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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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With Windows 7, PCs looking better

Although no one waits in long lines for a new edition of Windows software anymore, the debut of Microsoft’s latest operating system is part of why buying a PC is starting to feel fun for the first time in years.

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