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Microsoft is said to be starting an expensive campaign to reassure consumers that its Vista operating system isn’t all that bad.

Live blogging from Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.

The online retailer Amazon.com reported that net income for the second quarter more than doubled on strong sales.

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Telecommunication companies in the U.S. have to juggle the financial effect of customers dropping their landlines, and increased competition between wireless operators.

Yahoo said that its revenue in the second quarter grew a sluggish 6 percent from the same period a year earlier as profits fell.

The nation’s largest discount brokerage Charles Schwab said that it had appointed Walter W. Bettinger II as president and chief executive, to succeed its founder.

Vodafone, the world’s largest cellphone operator, said it was cutting its revenue forecast for the year to around $79.6 billion, the lower end of its previous estimate.

Despite reassurances that he is cancer free four years after he was treated for pancreatic cancer, analysts are worried that Steven P. Jobs might be sick again.

E*Trade posted a net loss of $94.6 million, or 19 cents a share, in contrast to a profit of $159.1 million, or 37 cents a share, a year earlier.

The company said that its second-quarter net income rose 30 percent from the same period a year earlier while inkjet printer sales fell 49 percent.

European venture capital firm Wellington Partners has opened a Silicon Valley office to help its investors and entrepreneurs bridge the cultural divide.

As travel costs rise and airlines cut back service, companies large and small are rethinking the face-to-face meeting — and business travel as well.

Yahoo’s board and management earned a reprieve after a weekend deal ended a bruising and acrimonious fight for control of the company with Carl C. Icahn.

The two companies want to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the products being advertised and promoted on commercials and talk shows.

Apple, the third-largest personal computer maker in the United States, continued to benefit from the significant market share gains of its Macintosh computer line.

The chipmaker posted lower quarterly profit and revenue as growth in analog chips was offset by weakness in its wireless chip business.

Brocade said the deal was more about growth than cost savings, and that it would provide a broader range of networking technologies to support increasing Web traffic.

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John Markoff reporting for The New York Times:

But in recent weeks, Mr. Jobs has reassured several people that he
is doing well and that four years after a successful operation to
treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he is cancer free.

People who are close to Mr. Jobs say that he had a surgical
procedure this year to address a problem that was contributing to
a loss of weight. These people declined to be identified because
Mr. Jobs had not authorized them to speak about his health.

And that’s the end of that, thankfully.