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Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on Aug. 30. According to the court filing, Google officials had met with the Interior department several times, and pursued discussions in correspondence, ...

Milan), is a multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. As of March ...

Earlier this year when I wrote about President Obama's intention to change the way the federal government taxes overseas profits earned by multinationals with offshore operations, I shared the sentiment of a Silicon Valley lobbyist who said on a Richter scale of ...

Eighty years ago this fall the 1929 stock market crash raised the curtain on the Great Depression. The Justice Department will investigate the recently announced Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people )-Yahoo ( YHOO - news - people ) deal that ...

One of the big complaints about the Obama administration is that it is reactive and, as a result, is increasingly seemingly ineffective in keeping the nation's focus on the real problem (the economy, if anyone was guessing) and actually fixing anything. Sun ...

While European regulators are showing a continued interest in regulating Microsoft, the Obama administration may have its sights set elsewhere. White House spokesman Ben LaBolt told Bloomberg News that the president nominated Varney "to vigorously enforce the law" and "is confident that ...

Two days after President Barack Obama, in his inaugural speech, told the country to brace itself for tough times, the head of one of the most valuable U.S. companies echoed the sentiment. "We're certainly in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime set of ...

Barack Obama became the 44th, and first African-American, president of the U.S. on an Inauguration Day that captured the world's attention and provided a flurry of technology-related headlines. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president Tuesday, with Inauguration Day ...

But between the announcement of the Yahoo deal on February 1, 2008, and Monday, Microsoft's lobbying spending zoomed upward to $24.72 million. In return for millions of dollars distributed to Washington insiders, Microsoft could save billions on an eventual Yahoo purchase. Even ...

Over the past few years, the technology industry has discovered that those pesky bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. actually wield a lot of power. Microsoft, in particular, learned years ago that a little money goes a long way to stave off antitrust lawyers, ...

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