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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported strong fiscal third-quarter results and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) beat on the top-line in its first quarter, but the e-commerce platform's earnings took a hit from higher fulfillment costs. A common theme that ran through the quarterly results...

Can Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google Cloud compete with the two industry giants? And if it can’t, will it shift its focus elsewhere? A report in The Information suggested Google is pushing to have its cloud computing services unit beat at least one of the big two in the space,...

The announcement Monday that Stratasys’ (NASDAQ: SSYS) MakerBot and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) would collaborate to begin stocking 12 Home Depot stores with MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printers raises the obvious question, “Who’s next?” The 3D DIY Connection...

Using logic that might require some untwisting, the Chinese government last week banned the use of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8 operating system on government computers. According to Reuters, the ban was designed, in part, “to ensure computer security after Microsoft ended support for...

Don’t look for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) six percent share of the Chinese smartphone market to ramp up anytime soon. Despite the landmark deal with China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), Apple still has a distinct disadvantage in the world’s largest smartphone market. And that disadvantage, according to...

According to a new study by researchers at Canalys, 2014 should be a tipping point in the tablet market. Canalys believes that next year 50 percent of all “PCs” shipped around the world won’t be PCs in the traditional sense—they’ll be tablets. Reigning supreme will be tablets built on Google'...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) hopes to release its first printer toward the middle of 2014. This is big news for the company, which is known for selling twice as many traditional printers as its nearest competitor, Canon (NYSE: CAJ). Now the company wants a piece of the 3D printing pie. According...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) rarely comes close to attaining the most sales in the PC market. That's because the Mac, which achieved record sales in 2011 and 2012, rarely sells more than five million units per quarter. In 2013, Mac sales began to decline, creating some concern among market watchers. To...

There's good news and bad news for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this week. First it was revealed that, if you combine shipments of both tablets and computers, iPads account for one out of every six PCs shipped during the fourth quarter. Better still, if Apple were to combine sales of the iPad (which came...