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U.S. stocks ended a four day rally which saw the S&P 500 hit historical all-time highs. However, during Wednesday's trading session the ten-year Treasury yield traded as low as 2.439 percent, the lowest level seen since June 2013. Volume remained below average during Wednesday's trading...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) founder Bill Gates made waves when he said that he would support company CEO Satya Nadella if he decided to spin off the Xbox division. But that doesn't mean a spinoff is actually going to happen. It could present an interesting opportunity for investors to buy into...

Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) next iPad isn't expected to be released for another six or seven months, but the first iPad Air 2 concepts have already surfaced. These aren't official concepts -- Apple does its best to keep those behind closed doors. But Josh Beatty, the founder and CEO of...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Executive Vice President of the operating system group, Terry Myerson said Wednesday that the company would be bringing back a Start menu and windowed Metro-Style/Modern apps to a future update to Windows 8.1, according to ZDNet. The announcement came during Myerson...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to launch its first Xbox TV shows during the first half of 2014. According to Variety, Entertainment and Digital Media President Nancy Tellem said that she hopes the company can "put something up" in the first or second quarter. Speaking at Variety's Dealmakers...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new consoles will continue to be in high demand, but their dominance could be challenged in a few years. According to DigiTimes, the upstream supply chain expects to see "strong orders" for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 components during the first...

After much anticipation, Janet Yellen was officially nominated as Federal Reserve Chairperson this morning. Yellen offered no surprises during her testimony, which was prepared in advance and made public last night. U.S. markets, as expected, edged slightly higher to continue the rally that was...

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is ready to release a game console in China. According to market intelligence and consulting firm Marbridge Consulting, Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai has confirmed that the company will bring its game console business to China. The company will begin by establishing a "...

Is it possible for one product to control the week's biggest headlines? If any, some might expect it to be the iPhone. But this week Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) proved that another one of its products -- the iPad -- can dominate the media unlike any other. There were so many iPad-related stories that...

Activist investor, Carl Icahn, isn’t the only one giving unsolicited advice to a large corporation. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder, Paul Allen, said he thinks the company should consider spinning off its consumer businesses including search advertising and the Xbox games console division...

Gaming has come into its own in the New Millenium. What started in the post World War II years with pinball machines and arcade games has morphed into a multi-billion dollar industry -- which rivals even Hollywood in both production and profits. Since the introduction of the iPhone and its...

In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...

Gambling, in both the online and physical worlds is all about generating excitement. Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) hoped to generate some excitement of its own Wednesday as it prepared to unwrap its real-money gambling apps for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and for mobile. San Francisco-based, Zynga said that...

As part of an effort to achieve “functional coherence,” Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer may be set to reveal the company’s restructuring plan as early as Thursday, July 11, according to AllThingsD. When it comes to defining functional coherence, Microsoft is less than specific,...

Coinciding with the hiring of former Hulu exec., Pete Distad, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is said to be closing in on a deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) to give Time Warner subscribers access to cable channels via Apple TV. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources with “knowledge of the...