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Dell 3Q profit falls as PC spending slows
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Dell says its third-quarter profit fell 5 percent as businesses around the world spent less on computers.
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Web ad sales rise slightly from prior quarter
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Despite the bad economy, U.S. Internet advertising revenue rose in the third quarter, according to an analysis released today.
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Valley home sales up 24% in October, but median price falls 34%
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Santa Clara County home sales spiked 24 percent in October compared with the same month last year. But that increase may be short-lived, some in the real estate industry say, because the plunging stock market and economic uncertainty have led many people to put their home-buying plans on hold.
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Microsoft's Zune jams to new marketing beat
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A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, 'Universal Mind Control,' begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics. It takes hitting rewind a few times to notice that the music player isn't one of Apple's slim new iPods. It's a Zune, and it's made by Microsoft.
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Bay Area mayors endorse $1 billion plan for electric cars
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The Bay Area's big city mayors, including San Jose's Chuck Reed, have endorsed a plan by a Palo Alto start-up to create a $1 billion infrastructure by 2012 for electric cars in the region.
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