bing_microsoftBing swing: New search engine ups Redmond's share SEATTLE — In the week since Microsoft Corp. launched Bing, its new search engine, the software maker's share of U.S. Web searches has crept into double digits for the first time in two years. But Bing's early gain is no predictor of future success. After all, the last time that happened, Microsoft had resorted to paying people to use Bing's predecessor, known as Live Search.
Texas Instruments, Ceradyne are big movers NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Texas Instruments Inc., up $1.25 at $21.02 The chip maker hiked its profit and sales guidance for the quarter ending in June, signalling a rebound for the semiconductor sector.
t-mobile-T-Mobile: No security breach in alleged hacking BELLEVUE, Washington — T-Mobile USA Inc. said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a hacker claimed this weekend to have accessed the company's servers. T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG in Germany, said it was investigating the allegation and found no evidence that hackers got any customer or company information.
pokerAPNewsBreak: Group says poker winnings are frozen WASHINGTON — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department long has maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.
webby_logoWebby winners take awards with 5-word speeches NEW YORK — Who needs Twitter's 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. Sticking to the Webbys' tradition of acceptance speeches limited to just five words, he said: "Creativity is a renewable resource."
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