Technology

A group of dozens of state attorneys general have raised concerns with Google over the Internet giant's new privacy policy, marking the latest public flare-up over the planned changes.

Hewlett-Packard said it earned 92 cents an adjusted share on revenue of $30 billion in the first quarter, while Wall Street was expecting the company to earn 87 cents on sales of $30.67 billion.

Google's display-advertising business is growing faster than anticipated and is on track to surpass that of Facebook next year, according to research published Wednesday.

Google CEO Larry Page is reportedly ready to launch an experimental pilot pay-TV program to rival Time Warner Cable.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.

Netflix says its service is now available on PlayStation Vita, the first Sony handheld entertainment system to feature Netflix.

Microsoft said it has filed a competition law complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility in regard to Motorola's handling of standards-essential patents.

After having its deal with AT&T squashed by regulators late last year, T-Mobile USA is asking federal officials to block Verizon's transaction of wireless spectrum from cable companies. 

Rogers Communications , Canada's largest wireless telecommunication company, reported a stronger than expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, driven by growth in its cable and media segments, even as its core wireless business lagged.

Intuit's fiscal second-quarter profit climbed 62% as the tax-software maker's shift to online services generated better-than-expected revenue for its tax business and strong sales in its payment products for businesses.

AT&T's failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA cost the telecommunications giant $4 billion in assets and cash. It also cost Chief Executive Randall Stephenson.

Dell posted fourth-quarter results that beat expectations on revenue, but slightly missed on earnings per share.

Comcast is launching a new streaming service this week that will directly compete with Netflix.

“We do not go into or interfere with user’s Gmail accounts, except in extreme cases, such as in response to court orders,” Google told Tech Crunch.

Google blamed outdated technology within Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser for forcing the search giant to leverage a workaround to bypass certain security settings. 

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group has offered to take its Hong Kong-listed unit Alibaba.com private at a cost of around HK$19.6 billion ($2.5 billion), a move it said was not related to a possible deal with Yahoo Inc on buying back Yahoo's stake in the Chinese Internet giant.

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc that it take up the question of whether chip designer Rambus Inc illegally sued for infringement.

Barnes & Noble posted a lower holiday-quarter profit and cut its Nook e-reader to $169 from $199 to stay competitive.

The London Stock Exchange Group will provide real-time market data to Google, bolstering the search-engine's Google Finance offering.

Alibaba.com, which could soon be taken private by its founder Jack Ma, posted a first profit decline in more than two years as a weak global economy hit the number of paying members for its services.

PayPal, the online payments firm owned by ebay Inc, plans to create 1,000 new jobs in Ireland, providing a significant boost for the Irish government's efforts to lift the economy, broadcaster RTE News reported Tuesday.

Apple Inc has signed with China Telecom to sell its iPhone in China from next month as it looks to boost its flagging share of the world's biggest mobile phone market.

When Dell and Hewlett-Packard report quarterly results this week, they're likely to portray a computer market that's battered but recovering as the two rivals battle for supremacy in higher-margin businesses.

Visa, the U.S. credit card company, is set to launch a cross-border mobile money transfer service in Kenya this year, the Daily Nation newspaper reported.

Microsoft has added privately-held Virtual Instruments CEO John Thompson to its board of high-profile directors.

Finnish handset maker Nokia said it is pleased with Monday's ruling from the U.K. High Court that a patent held by IPCom GmbH & Co. is invalid.

Groupon has bought two-year old startup Hyperpublic for an undisclosed amount, snagging the location-based technology company as the daily deals market continues to expand.

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics revealed plans on Monday to spin off its liquid-crystal display business as the world’s largest supplier of LCDs adopts to the evolving display industry.

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group is set to sign on Monday a $3 billion loan it plans to use to take private its Hong Kong-listed unit, Alibaba.com, Thomson Reuters publication Basis Point reported.

In a reversal of today’s content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents.

A former SanDisk Corp executive is expected to plead guilty later Friday of passing confidential tips to an independent research analyst in the U.S. government's ongoing crackdown on insider trading, according to sources close to the case.

China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to begin monetising its mobile search traffic and social media platforms this year in an effort to boost growth outside its traditional PC domain, Baidu's chief executive said on Friday.

Vitezslav, a 31-year-old Czech, is one of many people in the European Union's emerging east whose opposition to a new anti-pirating pact culminated this month in huge protests across the bloc that may now torpedo the treaty.

No, Facebook is not advertising yet on mobile devices. Yes, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating on what it will mean when it does.

“I don’t really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, raising the question of whether or not the world’s most valuable company even views Microsoft as a rival anymore.

Apple Inc, Google Inc and their vendors must do more to protect children using iPhones and other mobile devices to read or play games, U.S. trade regulators said, and warned they may punish software makers that secretly collect data on kids.

Apple Inc's share of China's smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011 amid competition from Chinese vendors and as some consumers delayed purchases to wait for the iPhone 4S launch.

Google bypassed Apple privacy settings to track browsing habits in Safari, but it said it made the mistake while trying to protect users.

Apple agreed to pay Proview International Holdings 35,000 British pounds for the iPad trademark, according to a cache of documents that include emails and a contract detailing an agreement between the two companies.

Enterprise software makers like Oracle and SAP seem to be quickly coming to the realization that in order to stay ahead in the mushrooming cloud-computing world, they need to loosen the purse strings.

Applied Materials weighed in on Thursday with fiscal-first quarter results that surpassed Wall Street's expectations as the semiconductor equipment maker capitalized on rising demand for mobile chips.

PayPal said the financial information of customers using its in-store payments service is safe a day after a Visa executive suggested it lacks security.

Retailers in more Chinese cities have been told by authorities to take the popular iPad tablet PCs off their shelves this week, media reports said on Thursday, due to a legal battle between a Chinese technology firm and Apple Inc over trademark issues.

Nvidia Corp warned that delays in ramping up new manufacturing technology are affecting sales of its PC graphics chips and that smartphone chip-customer Samsung Electronics has become a rival.

Yahoo Inc's efforts to craft a complex $17 billion asset swap with its Asian partners stumbled over how to value Taobao, the fast-growing online retail business owned by China's Alibaba Group, according to sources familiar with the matter.