Yahoo is planning to shut several of its web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com and Yahoo Picks, as part of its restructuring efforts to save costs and exit unprofitable ventures.
The social media giant adds facial recognition technology to its photo sharing services.
The company gets $200 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to raise its total valuation to $3.7 billion
Nokia has filed fresh patent infringement claims against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, alleging that Apple infringed its patents in many of its products sold in these countries, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Charles Manson, who is serving a life sentence for his conspiracy role in the killing of seven people in the Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, 1969, has been handed down an extra 30 days on his life term after being found in possession of a contraband cellphone within jail premises.
Oracle Corp., one of the world's biggest enterprise software makers, is expected to report better-than-expected numbers, when it reports second quarter results today after the market closes.
Year-long survey conducted by Glassdoors.com puts social networking giant Facebook at the top of preferred employers' list
European tech start-ups are eyeing an early move to the U.S. West Coast, lured by the deeper pockets and stronger track record of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
The company introduces speech recognition to Android 2.2 phones, which can recognize the user's phone and understand their specific dialect.
A class action suit against AT&T for back wages and damages, filed on behalf of some of its information technology workers, has picked up more plaintiffs.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes the youngest member of the California Hall of Fame on Tuesday when the state museum in Sacramento also honors singer Barbra Streisand, Titanic filmmaker James Cameron and others.
Benchmark Capital raised its profit estimates and price target on Google Inc., citing the company's strong operating momentum in search business.
Investigators into the violent and deadly natural gas line explosion in San Bruno, California on Sept. 9, 2010, have discovered that certain pipe segments were welded only from the outside, not from both inside and outside the pipe, the National Transportation Safety Board said today.
Viacom has attracted some high-profile support in its legal battle with YouTube, including software giant Microsoft and artists such as Garth Brooks and Sting.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Genoptix, Sanderson Farms, Infinera, Amgen, Ness Technologies, MannKind, Silicom, Comcast, NVIDIA, and Orexigen Therapeutics.
An Amtrak train hit and killed at least three people on an overpass in the city of Commerce on Monday night, according to authorities.
After a San Francisco Bay Area resident became the first in the United States to receive the delivery of Nissan Leaf, Nissan Motors on Tuesday carried out its first Leaf delivery in the South Carolina region.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Home Inns & Hotels Management, Landec, Gulfport Energy, XOMA, Harmonic, Charter Communications, Limelight Networks, Sequenom, and Novellus Systems.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Genoptix, Infinera, Amgen, Powerwave Technologies, Pixelworks, SmartHeat, Endwave, SuperMedia, Cytokinetics, and YRC Worldwide.
After a 33-year journey, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the other edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher Scientific said it agreed to acquire chromatography systems maker Dionex Corp. for about $2.1 billion to expand in Asia-Pacific regions such as China.
Microsoft won a deal with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under which it will move 120,000 of its employees to messaging, conferencing and document sharing over the cloud.
