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Article | 27/07/2011 Facebook edges Google as most-typed URL domain
Faceboook.com is the domain to have (count the 'o's) if phishing scams are your game. That's because it's the most popular mistyped entry into a brows...
Article | 27/07/2011 Senators push for high-skill immigration reform
A group of U.S. senators pledged Tuesday to open up the country's borders to high-skill immigrants, with lawmakers arguing that the U.S. is turning aw...
Article | 23/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings show sector strength
A raft of computer and software vendor financial results this week, including reports from IBM, Intel, Apple and Microsoft, revealed some record quart...
Article | 20/07/2011 Yahoo revenue drops as display ad business slows
Yahoo's total revenue took a steep dive in the second quarter as it struggled in display advertising, a core market where it has historically been a l...
Article | 20/07/2011 NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers
His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basket...
Article | 19/07/2011 User satisfaction study: Facebook vulnerable to Google+
User satisfaction with Facebook is low enough that the social networking site risks losing significant market share to Google+, according to a new stu...
Article | 17/07/2011 TrackMeNot add-on keeps search engine profilers confused
The free TrackMeNot Firefox add-on takes a unique and creative approach to protecting your privacy from search engines that can create profiles of yo...
Article | 16/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Google stirs market optimism
Google's surprisingly strong earnings helped spark renewed confidence in the tech sector in advance of a raft of vendor earnings announcements next we...
Article | 14/07/2011 Emissions from Microsoft, Dell data centers worry residents
Some residents of Quincy, Washington, home of massive data centers operated by Microsoft, Yahoo and others, are growing concerned about pollution from...
Article | 29/06/2011 Yahoo forms Hortonworks, a new Hadoop company
Yahoo and Benchmark Capital have founded a company tasked with advancing the open source Hadoop software framework for applications that manage massiv...
Article | 24/06/2011 Yahoo chairman backs CEO Bartz, but investor wants her out
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was backed by the company's chairman at the start of the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, but got ripped by an ...
Article | 17/06/2011 Yahoo app search gets through iOS, Android clutter
Yahoo is lumbering into the app search game, years behind smaller, nimbler competitors.
Article | 16/06/2011 China's Alibaba restructures online retailer Taobao
Taobao, China's largest online retailer, has split into three separate companies to better address its target markets, parent company Alibaba Group sa...
Article | 16/06/2011 Yahoo releases search tools for iPhone, Android apps
Yahoo wants to help people find mobile applications and information about them.
Article | 11/06/2011 IPv6 Day only a beginning, researchers say
World IPv6 Day boosted the amount of native IPv6 traffic on the Internet, but it mostly increased the use of transitional protocols that won't help to...