Jack Ma is buying back 20% stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo for $7.1 bn, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing.
Google's Schmidt challenged college graduates to take the radical step, at least for their generation - of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones & computers.
Is Google search an intermediary like the phone co– simply connecting people with the information they seek? Or is Google search a publisher, like a newspaper?
Pak restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet.
Your home Wi-Fi network is mostly used for a single purpose - accessing the Internet. ET shows you seven other cool things you can do if you have a Wi-Fi router and broadband.
Pakistani authorities today blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to publicise a contest for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook.
Topping a very busy week after the launch of a flotation at the US stock exchange, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg upgraded his relationship status.
The booming e-commerce space in India is likely to be the game changer for job market as online retailers have bullish hiring plans this financial year.
Google said that Chinese regulators approved its $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility, clearing the path for the firm to complete the acquisition early next week.
Twitter will honor requests from users who do not want their online behavior tracked, the company said, in contrast with Web companies such Google and Facebook.
Investors who managed to buy Facebook Inc shares ahead of the No.1 social network's initial public offering might want to think twice before "flipping" them.
The duel is likely to intensify now that the IPO has provided Facebook Inc's social network with the means to pay for efforts to battle Google Inc's dominant search engine.
'Knowledge Graph' can locate even more relevant information for you than ever before, on the right-hand side of the traditional results. The search engine pulls the facts, figures and images from across the web, said Google.
Facebook will go public hacker style with an all-night software bending bash to culminate with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg remotely ringing the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday, reports said.
Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use.
Facebook creates jobs among app developers, and spending from employees at both app developers and their suppliers leads to more jobs, with so-called "multiplier" effect.
Even after the tepid numbers reported by IT companies for March quarter, Nasscom has maintained an industry growth target of 11-14 per cent in revenues for FY13.
Trade body claims that software makers lost nearly $3 bn or about Rs 16,150 cr in 2011 because Indians prefer illegally copying software rather than pay for it.
"India has essentially has manufacturing envy, and...So they're saying, you know, 'We want to be China. We want to produce all our IT'," said Atkinson.
There's an image associated with Linux that can be frightening. But over the past 20 years, some massive steps have been taken to make the OS more accessible.
The South-based private sector lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank today entered into an agreement with software exporter TCS for managing its back office operations and document management systems.
Cisco raised the specter of a sharp slowdown in technology spending late Wednesday, rattling investors already fretting about the economy's fragile condition.
Facebook says the number of people logging in is continuing to grow more quickly than the number of ads delivered, which is in part because more people are using Facebook on mobile devices.
The US Federal Trade Commission has reached out to Google Inc and Twitter in an investigation into Facebook Inc's $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing service Instagram.
Microsoft on Thursday said that it is weaving insights from user's Facebook friends into Bing results as part of the biggest revamp of the search engine since its launch three years ago.
Web security company Blue Coat Systems announced that its K9 web protection browser for Android will be available for free on Google Play from Wednesday.
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Myspace, the once-mighty social network ultimately toppled by Facebook, settled a privacy investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to submit to privacy audits over the next 20 years.
Yahoo! said Tuesday it would create a special committee with the help of an outside lawyer to review the controversy over chief executive Scott Thompson's misstated academic credentials.
Micro blogging site Twitter is expected to last longer and become more valuable than social networking giant Facebook, one of the UK's leading ad men has claimed.
ICRA Techno Analytics is picking up a majority stake in California-based business consulting and software technology services firm BPA Technologies, Inc.
Nestle has launched an app it says addresses a growing problem among young social media users - giving them a break from the stress of posting updates by doing it for them.
Asserting that cyberattacks against the US do not come only from China, the US and Chinese defense ministers said they have agreed to work together on cybersecurity issues.
CS6 product upgrades cost significantly less than the full versions, but starting Friday, there will be a very different purchasing option, Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription.
Internet radio is shaping up as competition for digital audio players by providing free online music streaming from websites such as Pandora and Spotify.
Competition watchdog CCI has asked its investigation arm to probe the alleged discriminatory practices by global search engine Google relating to its AdWords.
Internet revolution has bypassed rural India with less than half a per cent of families having the facility at home as against 6% in cities, reveals a govt survey.
The organization in charge of expanding the number of Internet address suffixes - the ".com" part of domain names - says it's favoring "quality, not speed."
The servers from where the portal delivers slides to users across the world are named after actresses Aishwarya Rai, Celina Jaitley, Bipasha Basu & Dia Mirza.