SOFTWARE

British financial software provider Misys Plc reported a 23 percent rise in pretax profit for the first half largely from net finance income, reflecting significant lower debt compared with last year.

Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social media tools for staying connected cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released on Monday found.

Startup website Foursquare has enough money to last it through to the end of the year and is in no rush for a sale or public offering, despite new competition from Facebook, co-founder Dennis Crowley said.

Twitter is set to triple its advertising revenue this year and could generate $250 million in ad revenue in 2012, according to an industry research firm's projection.

Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social media tools for staying connected cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released on Monday found.

Mozilla, Microsoft are two major browser providers with 'Do Not Track' features. Independent developers and small companies also have possible anti-data mining solutions.

Software and biotech startups once again got the msot money from U.S. venture capital funds in 2010.

Mozilla proposes to use a “Do Not Track” HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox, which when enabled would prevent data mining companies from getting information through web cookies.

Facebook, recently valued at $50 billion, sees opportunities to extend its advertising business beyond the gaming sector, a company executive said on Monday.

Sean Parker, who was the former president of social network giant Facebook, said the recent movie The Social Network was great, but called it as a complete work of fiction.

T-Mobile has developed a new service that helps drivers restrict themselves from attending to calls and sending texts messages when they are driving, ANI has reported.

App Store touches 10 billion downloads even as Apple iPhone 5 changes base while iPad 2 mass production is set to start.

Research In Motion aims to keep its dominance of the corporate smartphone market by enabling the BlackBerry to segregate a user's personal data from work-related emails and other applications sponsored by employers.

Apple announced Saturday that over 10 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store.

Qwiki, the information experience platform whose first product will be a web-based reference tool with about 3 million terms, is moving to the next level with funding from some high profile investors.

Facebook has raised $1.5 billion from investors, under terms which the world's No. 1 online social network says gives it a value of about $50 billion.

Twitter accounts have been hijacked to send out links directing to a fake anti-virus website without the account user's permission.

Duke research suggests offshoring is more a result of the shortage of adequately skilled domestic employees, rather than the economic motive to cut costs.

The main challenge that is going to grip Page is going to be the confrontation with Facebook, the world’s largest networking site which is closing in on 1 billion users. And another competitor would be Apple in terms of mobile advertising. Recently Facebook was in the new about the challenge it posses over Google in terms of advertising.

Google Inc CEO Eric Schmidt will step aside and make way for co-founder Larry Page to take the reins, in a surprise announcement. The following is Schmidt's letter to employees upon stepping down

Facebook's global reach has been the envy of many companies, as about 70 percent of its 500 million users are from outside US and now Facebook has launched an app for feature phones to further bolster its march.