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Futures Rise With Global Shares U.S. equity futures rose in early trade Thursday as global shares gained on new stimulus rounds. Asian shares rallied and European shares gained for the third straight day as sovereign bond yields on peripheral nations declined. Top News In other news around the...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is doing everything it can to ensure that the Chromebook becomes a long-term success. In addition to the cheap plastic machines that retail for $200, Google has built a $1,300 notebook for high-end users who work in the cloud. These efforts are part of the company's long-...

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is currently taking $100 off the price of any Windows 8 touch screen PC, resulting in a discount of at least 10 percent for most machines. According to DigiTimes, prices could go even lower. The supply chain publication said that, once the reported Windows 8 licensing fee...

When Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) created the Chrome OS platform, it hoped to build the next great operating system. The company had no idea this would lead to internal competition between the two platforms. Right now, Chrome OS is the company's dominant system for notebooks. Acer, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE...

Every year, analysts argue about whether or not Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should be split up. Stifel Nicolaus is leading the charge this time around, arguing that the firm needs to divide its key businesses into separate units. "The time has come for MSFT's Board to begin serious discussions around...

When designing Windows 8, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) made a brilliant movie: it decided to scrap the old, mouse-friendly interface and focus on touch. The company knew this was risky; bloggers and analysts told them so for months! It was a risk Microsoft wanted to take. The Xbox maker knew that, as...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is throwing its full support behind the next version of Surface by sending a large number of units to retail. According to DigiTimes, Microsoft will have an initial shipment volume of one million units when Surface Windows 8 Pro ships next week. In the report, DigiTimes...

When you’re charged with saving the PC market, you have some big shoes to fill. So far, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) isn’t filling them. On Thursday, Microsoft reported earnings and Wall Street is not impressed. In pre-market trading Friday, the stock is down more than 1 percent. The Redmond,...

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest OS, the touch-friendly Windows 8, is scheduled to receive a massive price increase next month. The company detailed its new pricing strategy today while reminding consumers that the lower, introductory prices were always intended to be a limited-time offer. On...

From Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), tech companies endured a rough holiday shopping season as consumers tightened their belts and held on to their existing computers. Two of those firms are currently on the rise. Hewlett-...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) did everything it could to increase sales of the MacBook in 2012. It failed. Buried deep within its report on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and overall holiday sales, researchers at NPD revealed that MacBook sales decreased during the holiday sales period (November 18 to December...

The world is bursting with anticipation for new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) products. When asked to vote on the biggest tech story of 2012, however, consumers did not choose Surface, the arrival of Windows 8 or Apple's Retina Display technology as producing the "biggest" tech...

Two months ago, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released Windows 8, the long-awaited upgrade to its popular operating system. Somewhere around 40 million licenses were purchased in the first month. Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Dell (NYSE: DELL) were among the companies to benefit from the release of Windows 8....

Sales of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8 appear to be off to a slow start, according to a report from The New York Times. The paper cited Acer's President of the Americas division, Emmanuel Fromont, who told The New York Times there's “no question” that sales are sluggish. Across the board,...

There are a number of reasons for Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) precipitous decline on Wednesday. Benzinga discussed the rumor that a securities clearinghouse was going to raise its margin requirements for Apple shares here. Other analysts cited Wednesday's news that Apple rival Nokia (NYSE: NOK) had...