I'm at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, where Nvidia (NVDA) is hosting its special event for press. There is a variety of thoughts floating around about what the show could offer, including details about the so-called Project Denver, or the next Tegra application processor, Tegra 4. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang comes on stage. Huang starts [...]

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What's not to like about ConocoPhillips? It offers both production growth and a high dividend yield. But trying to please everyone is an exhausting processliterally for oil companies.

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From Yahoo! Finance: SAN DIEGO, Jan. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative diagnostic testing and genetic analysis solutions, today announced preliminary highlights ...

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Laus bribery and money-laundering trial in Macau was delayed for a second time after his lawyer told the court the chairman of Hong Kong-listed Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd. is ill.

Most technology companies these days are favoring hip locations like Midtown South, Chelsea and the Meatpacking District. So it might seem a bit odd that, after months of looking, Microsoft Corp. has decided to move its New York operations to 11 Times Square, a recent development across the street from the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

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Yandex NV, trading at its biggest discount to Google Inc. since October, is losing the confidence of investors on concern the Russian search engine will forfeit market share to its U.S. competitor after an antitrust ruling.