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Microsoft
http://news.yahoo.com/i/2087 PC World - Microsoft is making payback quicker on its Cashback program after the service suffered an outage Friday and failed to give some people discounts they were eligible for.
Read more... PC World - Microsoft and Yahoo have dismissed a report that they're once again in discussions to sell Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion.
Read more... PC World - Microsoft is trying to sweeten the deal in its bribery -- er, sorry, promotion -- to get you to use its Live.com search engine. The company has just announced plans to make its Cashback program even more instant. Am I the only one getting tired of this?
Read more... PC World - Microsoft has charged a Florida company with cybersquatting in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read more... PC World - High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, launched the Touch HD handset in Taipei on Wednesday, a 3.8-inch touchscreen mobile phone that more closely matches up to the iPhone 3G.
Read more... InfoWorld - Like their enterprise counterparts, smaller businesses constantly look for ways to operate more efficiently, increasingly so in today's economy.
Read more...  Reuters - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company's online search business for $20 billion is "total fiction," according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.
Read more...Reuters - Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates has raised his stake in AutoNation Inc , the largest U.S. auto dealership group, to nearly 12 percent.
Read more... PC World - Rumors are buzzing this morning that Microsoft's Live Search may be rebranded as Kumo in 2009. The sleeping giants in Redmond, Washington have apparently been busy snapping up all the variants of Kumo: com, .net, .jp, .fr, .ru and so on. Right now the only information on most of these domains is they are being held by CSC Corporate Domains. According to LiveSide.net, watchers of all things Windows Live (hey, somebody's got to do it), CSC is Microsoft's domain registrar of choice at the moment.
Read more... PC World - A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold with an older Microsoft OS were labeled 'Vista Capable' when in fact they could only run a basic version of Vista.
Read more... NewsFactor - The advertising and marketing company hired to create Apple's commercials poking fun at Microsoft's Vista operating system might get new material to work with. After Microsoft tried to protect its top brass from testifying in a case involving "Windows Vista Capable" PCs, a judge has ordered CEO Steve Ballmer to give a deposition.
Read more... NewsFactor - The Web's rumor mill kicked into overdrive during the weekend, with speculation that Microsoft is preparing to rebrand its Live Search service. Several sites noted that the software giant has taken control of a domain that could be the new Live Search -- Kumo.com.
Read more... PC Magazine - Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will be called in for questioning about his role in a controversial Vista marketing campaign that prompted a consumer lawsuit.
Read more...  Reuters - Microsoft will be filled to the gills with "The Guild."
Read more...NewsFactor - Microsoft has announced that its final update of the current beta Internet Explorer 8 browser will be released in next year's first quarter -- after which it will launch the final release. Some observers had been expecting the final update to be released this year.
Read more... InfoWorld - In separate moves this week, Sun and Microsoft both proceeded with previously stated plans to boost their software development environments
Read more... AP - Not everyone is slashing jobs in these grim economic times. Microsoft Corp. has no plans to cut back on research spending and plans to add workers in the coming year, senior executive Craig Mundie said Friday.
Read more...  Reuters - Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced a new music subscription plan for owners of its Zune players, which would allow them to keep 10 tracks per month and add them to their permanent collection.
Read more...PC Magazine - Microsoft said this week that it will extend its subscription-based offerings into desktop PC management, although details on the new service are sketchy.
Read more... PC Magazine - Microsoft says via a blog post that an additional update is expected before Internet Explorer 8 is expected in the first quarter of 2009.
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