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Facebook now valued at $50-billion
Facebook announced on Friday that it had raised $1.5 billion from investors in a private share offering that valued the booming social network at…
HP announces sweeping changes, appoints five new board members
Months after CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign, Hewlett-Packard announced a major shake up of its board Thursday, the latest in a series…
Mobile payment systems making inroads into the US market
In a sure sign of things to come, US coffee chain Starbucks on Wednesday began allowing customers in its US stores to keep their…
Facebook announces delay in plans to share user contact info
After being dogged by complaints about its privacy protection during 2010, Facebook has finally taken heed of the issues that users have with its…
The BBM that started the Mandela Twitter ‘death’ hoax [pic]
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Chinese authorities to step up fight against online piracy
Intellectual property rights are widely flouted in China, home to the biggest counterfeit and piracy market in the world. But days before President Hu…
Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple
For the second time in two years, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced on Monday that he is taking a new leave of absence…
107-trillion emails sent in 2010, 89 percent spam
Internet users sent a total of 107-trillion emails last year, most of them spam, according to a Web monitoring service. The number of emails…
Apple, News Corp. delay launch of iPad magazine
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and Apple have delayed next week’s launch of The Daily, the media tycoon’s digital newspaper for the iPad, a News…
Social media spawning the rise of ‘hate mobs’ across Asia
A teenager involved in a car crash that killed nine people in Thailand deserves “no happiness forever”, according to just one of more than…
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