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The No. 1 PC maker's shares got a boost Monday after it announced an additional $10 billion for share repurchases.

After months of talk, Dell brought its Aero smartphone to the U.S. on Tuesday. The Aero uses an older version of Google's Android operating system called "cupcake." Will it prove to be stale -- or still a treat?

In a further sign of how far the convergence of PCs and TVs has truly gone, Intel is acquiring Texas Instruments' cable modem business, the chip maker announced Monday.

StarCraft II, the sequel to one of the most popular PC games of all time, has been a dozen years in the making. But the wait has paid off. Game maker Blizzard Entertainment says it sold 1.5 million copies in the first 48 hours after launch.

After PC buying stalled during the recession, it's time again to replace those old machines. Such buying kicked in during the second quarter, and it's buoying expectations that Dell's sales and earnings growth will regain badly needed vigor.

Intel's record earnings suggest that companies are starting to loosen up a bit on tech spending as they finally start replacing their four- and five-year-old PCs. This replacement cycle should bid up the stocks of companies in the IT sector. But how long will this wave of higher spending last?

Investors are looking for a strong showing from the bellwether chipmaker, which would offer further evidence that U.S. companies -- and tech firms in particular -- are continuing to emerge from the recession. Analysts expect Intel to come through.

In an extraordinary blog post, Frank Shaw presses a case for the company's primacy in tech -- clearly a reaction to its many critics and skeptics on Wall Street, given that Microsoft's share price is less than half what it was in 1999.

Semiconductor sales hit $23.1 billion in March, further solidifying the industry's growth after a brutal downturn a year ago, according to the closely watched Semiconductor Industry Association report. It was the second-best period on record after November 2007.

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