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AMD reached its lowest share price for more than four years last week and, as a result, its market value dropped to around US$5 billion – that’s $400 million less than it paid for ATI in July 2006. Intel, AMD’s major competitor in the CPU business, has been on a roll for the past 18 [...]

The chain’s 103 retail stores will remain open and staffed during the holiday season, offering discounts on computer and electronics. CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, has been sold to a restructuring and investment firm that will close stores and sell some company assets. The new owner is Boston-based [...]

Piracy rates are lower because it’s harder Microsoft said Monday that it’s seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP. Now cynical me wanted to write this up as “even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista,” but that wouldn’t be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates [...]

It was actually a ruse used by a co-worker to cover up an accidental vehicular homicide. Police and a doctor who examined the body of a 33-year-old quarry worker had said on Thursday the victim was found dead with a burning mobile phone stuck to his chest and they were looking into whether he was [...]

Google prepares to roll out its latest free service — where will the giant stop? While Google has its critics, the company seems to be one tech firm that is constantly in tune with what the consumer wants.  In terms of service, Google generally doesn’t waste time and effort cutting back or restricting its service, [...]

Google leads the way in search yet again, but Ask.com gains ground. Google once again was the giant among search sites, as it took a 58. 5 percent share of the search market in October in the United States. According to Internet ranking site ComScore, Google gained 1.5 share points versus the previous month. Yahoo [...]

See what sort of tone a company’s acquisitions set The LibraryHouse blog has a nice summary of recent acquisitions (July 2006 through June 2007) by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, roughly color coded by category:

Handheld makers saw their market contract substantially for the fifteenth consecutive quarter, down about 70% from its peak in 2002. Playing in the handheld market today – with “handheld” being defined as a PDA without cellphone capability – isn’t much fun. Once again, the shipment volume of such devices declined significantly in the third quarter [...]

The exact details of AT&T’s revenue-sharing agreement with Apple have not been disclosed, but one analyst thinks that over the two-year life of a user contract, the amount exceeds the actual price of the iPhone. Silicon Alley Insider spotted a research note from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster estimating that Apple is receiving $18 per month [...]

Microsoft beat out Google on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the Web phenomenon. Microsoft also clinched exclusive rights to sell ads on Facebook outside of the United States as part of the investment that valued Facebook at $15 [...]