Microsoft this week gave another solid quarterly report card to Wall Street, as it plows ahead in selling its cloud computing services to big businesses and the government. The company reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $11.6 billion, up 36 percent ...

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming patent-licensing firm Acacia Research Corp. breached a contract between the two companies.

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Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, must alter its popular Word software or stop selling the product after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian company. The company, based in Redmond, Wash., ...

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Apple Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. won an appeals court ruling that limits the amount they would have to pay in patent damages for products that are shipped outside the U.S. A U.S. appeals court, ruling Wednesday in ...

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Top lawyers from Coca-Cola Co., Microsoft Corp. and 12 other Fortune 500 companies joined five top U.S. law firms to form a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting women and minorities in the legal profession. The New York-based Leadership Council on ...

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Economist Carl B. Shapiro, who endorsed the Clinton administration’s plan to break up Microsoft Corp. as an expert witness, has rejoined the U.S. Justice Department as the antitrust division’s chief economist, people familiar with the appointment said. Shapiro’s choice is ...

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Charter Communications, the money-losing cable-television company, said it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a financial restructuring on or before April 1. Charter said Thursday in a statement that it reached an agreement with a committee ...

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