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Technology Report: Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content

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Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content
LISBON (Reuters) - Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council said on Thursday.
U.S. judge narrows Google patent suit against Microsoft
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge narrowed a patent lawsuit brought by Google's Motorola Mobility unit against Microsoft Corp, finding that parts of three Motorola patents are invalid.
Activist investor sues Apple in bid to unlock its cash
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. on Thursday confronted its first major challenge from an activist shareholder in years as hedge fund manager David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital filed suit against the company and demanded that it dole out a bigger piece of its $137 billion cash pile to investors.
BlackBerry to stop selling handsets in Japan - Nikkei
(Reuters) - BlackBerry will stop selling smartphones in Japan, partly because the company cannot justify the cost of modifying its operating system to accommodate the Japanese language, the Nikkei business daily reported.
AppliedMicro sees future in low-power server chips
SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Chipmaker Applied Micro Circuits Corp believes selling low-power processors for cloud data centers run by the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon.com Inc could account for half of its business within three years.
Swedish Skype-rival Rebtel may list in 2-3 years: CEO
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Rebtel, which says it is the world's second-biggest provider of voice calls over the Internet after Skype, could go for a stock market listing in the next two to three years if it meets its growth targets, its CEO said.
U.S. appeals court takes up closely watched patent fight
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court is set to consider a case closely watched by Google Inc, Facebook Inc and other technology companies that could determine how far the patent system should go in protecting software inventions.
BlackBerry strengthens board with two wireless industry veterans
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry named two wireless industry veterans to an expanded board of directors on Thursday, seeking to allay some investor concern around the level of industry experience it has on its board.
Monster Worldwide reports loss; exits Brazil, Mexico & Turkey
(Reuters) - Online recruitment company Monster Worldwide Inc, which is up for sale, reported a quarterly loss and said it had exited its businesses in some developing markets to focus on its core North American and European businesses.
Exclusive: Microsoft and Symantec disrupt cyber crime ring
BOSTON (Reuters) - Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users.
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