Dow Heads Skyward on Good News: Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ), Intel Corporation (INTC)

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Microsoft has set its sights once again on Google, with another set of targeted “Scroogled” ads. This time, Mr. Softy has focused on issues of privacy, with daggers thrown at Google’s use of personal information and data use for targeted ads, etc. Microsoft also got good news on Thursday, when a judge threw out 13 patent infringement claims against it from Google-owned Motorola Mobility. With all that good news for the software giant, it decided to share the wealth with an announcement that is sure to please many of its SkyDrive users. Hitting the 1 billion document milestone was a great feat for Microsoft, and spreading the wealth, the company has announced that users can now share and edit documents without having to sign into an Office Web Apps account.

A bit of bad news
The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA)
got some good news yesterday when the FAA allowed the company to test-fly one of its 787 Dreamliners. But as the company continues to work on its lithium-ion battery issues, it warned customers with near-term Dreamliner deliveries that they may have to wait. This news has sent the stock down more than 1% so far in trading today.

The article Dow Heads Skyward on Good News originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Jessica Alling.

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