Microsoft Thursday filed plans with securities regulators to tap the debt markets, raising money to pay for working capital, share buybacks, or other types of general corporate expenses.

Video game sales are expected to be strong this year and in 2009, despite the economic troubles that have hurt some retail stores that sell the games, industry executives said on Thursday.

A hefty tax gain boosted Computer Sciences' second-quarter net income and the U.S. technology services provider said it was confident it could weather the economic storm.

Surging demand for the latest iPhone and Blackberry models helped Apple and Research In Motion to win larger shares of the smartphone market in the third quarter at the expense of top vendor Nokia, market research firm Canalys said on Thursday.

Computer maker Dell, which is nearing the end of nearly 9,000 job cuts, is taking further steps to cut costs, including a global hiring freeze.

Electronic Arts shares tumbled Friday after the videogame maker slashed its full-year forecast, raising concerns that a slowdown in consumer spending may slam the videogame market.

Sun Microsystems is posting a large loss for its latest quarter. The maker of servers and business software wrote down the value of the company due to the slow economy and the huge decline in its stock price.

MTV Networks is expected to announce on Thursday a deal to use songs by The Beatles in its popular "Rock Band" video game series, marking the band's first major plunge into the digital music world.

The next upgrade of Office business software from Microsoft will include a version that edits word processing documents and spreadsheets inside a Web browser, the software maker said on Tuesday.

Germany's SAP scrapped its 2008 revenue outlook and cut its forecast for its full-year operating margin amid the global economic crisis but its CEO said the figures were still strong taking into account the current economic environment.

Microsoft reported a 2 percent rise in quarterly profit, driven by sales of new computer server software, and lowered its full-year earnings forecasts to account for a toughening economy.

International Business Machines reported results that rose over last year in line with pre-announced figures the company gave last week.

Apple touched up its line of laptop computers Tuesday with a minimal nod to the economic turmoil that might push consumers to be more frugal this holiday shopping season.

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