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AMD's dream deflated by billions of dollars of losses and a hefty pile of debt

Google and microsoft post disappointing results as slump widens; AMD's CEO steps down

The orphaned Raven has found a parent. MacroGenics, a Rockville biotech, announced yesterday that it bought cancer drug developer Raven Biotechnologies of South San Francisco, Calif. Until last March, it looked like another biotech firm would be adopting Raven. VaxGen, also of South San Francisco...

The Major League Baseball association is seeking action against a free iphone application called Baseball (opens in iTunes), regarding its use of MLB team logos throughout the app. PC World reveals the app contains thousands of team and player statistics, reaching back to 1888, all the way until the current baseball season. On Monday, Mark Knopper ...

What's the most popular phone to surf the Internet with? Hint: It's not the iphone or the BlackBerry.

In a letter to shareholders, Yahoo said Carl Icahn's agenda presents a "significant risk" to the value of Yahoo stock, and that it would only sell itself to microsoft under the right terms.

Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that its chief executive, Hector Ruiz, was stepping down, to be replaced immediately by Dirk Meyer, the president and chief operating officer.

The European Commission said that it had added three new charges against Intel, and warned that it might order Intel to change its behavior under threat of large fines that could total 10 percent of its global revenue.

Quarterly net income soared 29 percent at the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade Holding because of growth in the number of trades handled and in asset-based revenue.

Google and microsoft issued quarterly results on Thursday that disappointed investors.