus/IBM. Read full article > >

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BRUSSELS — The European Commission approved Friday the proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of the Internet phone and video communication provider Skype by Microsoft Corp., saying the deal would not significantly impede competition in Europe. The approval appears to be the final step in the technology company’s effort to acquire Skype. The European Commission is the EU’s executive branch. Read full article > >

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European Union approves Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype

Shares in internet portal firm Yahoo leap on rumours that Microsoft is considering a second attempt at a takeover.

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Advocates are pushing Apple, Microsoft and Wal-Mart to end indirect funding of anti-gay religious groups.

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Companies Get Gay-Rights Heat Over Christian Donations