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• Yahoo buys blogging forum Tumblr for US$1.1B
  The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo's latest comeback attempt. It marks Yahoo's ...
• A year after IPO, Facebook stock still stagnant
  Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than ...
• Cisco Q3 net income grows 14%
  Cisco earned US$2.5 billion, or 46 cents per share, in its fiscal third quarter, which ended April 27. That's up from $2.2 billion, or 40 cents ...
• LinkedIn attracting more friends on Wall Street than...
  LinkedIn Corp. promotes its service as a stepping stone to a more enriching career. As it turns out, the professional networking company's ...
• Law enforcement agencies grappling with spike in...
  Old-school robberies by masked criminals are being eclipsed by stealth multimillion dollar cybercrime operations which are catching companies and ...
• Dell takeover bid faces fresh challenge from investors
  Southeastern Asset Management and Icahn said in a letter sent Thursday to the Dell Inc. board that they want to let shareholders keep their stock ...
• Huawei founder tries to dispel security risk image
  Until Thursday. During a visit to the company's New Zealand operations, Ren sat down with four local journalists at a Wellington hotel. The rules ...
• Adobe shifts to subscription model for software package
  Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday that it will not release new versions of its Creative Suite software package. Instead, the maker of Photoshop, ...
• Mobile advertisements boost Facebook's Q1 earnings
  It has since eased those worries. On Wednesday the world's biggest social networking company said nearly a third of its advertising revenue came ...
• Alcatel-Lucent losses mount
  The Paris-based supplier to operators such as AT&T, Verizon and Orange says it lost 353 million euros (US$461.72 million) in the ...
• Ericsson's Q1 earnings plunge on restructuring charges
  The Stockholm-headquartered company says sales over the three months ticked up two per cent year-on-year to 52 billion kronor, with North America ...
• Apple releases poor quarterly outlook; to dole out...
  Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it will expand its share buyback program to US$60 billion, the largest buyback authorization in history. It is also ...
• Netflix adds 2M subscribers in Q1, gets boost from...
  The skepticism dissipated Monday with the release of Netflix's financial results for the opening three months of the year. The first-quarter ...
• Former Google CEO 'brainstorms the future' in new book
  Until now, though, there hasn't been a book providing an unfiltered look from inside Google's brain trust. Google Executive Chairman Eric ...
• Google posts solid Q1 as company addresses...
  The first-quarter numbers released Thursday show that a recent decline in Google's average ad prices is easing. That's an indication that ...
• Twitter launches application to let users discover...
  Twitter said in a blog post that an app will be available for download from Apple's online store Thursday. A Web version also rolled out ...
• LinkedIn looks at more mobile traffic, advertising
  The changes being unveiled Thursday mark LinkedIn Corp.'s first major overhaul of its mobile app in 20 months. Since then, more than 80 million ...
• Yahoo's Q1 results show weak ad sales
  The results released Tuesday seemed to dim some of the aura surrounding Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who was lured away from a top job at Google Inc. ...
• PC sales plunge in Q1: IDC
  Global shipments of PCs fell 14 per cent in the first three months this year, IDC said. That's the sharpest plunge since the firm started ...
• Eurozone unemployment hits record 12%
  Official figures Tuesday showed that unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has struck 12 per cent for the first ...
• Virtual reality, goggles and all, attempts comeback...
  The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a ...
• Cyprus bailout approved, bankruptcy averted
  Negotiations into early Monday ended with approval of the deal by the 17-nation eurozone's finance ministers. The European Central Bank had ...
• Oracle shares fall after missing Q3 expectations
  "While our overall business remains healthy and we saw excellent pipeline growth we're not pleased with our revenue growth this quarter," said ...
• Cyprus feared to be on brink of bankruptcy
  Tuesday's decisive rejection of the plan to take a slice of all deposits above 20,000 euros has left the country's bailout in question and fueled ...
• Facebook activity can reveal wealth of private info:...
  It could out you as gay. It might reveal how you vote. It might even suggest that you're an unmarried introvert with a high IQ and a weakness for ...
• Dow Jones surges to all-time high
  The Dow Jones industrial average surged passed its all-time high and kept going on Tuesday. It jumped up from the opening bell, climbed as much ...
• Scooters, trash bins equipped with wireless...
  Welcome to the next phase of the wireless revolution. The first wave of wireless was all about getting people to talk to each other on ...
• Firefox phones coming this summer
  The Mountain View, Calif.-based foundation said Sunday that phones running Firefox OS will appear this summer, starting in Brazil, Colombia, ...
• HP's slide eases in Q1
  The fiscal first-quarter numbers announced Thursday topped what the slumping personal computer maker's own management and stock market analysts ...
• Office Depot agrees to buy OfficeMax in US$1.2B deal
  Boca Raton, Fla.-based Office Depot Inc. and Naperville, Ill.-based OfficeMax said holders of OfficeMax shares will receive 2.69 shares of Office ...