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In a landmark IT court case that began on April 16, a federal judge ruled May 31 that Java application programming interfaces used by Google in building the Android mobile device operating system are not protected by copyright.

Earthlink founder and Southern California entrepreneur Sky Dayton is leading an angel investment in a new startup out of Stanford, which is developing a service which allows developers to track changes and extract information out of web pages.

Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison said Wednesday the business software giant will release an extensive collection of tools based on the Internet "cloud" in about a week, as the 35-year-old technology giant strives to maintain its edge.

Today's convergence of privacy-invading technologies and Washington 's appetite for surveillance could send civil liberties packing if we're not careful.

Care Zone Inc., a startup co-founded by ex-Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz to help people care for family members or others with conditions like autism, dementia or Parkinsons, has raised $13 million in a Series A round of venture financing.

Google was vindicated over claims of patent infringment today, but let's take a closer look at some of the winners and losers in this case so far.

On this day in 1994 -- and "write once, run anywhere" may actually come to fruition before the 20th anniversary of Java's launch, but in the form of HTML5 + JavaScript, rather than Java... "Sun Microsystems Inc.

In 1999, Scott McNealy, the former head of Sun MicroSystems, reportedly declared, "You have zero privacy anyway.Get over it." He unintentionally let the proverbial cat out of the bag of the digital age.

Facebook suffered a crushing embarrassment Monday morning as the company's stock fell far below the IPO price of $38. While it's hardly the first company to see huge share losses, it is easily one of the biggest and most watched.

The ubiquity of digital gadgets and sensors, the pervasiveness of networks and the benefits of sharing very personal information through social media have led some to argue that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept.

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As trading opened Friday morning at the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York, a curious scene was taking place thousands of miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has closed $525 million for its fifteenth early stage fund to invest in technology, clean tech and life sciences companies.

Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile, continued to defend the Internet giant's argument that Android engineers had no knowledge of Sun Microsystems patents in the Oracle v. Google trial here this morning.

Oracle and Google have each tried to jettison potentially damaging testimony in their intellectual-property dispute over Android, as a jury deliberates over Oracle's copyright allegations and prepares to move on to the patents part of the case.

The knowledge of a handful of programming languages could come to be a lifesaver to many a programmer, especially since most languages that were popular 10 years ago are not as viable as they are now.

Open-source Java: Part One Open source Java has a long and torrid history, rife with corporate rivalry, very public fallings-out, and ideological misgivings.

Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the Android mobile OS, saying it has "no legal and factual predicate." Schwartz provided some of the strongest testimony for Google in the case so far.