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Apple has become the most valuable company in the world. Here's five reasons why.

The Angry Birds will soon fly to your home and become your kids' pal. Rovio, the developer of the smash hit casual game Angry Birds, has signed a new licensing deal with SwaddleDesigns, which specializes in the manufacturing of baby products. This move comes after Rovio's foray into toys paid off.

Apple has become the most valuable company in the U.S., passing Exxon Mobil. Here's five reasons why.

These two iconic corporations are going in decidedly different directions.

Wednesday morning, Amazon has launched Kindle Cloud Reader to circumvent Apple's new in-app subscription rules. Kindle Cloud Reader is an HTML5-based reading app, which allows users to read their Kindle e-books from Chrome and Safari, without requiring any download or installation.

Have you thought about wrapping your newborn up with an Angry Birds blanket? Now that is about to come true. Rovio, the developer of the smash hit casual game Angry Birds, has signed a new licensing deal with SwaddleDesigns, which specializes in the manufacturing of baby products. This move comes after Rovio's foray into toys paid off.

Online retail giant Amazon.com has unveiled Kindle Cloud Reader, which is its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers to read Kindle books instantly using only their Web browser - online or offline.

It seems everything going Apple's way. A day after the consumer technology giant briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the world's largest public company by market capitalization, it won a legal battle against Samsung in Europe.

Apple Inc on Tuesday surpassed Exxon Mobile Corp, if only briefly, to become the most valuable company in the United States. With a market cap of almost $342 billion, Apple's sales have been increasing 80 percent a year, coupled with even faster profit.

Why don't humans give up hopes on spotting intelligent extra-terrestrial life? Because we haven't got any categorical evidence which suggests that alien life is non-existent and until proven otherwise extra-terrestrials could exist. Though probability of intelligent alien life is an intensely debated topic, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) is in the lookout for an ali...

Nokia has decided to part ways with Symbian in the U.S. A move that should shock very few.

Cisco Systems' financial results will indicate if Internet traffic is easing

Ironically, Exxon still generates about four times the annual revenue that Apple does.

Tech stocks recovered slightly from Monday's beating

After 21 years working with Microsoft and spearheading development for Windows Phone, Charlie Kindel has suddenly resigned, leaving Microsoft to start a new company on his own.

Jefferies believes reports that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) will launch a QNX phone in first quarter of calendar 2012 are correct. However, the brokerage also believes it will be a single-core, non-native email, non-push, non-data compressed BlackBerry.

The riots, currently, have continued for the third consecutive day and have spread to other parts of UK.

House Leaders announced on Monday that they are shutting down the House page program, a nearly 200-year-old institution which allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about the Congress

A growing number of companies are mining Facebook for new employees, eschewing both conventional means like job postings and competitors like LinkedIn, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Since the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the market share of Windows-powered smartphones has fallen 38 percent, something unusual to happen following the debut of a new product.

Halo 4 will arrive on Xbox 360 in the fourth quarter of 2012.