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Twitter said to be profitable (Chicago Tribune)

The social-networking site will get about $25 million from agreements with Google and Microsoft, enough to push it into the black for the first time, sources say. Twitter Inc. will make about $25 million from Internet-search deals with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced in October, enough to push the site into profitability, people familiar [...]

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Performance problems delay Visual Studio 2010 release

Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday.
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Embarrassed Microsoft Apologizes for Code Theft (NewsFactor)

Microsoft was accused  that its Juku micro-blogging service for China contained code and design elements stolen from Plurk.com.  Microsoft apologized and said it “assumes responsibility for this situation” and would suspend “access to the Juku beta indefinitely.”
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Microsoft offers Bing SDK for iPhone, Mac

Microsoft is offering an open source software development kit linking the company’s Bing search engine to Apple’s iPhone and Mac systems, according to a Bing community blog post on Thursday.
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Bing Goes Live, Some Bloggers Shocked to Find Porn

PC World – Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is now live, two days ahead of schedule, available for anyone to use.
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Microsoft Ditches Windows 7 Starter App Limit

PC World – Windows 7 Starter Edition took some criticism with its three-application limit. Today, however, Microsoft announced on its WIndows Team Blog that it would be removing the three-application limit on Windows 7 Starter, and that Windows 7 Starter will be available worldwide for use on “small notebook PCs,” which presumably means it’ll be [...]

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Microsoft’s Zune HD Coming in Fall With OLED, HD Radio

PC World – A month after many details of Microsoft’s new Zune HD player were leaked by blogs, the company finally made it official on Wednesday. The Zune HD will arrive in the U.S. sometime this fall and comes with an OLED touchscreen and HD radio among its main features.
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Microsoft offers parallel apps language

Microsoft is offering its .Net language for building parallel applications — Axum — enabling developers to build scalable applications for multcore systems via the .Net Framework, a Microsoft official said in a blog entry.
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