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Researcher Gartner issues report saying Apple’s Mac OS X clawed away the biggest percentage gains in smartphone sales.

Software behemoth strikes a deal to provide its operating system to the low-cost laptop nonprofit that promises to bring laptops to every kid in the world. Will Microsoft make inroads, like Apple, with youth market or will it get pummeled by Linux geeks?

Startup picks up $9.5 million in a third round from investors interested in its smart phone content distribution.

Purple Labs of Chambéry, France, says it has attracted $14.5 million to fund its embedded Linux for mobile in a first round led by Sofinnova Partners that includes Earlybird and Partners Group investors.