SOFTWARE

The prospect has been tossed around tech circles for ages, with various rumors fueling the flame, but the day has finally come -- Google has unveiled its answer to Microsoft dominance.

On Tuesday Microsoft announced details of a $8.5 billion acquisition of online communications company Skype.

Samsung and Acer Inc laptop computers using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as the world's No. 1 Internet search engine tries to entice people to do more on the Web.

Alibaba Group's latest message to Yahoo sounds a lot like the last one: it wants its shares back.

Google unveils a laptop line specifically catered for its Chrome OS. The first two laptops were built by Acer and Samsung.

Samsung and Acer Inc laptop computers using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as the world's No. 1 Internet search engine tries to entice people to do more on the Web.

The popular mobile based game is now headed to web browsers.

Yahoo shares fell as much as 8.6 percent on Wednesday after the controller of Alibaba Group, which includes China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba.com <1688.HK>, took full control of Alipay, a Chinese online payment business.

Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, according to one security firm, marking the latest in a growing trend of compromised personal data.

A gamut of releases at Google I/O conference shows that Google is attempting on one hand to plug existing loopholes in the Android platform, is adding new cloud-services to pre-empt Apple and is outlining its future vision in that it wants Android to become a multi-device OS.

Google I/O is an annual 2-day developer-focused conference, held by Google Inc. at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Global search engine and tech giant Google is ready to go where no other global tech giant would like to enter. It will launch a brand new range of devices which will include dishwashers, light bulbs, thermostats and basically anything which has an electrical connection to it.

Apple has been awarded a patent for a dock connector for landscape or horizontal docking.

On Tuesday Microsoft announced details of a $8.5 billion acquisition of online communications company Skype, but the move, conjuring up past initiatives, are leaving analysts bracing for the worse.

Google I/O developer conference is an annual 2-day developer-focused conference, held by Google at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Security software firm Symantec made a stunning revelation on Tuesday when they said third parties like advertisers had access to sensitive data of millions of Facebook users for years. It said Facebook, which was notified about this issue, has confirmed this leakage.

Jefferies & Co. believes the Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement of Android Ice Cream Sandwich is positive for Android handset original equipment manufacturers like Motorola Mobility, Samsung, and LG.

Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, Symantec Corp said in its official blog.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates jointly announced on Tuesday that the two companies have entered into a deal under which Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Apart from creating value and emerging as a strategically important player in the voice and chat connectivity segment of the exploding web business, Skype also won real big time suitors like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Perhaps the rivals' attempt to outbid each other and own Skype resulted in the Estoni...

Skype's owners, led by private equity firm Silver Lake, are set to earn more than three times their investment, for a total capital gain of more than $5 billion, on the sale of Skype to Microsoft Corp, a source familiar with the situation said.

Skype's owners, led by private equity firm Silver Lake, will make more than three times their investment - a total capital gain of more than $5 billion - on sale of the company to Microsoft Corp, a source familiar with the deal said on Tuesday.