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Microsoft continued to expand its television offerings for members of its Xbox Live Gold service Monday by adding HBO Go, Major League Baseball video and Comcast’s on-demand video service. Comcast Xfinity TV allows Xbox Gold members to access the cable carrier’s expansive library of entertainment programming whenever they want it.
For a short time Thursday, the per-share price of Apple’s stock vaulted over the $600 mark, quite a feat for a stock that just hit $500 per share 22 trading days ago. While Apple’s stay above $600 per share has been short-lived so far, it hasn’t discourage some analysts from quickly recalculating their expectations for AAPL.
Google tore down the silos around its app, music, movie and ebook stores Tuesday and melded them into a single outlet called "Google Play." The move emulates Apple’s highly successful iTunes model. "It was arguably an inevitable move," said IDC Analyst Bob O’Donnell.
Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes in the search giant’s privacy policies set to take effect on March 1. "[W]e have notified over 350 million authenticated Google users and provided highly visible notifications on our homepage and in search results for our non-authenticated users," said Google’s Peter Fleischer.
Apple won a round Thursday in its fight for ownership of the iPad name in China, but the bout is far from over. The world’s most valuable publicly traded company gained its victory when a Shanghai court refused to block the sale of iPads in the city pending the outcome of a lawsuit over the iPad name.