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Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the country.

Among the biggest fights Google is engaging, are the following three: In the last few days, it appears that Google's weapon of choice to fight these three battles may be Nvidia Apple and the iPhone/iPad: At the annual Google i/o developer conference last week, the Android development leadership was on stage and answered questions from the very ... (more)

Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, NEW YORK - Tesla Motors doesn't want to sell its cars the way every other car company does, and that's making a lot of traditional automobile dealers mad.

Billionaire Warren Buffett is spending his day listening to business pitches from a select group of kids, but the ideas aren't likely to generate new acquisitions for Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.

SHE was sweet on Nutella for years, but the spread super-fan Sara Rosso has been ordered to quit talking about her favourite flavour online.

It's official: After several days of rumors, Yahoo [NASDAQ: YHOO] has all but confirmed that it will be purchasing the blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

Jotun has introduced its new Reveal Edge powder coatings range specially formulated to bring distinct visual character, colour and personality into household products.

The artist's sister said in social network posts that he died at home in Austin, Texas, on May 7, although the news took time to filter through to his friends and collaborators in the music world.

The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich.

Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence across the city that lead to Saturday night's attack and murder of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village.

On Friday, May 17, a shot was heard around the world of journalism when the financially troubled Village Voice dismissed three of its long time columnists.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will write new rules to tackle corporate tax dodgers if he wins the next election, even if there is no international consensus for action.

It was supposed to be the IPO of the decade: a soaring success that would finally shake Silicon Valley out of its doldrums and pave the streets with gold.

Illinois now has tougher penalties for those who use social media to organize violent "flash mobs" like those that have occurred on Chicago's Michigan Avenue and in other tourist areas.

Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference.

Two Mexican firms embroiled in a contractual dispute with Yahoo Inc will appeal a court ruling that overturned an earlier $2.75 billion judgment in their favor, a director of the companies said on Friday.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., company gave no further details Friday other than that Mayer will be discussing a product.

NewsRight, an organization created to turn unauthorized publishers of newspaper content on the Internet into licensed customers, said it is disbanding and transferring its operations to Moreover Technologies, which monitors how Moreover's clients are portrayed in the media.