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Microsoft’s new mobile devices get cautious reception

Microsoft (MSFT) earned high marks for the new products it unveiled Tuesday, but Wall Street analysts doubt that these latest smartphones, tablet-notebook convertibles and wearable devices will be big sales drivers for the company. At a product launch event in New York City, Microsoft showed off new Lumia smartphones, the Surface Pro 4 tablet with attachable keyboard and the Surface Book notebook PC with detachable tablet display. It also trotted

Activision’s ‘Black Ops 3’ rated most-wanted holiday game

The most-anticipated multiplatform video game this holiday season is Activision Blizzard’s (ATVI) military shooter game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3,” according to a survey by Nielsen (NLSN). “Black Ops 3” is tops on the Nielsen Game Rank study, with a rating of 98%. The latest game in the popular “Call of Duty” franchise is due out Nov. 6 for Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles, Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 4 and PS3, and Windows PCs.

Emerging Markets: India's New Technology Boom

Who would have thought 10 years ago that an Indian Prime Minister would come to the United States, and specifically Silicon Valley, and be hailed as a superstar, cavorting with the likes of Cheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and the other titans from Microsoft and Google? How did this all happen? How did India, let