Editor's Note: Related tickers: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA).

Tech blog Engadget is reporting that Microsoft is allowing school educators to order the portable devices that hit the market late last year for as little as $199 apiece, a seemingly dramatic 60% savings off the $499 retail price.

Apple received fewer account data requests from governmental agencies compared to its big tech peers, the company says. PRINT.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) also posted the narrowest of losses. Reports that the company will turn to QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) to supply some chips for new versions of its Surface RT tablet were bad news for NVIDIA, which is the ...

Unless you're a hardcore user, you could probably get by running Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Word and an Internet browser with a five-year-old computer today.

Websense Inc. (NASDAQ:WBSN) is currently in the process of tendering all of its shares to Vista Equity Partners. This move follows a string of previous technology buyouts and highlights the growing competitive pressures that upstart companies face in a ...

Founded 38 years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) helped launch the first great wave of an information technology transformation; it remains the world's largest software developer with sales topping $73 billion in fiscal 2012.

This decision has been in the works for some time and is partially a defensive response to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s iWork announcement.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is almost unapologetically like most other tech companies, especially the big ones - there is very little innovation, just upgraded tweaks to what another company already developed.

With Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Windows 8 flop and the firm's restriction on gamers in its upcoming Xbox One release, it looked as if the company couldn't get more bad press.