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Facebook touts mobile gains as earnings beat forecast

Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)

Facebook said it was making strong gains in tapping the mobile advertising market as the world's leading social network turned in better-than-expected third qua...

Internet games pioneer Zynga sheds workers

Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)

Struggling social games pioneer Zynga on Tuesday began trimming workers, shuttering studios and shelving older titles to get in financial shape to win in the lo...

Yahoo! chief Mayer lays out mobile strategy

Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)

Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer on Monday revealed a revival strategy that includes making a priority of delivering the Internet firm's popular online services to sm...

Yahoo! profit spikes with Alibaba stake sale

Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)

Yahoo! on Monday reported that its quarterly profit rocketed above $3 billion, fueled by the sale of part of its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Alib...

Iraqi officials venture into world of the Internet

Oct 21, 2012 (AFP)

Smiling shyly, Wassan Saleh admitted to being the face of a vast problem across Iraq's bureaucracy that officials are now trying to remedy: she had never used a...

Google shares suspended after earnings release blunder

Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)

Google shares were suspended for more than two hours Thursday after an erroneous early release of its disappointing third quarter results shocked the market and...

Newsweek ends 80-year print run, goes all-digital

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Newsweek announced Thursday it would end an 80-year run as a print magazine, taking the venerable publication all-digital in another sign of the woes of an indu...

Thailand raises $1.4 bln in 3G mobile auction

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

Thailand raised 41.6 billion baht ($1.4 billion) Tuesday in a long-awaited auction of third-generation (3G) mobile telephone operating licences, regulators said...

EU data bodies tell Google to fix privacy rules or face fine

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

European data protection agencies on Tuesday said Google's new privacy policy does not comply with EU laws and told the US Internet giant to fix it within month...

Microsoft launches new music service

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Microsoft announced Monday it was launching a new music service which offers free streaming for computers and tablets with the Windows operating system to be la...

Masayoshi Son: From pigswill to telecoms tycoon

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Softbank, the bold brainchild of Masayoshi Son, on Monday announced it was buying a controlling stake in one of the world's biggest mobile phone operators. Not ...

Yahoo! raids Google for another key executive

Oct 15, 2012 (AFP)

Yahoo! on Monday announced it had nabbed another key Google executive, naming Henrique de Castro as chief operating officer. De Castro will report directly to c...

Dissonance over US bid to cut Web radio royalties

Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)

A push to lower music royalties paid by Internet radio has created political disharmony in Washington. The row began to heat up in September, when a group of la...

Free message apps 'to cost telecom firms $23 bn this year'

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Global telecom operators are expected to have lost $23 billion in SMS revenues by the end of 2012 as smartphone users shift to free messaging applications, an i...

Third of world's population has Internet: UN

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

More than a third of the world's population is online while mobile phone uptake increased by more than 600 million in 2011 to around six billion, a UN agency sa...

New-look eBay moves toward social shopping

Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)

Online commerce giant eBay unveiled a new look for its website Wednesday inspired by social networks, giving consumers personalized suggestions to help them sif...

Wireless data at top speed

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

Digital cameras and camcorders deliver high resolution film sequences that are several gigabytes in size. These can take several minutes to transfer wirelessly ...

US says will oppose major revisions of global telecom rules

Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)

The United States will oppose any major revision to 24-year-old global telecommunications regulations at an international conference in December, the head of th...

Games play into Facebook's future

Oct 07, 2012 (AFP)

As investors agonize over Facebook's future, the online social network used by a seventh of the world's population isn't forgetting the importance of play. Near...

New device could increase Internet download speeds

Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)

A team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota has invented a unique microscale optical device that could greatly increase the speed of downl...