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Shares of Apple were near a record $500 on Friday as the company's stock continued its impressive beginning to the new year.

Despite impressive revenue growth, professional social networking site LinkedIn's costs grew even faster in the third quarter, resulting in a $1.6 million net loss.

Analysts expect search giant to report lower revenues when it announces Q2 earnings on Thursday.

Computer maker Dell is set to deliver fiscal 2012 first-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday, giving analysts and industry observers some sense of where PC shipments.

Shares of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) were down 91 cents, or 2.4 percent, to 36.88 early Thursday afternoon after the wireless carrier reported it more than tripled net income in the first quarter.

Shares of Cisco Systems plunged more than 13 percent in early trading Thursday after the networking equipment vendor issued a disappointing profit forecast and warned of a slowdown in government spending, a major source of the company's revenue.

Troubled Internet company Yahoo reported a decline in fourth-quarter revenue after the market closed Tuesday, causing shares to plunge in after-hours trading.

You know how every so often your local newspaper reports about elderly people being swindled out of money by shady contractors who trick them into paying for unnecessary home repairs, like a repaved driveway or new gutters? To me, that's sort of what AOL is doing.

Shares of IBM (NYSE: IBM) were up nearly 3 percent in midday trading on Wednesday after Big Blue reported a 9 percent increase in net income for its fiscal fourth quarter. (Also see: IBM Q4 net income rises 9 percent)

It looks like a lot of those questions about Facebook's financial numbers are being answered.

How proprietary software and the money that comes with it will always be forever entwined with open source (and, by extension, free) software.

Waiting for people to "return to their senses" has never been a good business strategy, not when there's money to be made from trends and novelty.