Google's profit rose 26 percent despite slower growth
Third-quarter profit increased 26 percent to $1.35 billion, a strong showing that might be enough to reassure jittery investors.
- New contracts lift IBM's profit 20 percent
- AMD reports eighth consecutive loss
- Nokia posts 30 percent slide in profit

AMD reports eighth consecutive loss
The chip maker reported a loss as it prepares to spin off its manufacturing operations in a last-ditched effort to turn things around.
- New contracts lift IBM's profit 20 percent
- Nokia posts 30 percent slide in profit

New contracts lift IBM's profit 20 percent
IBM said that its third-quarter profit jumped nearly 20 percent, surpassing analyst estimates, as the technology company overcame slumping hardware sales and signed a healthy number of new services contracts.

Nokia posts 30 percent slide in profit
But investors were relieved by the expectations of a rebound by the world's largest phone maker.
- Finmeccanica to push ahead with stock sale despite market turmoil

Consumer spending slowdown affects eBay growth
For the first time, eBay's gross merchandise volume, the total sum of all transactions on the eBay Marketplace, declined in the third quarter.

Google phone delivers, but not a knockout blow
Assessing the first Google phone, the T-Mobile G1, is tricky, because it's the sum of three parts. Google wrote the software, HTC made the hardware and T-Mobile provides the network.

Little laptops, big decisions
Also: Leapfrog's digital flashcard device and a projector for video games from BenQ.

Fixing kinks in Blu-ray audio
When I play a regular DVD in my Blu-ray disc player, the sound is fine. But when I stick in a Blu-ray movie, I have to crank the volume to the maximum level in order to hear it. How do I fix that?

Tesla to lay off employees and delay its all-electric Sedan until 2011
Tesla, the poster child for Silicon Valley's push into "clean technology," has had a particularly difficult year, with executive turnover and production delays for its first car, a $109,000 all-electric roadster.

Latest unveiling at Apple: The metal MacBook
The new versions of the company's MacBook Pro and MacBook portable computers are carved from 2.5-pound, or 1.1-kilogram, blocks of aluminum.
- Apple may have missed a chance to broaden its market
- Intel warns slowdown could hurt chip demand