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Microsoft to study Japan's digital lifestyle
Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit plans to study more closely the use of digital technology in the lives of average Japanese to gain insight that it might use overseas.

Google Bags Postini to Shore Up Applications
Google today took a major step toward protecting its Web applications business by bidding to acquire partner and on-demand security software maker Postini for $625 million in cash.

Bay Area leaders meet to chart telecommunications infrastructure
A number of Silicon Valley employers will join a meeting to chart "a major rework" of the Bay Area's information and communication technology infrastructure. Among those joining the planning session on Monday at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation will be Cupertino-based Apple, Cisco , Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corp.

Clinton urges Indian businesses to invest in U.S.
In a conference of Indian business leaders gathered in Santa Clara, California, Clinton said Friday that many global businesses are eager to sell to American consumers, while at the same time American jobs are being exported to lower wage countries.
Offshoring eliminates good-paying jobs in the U.S. and threatens the middle class, she said. While the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product, a measure of economic activity.

Posted at 01:44PM Jul 09, 2007 by barkodar in General  |  Comments[0]