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Twitter tumbles after warning on overvaluation

Dec 27, 2013 (AFP)

Twitter shares tumbled Friday after a brokerage analyst warned the popular messaging network was overvalued following a meteoric rise since its initial public o...

Amazon to compensate customers for late gifts

Dec 26, 2013 (AFP)

Amazon Thursday said it would give $20 gift cards and pay shipping costs for customers affected by problems at UPS and FedEx that delayed some Christmas package...

New approach to vertex connectivity could maximize networks' bandwidth

Dec 26, 2013 (SPX)

Computer scientists are constantly searching for ways to squeeze ever more bandwidth from communications networks. Now a new approach to understanding a basic c...

With selfies, the world turns the camera on itself

Dec 24, 2013 (AFP)

Stuck on a ledge halfway up a 3,000-foot (1,000-meter) cliff in Oman, his climbing rope sliced in two by sharp rocks, Jimmy Chin did what anyone else would have...

Chinese users welcome Apple, China Mobile deal

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese users welcomed a long-awaited tie-up between Apple and China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless operator, but analysts warned Monday that the deal's i...

Apple, China Mobile sign iPhone deal

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

Apple on Sunday unveiled a long-anticipated deal with China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless carrier, to bring the iPhone to customers in a market dominated...

After security breach, US retailer Target offers discount

Dec 21, 2013 (AFP)

US retailer Target is making up for a major IT security breach by offering its customers in the United States on Saturday and Sunday a ten-percent discount on a...

News Corp buys 'social news' agency Storyful

Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)

Rupert Murdoch's publishing group News Corp. said Friday it had acquired the "social news agency" Storyful, which seeks to merge journalism with social media. U...

Outside View: Untapped demand for in-flight mobile services

Dec 20, 2013 (UPI)

The United States exemplifies mobile leadership in many ways: mobile operating systems, LTE networks, smartphones and mobile applications. But these advances ca...

Never forget a face

Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)

Do you have a forgettable face? Many of us go to great lengths to make our faces more memorable, using makeup and hairstyles to give ourselves a more distinctiv...

Zuckerberg sells as Facebook offers new shares

Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will sell a chunk of his stake in the company, cashing in some $2.3 billion, as part of a new share offering by the huge social n...

Breach at Target stores may have hit 40 mn accounts

Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)

US retail giant Target said Thursday some 40 million customers may have had bank card data compromised by hackers who broke into its database as holiday shoppin...

Google Glass eyewear lets winking snap pictures

Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)

Google Glass on Tuesday announced updates to the software in its Internet-linked eyewear to allow users to snap pictures by winking. The new feature, which prom...

Microsoft expects to name new chief early in 2014

Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)

Microsoft on Tuesday said the hunt for a new chief executive to lead the aging technology titan in the mobile Internet age should be over by early 2014. "We ide...

Tech trends set stage for mobile, playful 2014

Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)

Twitter's triumphant market debut, the rise of smart fashion and a new generation of game consoles highlighted the tech world this year, portending more mobile ...

Apple monitors contractor after worker, 15, dies in China

Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)

Apple sent inspectors to one of its contractor factories in China after the death of an underage worker, it said Friday, vowing to ensure "high standards" were ...

Instagram unveils private video, photo messaging

Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)

Instagram on Thursday unveiled a new service allowing its 150 million members to send private photo and video messages to friends and loved ones in an increasin...

YouTube forecast to rake in $5.6 billion from ads

Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)

Industry tracker eMarketer forecasts that YouTube will rake in about $5.6 billion from ads this year, pocketing nearly two billion of those dollars as profit. T...

Music lovers seek to pump up digital audio quality

Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)

When he sees people listening to music on portable digital devices, David Chesky cringes. "You can have an $8 million Stradivarius, and it sounds like you bough...

Google hard at work bringing voice recognition to the mainstream

Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)

The next generation of computing devices may dispense with display screens and rely strictly on voice recognition, an engineer at U.S. search giant Google says....