Chip start-up Tilera lands $45 million in funding

Samsung Ventures, as an illustration, is targeting cloud computing, network security, and wireless and multimedia applications, the company said.

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A day afterwards Apple announced Steve Jobs' medical leave, on an revenues call to report the company's best financial performance ever, Tim Cook assures analysts and investors that Jobs' "culture of research" will continue at the company.

In part three of a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Microsoft's new phone software, Ina Fried takes a look at Redmond's massive testing operation.