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Google cleared in Oracle suit on patents (Update)

Google won a major victory Wednesday as jurors sided with the Internet giant in a high-stakes court battle over patents with business software titan Oracle.

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Facebook falls flat in public debut (Update 3)

(AP) -- In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Facebook is 2nd largest US IPO ever

Facebook's launch on to the Nasdaq on Friday will raise $16.4 billion dollars, making it the second largest initial public offering on US markets ever.

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook buys mobile discovery startup Glancee

Mere weeks from a multi-billion-dollar debut on the stock market, Facebook has ramped up its focus on mobile lifestyles with the purchase of "social discovery" startup Glancee.

Technology / Business

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AOL says to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.0 bn

AOL announced plans to sell more than 800 patents to Microsoft in a $1.056 billion deal giving the struggling Internet pioneer a needed cash injection as it seeks to fend off pressure from shareholders.

Technology / Business

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Cyber-fraud tops $93 billion a year in Latin America

Fraud in online commerce and theft of confidential data, known as phishing, at banks in Latin America together top 93 billion dollars in yearly losses, an IT conference heard Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Anonymous' hackers attack Brazilian websites

The computer hacker group Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district Saturday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Bail rules prevent Kim Dotcom from using Internet

(AP) -- Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom made his fortune and even took his name from the Internet, but now he's barred from logging on.

Technology / Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple to add 3,600 jobs at new $304M Texas campus

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is investing $304 million in a new campus and more than doubling its workforce in the Texas capital, boosted by a $21 million incentive from a state fund designed to attract high-tech companies, Gov. Rick ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

US joining the Wendelstein 7-X fusion project

The USA is investing over 7.5 million dollars in the construction of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald. In the three-year project, starting in 2011, ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 283

New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Satellites: Europe's Arianespace sets 13 launches for 2012

European satellite launch operator Arianespace said on Thursday it had scheduled 13 missions for 2012, the first year in which it would deploy rockets in all three categories of payload.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Semiconductor sales down 28.6 pct in January: SIA

Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oracle fined $200 million for overcharging US govt

Business software and hardware giant Oracle was fined nearly $200 million dollars for overcharging the US government, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Rockets, doughnuts could face ax in US budget cuts

Hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars have been wasted on everything from doughnuts to rockets, auditors told Congress Thursday as budget-minded lawmakers prepared to slash science funding.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7