Thursday’s Tech Trends: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)’s Vision, Patent War Amid Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc (GOOG)

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Microsoft Corp. SVP Unloads $2,076,172 in Stock (MSFT) (WKRB13)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) SVP Lisa Brummel sold 64,238 shares of Microsoft Corp. stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, September 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $32.32, for a total transaction of $2,076,172.16. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 229,031 shares in the company. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link.

Apple Inc. is one of my best right now: Icahn (FinancialExpress)
Activist investor Carl Icahn said he bought more shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) on Wednesday as the company’s stock price slid. “At these levels, we’re buying quite a bit of stock,” Icahn told cable television network CNBC. He added that his investment firm “bought quite a bit today” as Apple shares traded in a range of $465-467 per share. Icahn did not say how many additional shares of Apple he bought on Wednesday when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares fell 5.4 percent to $467.71. The drop extended a 2.3 percent decline during the previous session after the company unveiled new Carl Icahns.

Google Leases Former Mall in Biggest ’13 Silicon Valley Deal (BusinessWeek)
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) agreed to rent a former shopping mall in Mountain View, California, in the largest Silicon Valley lease deal of the year, according to the property’s owners. The former mall is being renovated into an office complex, with completion scheduled for next year, real estate investment firm Rockwood Capital LLC said today in a statement. Rockwood, which has offices in San Francisco and White Plains, New York, owns the former Mayfield Mall in a venture with San Francisco-based Four Corners Properties. Once the renovation is completed, the campus will have more than 500,000 square feet (46,500 square meters) of office space on 27.6 acres (11.2 hectares).

Microsoft’s Concept Videos From 2000 Were Spot-On. So Why Didn’t Ballmer Build Any of It? (BusinessWeek)
On June 22, 2000, a few months after Steve Ballmer took over as CEO of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the company summoned several hundred reporters and analysts to a conference center at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Ballmer, under pressure from a U.S. antitrust case and super-hot dot-com rivals, was set to unveil his company’s vision for the future of computing.

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