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'Swap your Yahoo shares for Google'

Investors should swap their shares of Yahoo Inc for those of Google Inc because Yahoo’s advertising revenues are on the decline while Google’s are rising, Barron’s reported in its Oct. 26 edition.

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Theatres build momentum for home 3D

Fans scrambled to see 3-D movies such as “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” in theaters this year and new 3-D televisions could soon have home viewers feeling as if they’re surrounded by a spaghetti hurricane on their couches.

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Internet ‘a teenager’ at 40

SAN FRANCISCO - Leonard Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day 40 years ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet.

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Windows 7: More secure and more fun

First impressions are important - and Windows 7 doesn’t blow its chance. Even during the installation process, the new operating system from Microsoft - available in most of the world since October 22 - makes life easy for the user. That means more convenience and speed than Vista was able to provide. And Microsoft has included many new functions as well.

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Facebook revamps home page feed

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Friday modified its news feed feature to let members of the world’s leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website.

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Icahn resigns from Yahoo! board

NEW YORK - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn resigned Friday from his position on the Yahoo! board, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an “activist” director like him.

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Is '7' a lucky number for Windows?

Microsoft on Thursday launched the next version of Windows, dubbed Windows 7. The problem is: a majority of current Windows users still use XP, which is getting to be nine years old now.

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Long lines as Microsoft opens retail store

SCOTTSDALE - The idea that hundreds of people would line up outside anything to do with Microsoft would have been far-fetched only a few years ago—but on Thursday that’s what happened when the software giant opened its first retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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