SOFTWARE

Infosys, one of India's leading software services exporters, is facing a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) probe following an accusation that the company misused B1 visas.

The new investor bywords are “big data.” Initial public offerings last week for both Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) and Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) were smash hits because of it. Big companies like IBM (NYSE: IBM) may be the biggest beneficiaries.

Home entertainment company Netflix Inc. (NAS: NFLX) is expected to post a loss for the first time in the last seven years, according to Wall Street analysts. Netflix Q1 results will be out Monday, and according to analysts, the entertainment trendsetter will lose 27 cents per share.

You may have seen your friends posting on Twitter and Facebook recently that they registered for Wander. But what is it?

Shares of security software specialist Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) jumped as much as 31 percent in the first few minutes of trading after their initial public offering.

With Evernote reportedly raising funding a valuation of $1 billion, could it be the next mobile app success story?

Photos of the Colombian escort caught up in a scandal that has caused three Secret Service agents to lose their jobs hit the Web Thursday. According to the New York Daily News, the woman, a 24-year-old single mother is known as Dania.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, reported results Thursday that beat analyst estimates for both earnings and revenue.

In the latest update to the website, YouTube is rolling out new audio editing tools that will make it easier for uploaders to layer several audio tracks on top of one another.

Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), which developed software to permit enterprise analysis of so-called “Big Data,” saw its shares skyrocket nearly 90 percent in its initial public offering.

Michael Baker, a 20-year-old coal miner of Mayking, Ky, was arrested on Monday after he illegally siphoned gas from the tank of a parked police cruiser -- and then posted a photo of the act on Facebook

Facebook’s $1 billion deal to acquire Instagram may have resulted in pushing the initial public offering price for the No. 1 social media network even higher.

Draw Something wouldn't be a proper Zynga property if it didn't optimize the viral nature of the game through social network sharing features. Thanks to a recent update, Draw Something has added that sharing feature in addition to chat and photo-capturing capabilities.

Model Bar Refaeli and other celebrities have been taking to their Twitter accounts to vent about uncomfortable encounters with TSA security staff at airports.

A woman from Berkshire, England named Julie Zalinski retold the story of the death of her boyfriend, Adrian Rowland last November, as she watched him commit suicide during a Skype chat from over 7,000 miles away during an inquest at Oxford County Hall. According to the Oxford Mail, Zalinski watched as Rowland, 53, slashed his throat, wrists and stomach and bled to death before her eyes on the Internet.

It seems the jailbreakers are back to work once again in an effort to find an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1. French iOS hacker Pod2g took to his Twitter account on Wednesday and announced that he and his team are now in possession of all the required exploits to start working on a new jailbreak.

Facebook acquired Instagram for $1billion, most of which will be paid in stock. The company could be valued at more than $75 billion.

Tashay D. Edwards, who achieved Internet fame on Wednesday for allegedly dishing out a brutal beatdown that was captured on video and posted on WSHH (WorldStarHipHop.com), has been arrested in connection with the assault, which arose over a Twitter beef.

The Flashback Trojan isn't so easy to dismantle, after all. Even though Apple released two software updates and an additional removal tool that was said to eliminate the malware that affected about 600,000 Macs, roughly 140,000 Mac computers are still infected.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, is expected to report slightly lower third-quarter results Thursday, despite the slight uptick in PC sales.

Twitter said on Tuesday that it would structure its patents so they could not be used for offensive litigation purposes without permission from the people who developed them.