Catch up Bill Gates's keynote at the Office Developers Conference.

"Phone out" integrated in Yahoo! Messenger allows call from personal computer to regular phones with 2cents or less a minute to top 30 US's phone markets, and varying rates to total of 180 countries which 20-30% lower than Skype's, outside of US.

Startup entrepreneurs were told to be wary with MSFT's product:

"They have to expand into new software markets" to meet their growth targets, he said. "You have to think about whether that is one Microsoft ultimately wants to own."

But would it be the jumping stones?

Europe's biggest telecommunication group, Deutsche Telekom deploys MSFT softwares for its internet-based TV services.

92 foreign airlines were banned by EU due to its unsafety and flight crashes which killed hundreds of european travelers.

Wall Street's 2nd biggest trader, Morgan Stanley, smiled with 1Q's revenue earnings rose 17%, mostly from stocks, bonds and commodities transaction, overcoming decline in brokerage unit.

"Revenue climbed 24 percent to $8.48 billion, buoyed by oil, electricity and gas trading, and Morgan Stanley's traditional strengths in equity and debt."

Shares of US's 5th biggest drugmaker, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., and French partner Sanofi-Aventis SA surged after settle of lawsuit, which keeping a generic version of their blood thinner Plavix off the market until 2011. Agreement is reached where the companies to pay Apotex Inc. an unspecified amount to delay its introduction of a less expensive, generic copy of Plavix that would have hurt sales of the branded medicine. Plavix, the world's 2nd biggest drug behind Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor, generated almost $6bil in sales last year for Sanofi and Bristol-Myers, which jointly market the drug.

China to surpass US as largest exporter of manufactured goods?

FedEx Corp. topped analyst estimate on Q3's growth; Nike beats Wall Street projection in Q3.

Rejection of being takeover offer from ITV Plc, Britain's 2nd largest broadcaster, led to 10% jump of shares.

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