|                                                |   |  |                                                           |  |                                | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday said consolidated   revenue rose to $14.89 billion in the third quarter from $13.3   billion in the year-ago period. |  |  |                                                |                                                            |   |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | TORONTO (Reuters) - Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo has   signed a non-disclosure deal to examine the books of troubled   Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd, the Wall Street Journal   said on Thursday, quoting unnamed sources. |  |  |  |                                                |                                                            |    |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday posted   stronger- than-expected third-quarter earnings and revenue driven   by wireless growth, sending its shares up 4 percent. |  |  |  |                                                |                                                            |    |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | (Reuters) - EBay Inc shares fell as much as 6 percent on Thursday   after the e-commerce company forecast a lackluster holiday quarter,   prompting at least nine brokerages to cut share-price targets. |  |  |  |                                                |                                                            |   |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Chief Financial Officer   Fran Shammo said Apple Inc's iPhone 5C "undersold expectations"   in the third quarter, while its pricier iPhone 5S was in short   supply. |  |  |  |                                                |                                                            |   |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens' new Chief Executive Joe Kaeseris   is returning more power to lower-level managers around the world   with the aim of making the engineering group more nimble. |  |  |  |                                                |                                                            |   |  |                                                                       |  |                                      | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics has offered to stop   taking rivals such as Apple to court in Europe over patent disputes   in order to end an antitrust investigation, European Union regulators   said on Thursday. |  |  |  |                                                 |   |  |                                                           |  |                                | (Reuters) - IBM Corp shares fell more than 7 percent on Thursday   after a surprisingly steep drop in hardware sales in China fueled   concerns the company is struggling to sustain growth through   its emerging markets business. |  |  |                                                 |                                                           |  |                                | (Reuters) - Chipmaker ParkerVision Inc said a federal jury in   Florida found Qualcomm Inc guilty of direct and indirect infringement   of the company's patents, sending ParkerVision shares up as   much as 75 percent. |  |  |                                                 |   |  |                                                           |  |                                | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - America Movil might yet come back to the   table for talks on taking over KPN, the head of the Dutch telecoms   group said on Thursday after the Mexican company controlled   by billionaire Carlos Slim pulled its offer. |  |  |  |                                               |  |                          |                                                           |  |                                |  |                                |                                                                       | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. 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