Google Inc founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell about 10 million of the company's shares over the next five years, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website after a security researcher warned of a programing flaw that left the login credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers.

Imperva, the leading data security compny released on Thursday the top ten passwords that are easy to be hacked.

Facebook Inc. has confirmed on Thursday it will build a 147,000-square-foot data center in Prineville, Oregon.

Google Inc. announced on Thursday its fourth-quarter net income of $1.97 billion, or $6.13 a share, compared to $382 million, or $1.21 a share in the same period last year.

YouTube, Google Inc's video website, said it will begin testing an online movie rental service with independent films from the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.

Congress should enact a law laying the groundwork for protecting consumers who use the Internet "cloud" to store data before states come in with an unwieldy patchwork of conflicting legislation, said Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith on Wednesday.

China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, sued its U.S.-based domain name service provider Register.com Inc on Wednesday after a cyber attack interrupted its web services last week.

In the autumn of 1998, computer science engineer Li Yanhong developed Rankdex, an experimental search engine that ranked websites according to their relevance to each other.

China's top search engine, Baidu Inc (BIDU.O), filed a lawsuit against its U.S.-based domain name service provider on Wednesday after a cyber attack interrupted its web services last week.

Twitter growth reached dizzying heights in 2009, with celebrities Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping surge new sign-ups, but the micro-blogging site is experiencing a significant decline in the growth of new users.

The European Commission has set a provisional deadline of Feb. 19 to decide whether to clear a bid by Microsoft to acquire control of Yahoo Inc's search engine business.

Baidu Inc. said on Monday its chief technology officer Yinan Li has resigned for personal reasons.

The Chinese government will offer greater cash rewards to people reporting online smut after handing out 224,000 yuan ($32,810) as of late last week, state media said on Monday.

China's largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, in which Yahoo Inc owns a 40 percent stake, has called the search giant's comments on Google "reckless."

Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. said on late Thursday they support "minimal" internet regulation and "reasonable" network management over the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) proposed net neutrality rules.

Google Inc jolted investors and China this week by threatening to quit the Communist Party-run nation over censorship and hacking, and both sides are tight-lipped about what they expect to happen next.

China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of last year, an official report showed on Friday, days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market.

A senior Chinese official told companies to support the government's Internet controls on Thursday, suggesting scant room for compromise with Google after the company threatened to quit China over censorship and hacking.