SOFTWARE

At the launch of Apple?s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11, the company unveiled its upcoming operating system upgrade in addition to other revelations. A beta version of Apple?s iOS 6 was released to developers starting Monday, and more information about the new software has already allegedly begun to leak.

PC gamers have long awaited the release date for ?Diablo 3,? which launched nearly a month ago on May 15. The widely-perceived computer game has been a staple of the PC gaming genre since its inception, and the third installment is said to look even sharper on Apple?s new MacBook Pro featuring Retina display.

Just hours before Apple's yearly pilgrimage for developers kicks off Monday, an intriguing post at Chinese forum WeiPhone made much buzz around the tech world Sunday, claiming to have a full list of links to beta builds of iOS 6 and Safari 6 Developer Preview for OS X Lion.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were: RPC, Digital Domain Media Group, SuperValu, AK Steel Holding and Rogers Communication. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Metropolitan Health Networks, Yelp, Visteon Corp, Halcon Resources and Standard Pacific Corp.

Thousands of software and application engineers have already sold out next week?s developers conference mounted by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company. Here are four key highlights.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, rose sharply Friday trading after a preliminary report by comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) that its advertisements are effective.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, fell nearly 2 percent on Thursday, exactly three weeks after the company took in $16 billion in its initial public offering.

U.S. manufacturing productivity surged 5.4 percent in the first quarter, the most since last year?s third quarter, even as overall productivity eased about 1 percent, the U.S. Department of Labor said.

Is Facebook boring? For 34 percent of users of the social network polled by Reuters and Ipsos, the answer is a resounding, yes.

In September, users of Facebook nearly blew a gasket when rumors spread that the social network would begin charging users to access the website. Before that, it was a virus called Invitation Facebook that if opened would wipe your hard drive clean. Now, a new hoax dubbed the Facebook Privacy Notice was virally passed on social media this week, warning that Facebook's new status as a publically traded company can infringe privacy for users of the social network...unless o...

Sean Parker's latest company is a social video venture called Airtime. The Napster co-creator who was played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network has teamed up with former Napster developer Shawn Fanning to build a Facebook-connected app that allows users to participate in live video chats.

Thanks to their small size and strong exoskeleton, mosquitoes are able to shake off impacts from raindrops that would obliterate a human if they were struck by a similarly sized force.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, rose about 1.3 from their record low Tuesday close on indications Nasdaq may detail a deal to compensate small investors.

Now that the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, has lost 32 percent of its value, technology giants including International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are on a shopping spree. That may chill the IPO pipeline.

Nasdaq has reached out to at least one brokerage that lost money due to Facebook's botched IPO, saying it will make an announcement Wednesday.

In the past 24 hours, Google has acquired two companies to substantially improve its various online services. On Monday, Google bought social start-up Meebo to enhance its social services like Google Chat and its social network Google+, and on Tuesday, Google bought Quickoffice to boost the functionality and compatibility of Google Apps like Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Google Drive, and more.

Will Stone give pearls of wisdom?

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, kept setting new lows after their May 17 IPO. By Tuesday, they'd shed 32 percent of their value.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, said it had agreed to acquire private Collective Intellect to bolster its Cloud capabilities for software-as-a-service functions.

After conquering Harvard in 2004, Facebook spread to other colleges and eventually opened itself to high schoolers and college grads, but now, Facebook is reportedly ready to expand again. The crew in Menlo Park, Calif., is currently exploring ways to open Facebook access to children aged 13 and under.

Facebook is working to extend its reach by lifting age restrictions from the site and developing a social network for children that will be monitored by their parents, the Wall Street Journal reported.