Microsoft Corp. MSFT will give developers of fast-selling apps for its smartphone and tablet operating systems as much as 80% of revenue when it opens its Windows Store app market next year, according to two people familiar with the plan. Developers of apps that generate $25,000 or more per month will get to keep 80% of the sales, said the people who had been briefed by Microsoft. Makers of software... 

SYDNEY (MarketWatch) — Oil Search Ltd. (OSH.AU) on Tuesday said first half profit more than doubled due to higher oil prices and it moved to address concerns that regime change in Papau New Guinea will affect its US$15 billion gas export joint venture with ExxonMobil Corp. XOM -0.16% . Net profit for the six months to June 30 rose to US$114.5 million from US$52.9 million a year earlier. Oil Search... 

TAIPEI (MarketWatch) — HTC Corp. said Wednesday its unaudited second quarter net profit was NT$17.52 billion, more than doubling from NT$8.64 billion a year earlier. The company, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system by shipments, said in a statement its revenue in the three months ended June 30 more than doubled to NT$124.40 billion... 

TEMPE, Ariz., Aug 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Don Andrus, VirTra Systems’ COO and President (Pink Sheets:VTSI), today announced a record setting quarter for growth and profits. VirTra reported another set of record revenues with over 50% growth as compared to the same quarter in 2009. The second quarter of 2010 was the highest revenue-generating quarter in the history of the company. Three...