Apple's Mac App Store: Morning Tech Bytes
NEW YORK (
) --
Apple
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rose 0.41% in pre-market trading Thursday to $321.68 after the company announced that its Mac App Store will open on Jan. 6. The store will be similar to the App Store on the iPhone, iPad Touch and iPad.
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had the largest share of the U.S. core search market in November with a 66.2% slice, according to industry tracker
ComScore
.
Yahoo!
(YHOO)
and
Microsoft's
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Bing followed, holding 16.4% and 11.8%, respectively.
Shares of Google rose 0.32% in pre-market trading to $592.20; shares of Microsoft were up 0.36% to $27.95.
Microsoft announced Wednesday it has kept its quarterly dividend flat at 16 cents a share. The dividend will be payable March 10, 2011 for shareholders as of Feb. 17, 2011.
Micro-blogging site
has raised $200 million in funding at a $3.7 billion valuation, according to
AllThingsDigital
. Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the funding round.
is likely to generate revenue of $2 billion this year, beating projected sales targets, according to
Bloomberg
. The company had sales of $700 million to $800 million last year.
--Written by Olivia Oran in New York.
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