Apple's Mac App Store: Morning Tech Bytes

Apple rose in pre-market trading Thursday after announcing that the Mac App Store will be launched Jan. 6.
By Olivia Oran ,

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

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.

Google

(GOOG) - Get Report

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

Twitter

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.

Facebook

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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