When you look at the icons that many of us have littered around our desktop there is no denying that other than being program launching points they are pretty useless. In fact I dislike them so much that

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Just a week after Dell announced its plans to acquire data-storage company 3PAR, rival Hewlett-Packard has made a competing bid. HP is offering $24 per share, 33 percent higher than Dell’s bid, giving 3PAR...»

So the rumors of the last few days have proven true, and Intel is buying McAfee. But the...»

Cloud computing is taking a major chunk of over all investments in the computing field. The most recent example is that of Nimbula. The company announced securing further investments, an amount of $15...»

Federated Media has announced its acquisition of the core technology behind TextDigger, a search engine startup. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Launched as a project at a CNET incubator, TextDigger’s...»

The value of Linden Lab, which operates the virtual world Second Life, has plunged by more than 21%, according to SharesPost, which tracks the private secondary market.

In late June, Linden Lab brought back

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Kara Swisher goes to Chegg headquarters to meet the Chegg team and interview Dan Rosensweig. As I reported first on Chegg plans to go public, Dan Rosensweig was hired to take Chegg to the next...»