TECHNOLOGY

Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. For those who don't want to use Instagram anymore, we've found the 5 best alternatives to Instagram that will allow you to edit and share your photos while maintaining your privacy.

China's ZTE Corp, which recently sold Iran's largest telecommunications firm a powerful surveillance system, later agreed to ship to Iran millions of dollars worth of embargoed U.S. computer equipment, documents show.

Diablo 3, the newest title in Blizzard's action-adventure RPG franchise is set to be released in a little over a month. Details surrounding the game have slowly been revealed, but a new video posted by the company on YouTube shines the spotlight on the Barbarian, featuring new gameplay footage of the one man army with tremendous strength and a noble cause.

Japan's Sony Corp flagged a record $6.4 billion annual net loss, double an earlier forecast and a fourth straight year of red ink, as it writes off deferred tax credits, heaping more pressure on its new CEO to turn around the electronics giant.

Research In Motion Ltd likely lost money on sales of its BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablet computers in the fiscal year just ended, an analyst said on Tuesday after studying the company's latest data.

In the wake of announcing Facebook will be acquiring Instagram in a billion-dollar deal, Instagram’s new Android app surged to 5 million downloads little more than 5 days.

Apple is yet to officially announce the release date for the revamped--perhaps re-designed-- Macbook Pro, but multiple reports of stock shortages suggests the launch is fast approaching.

Iran says reports of an Internet shutdown are a hoax from the propaganda wing of the West.

Microsoft's push into the tablet industry will see only limited success, with the U.S. software maker remaining a distant No. 3 behind Apple and Google, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.

Microsoft's push into the tablet industry will see only limited success, with the U.S. software maker remaining a distant No 3 after Apple and Google, research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.

As has been aptly said by one of his Facebook fans: “Little in his last name but a GIANT on the NET.”It’s been almost five days now, yet the craze over the “Ridiculously Photogenic Guy” doesn’t seem like it is going to fizzle out anytime soon. In fact, it is leading to a new Internet frenzy.

Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is expected to go public.

Google Inc's Android mobile operating system was the top smartphone platform in China last year, growing its market share by about 35 percent in the world's largest market for mobile phones, a Chinese technology research firm said.

Fans of the classic 1980s post-apocalyptic RPG “Wasteland” are making themselves heard. Thanks to the overwhelming number of contributors via Kickstarter, a sequel to the PC Western-themed game is in the works and players are finally beginning to see the culmination of their efforts.

AT&T is finally granting its customers permission to unlock their iPhones after fulfilling the minimum contract period for the phone.

It seems Samsung enthusiasts have been so wrapped up in Samsung S3 rumors that they failed to consider the Galaxy Note as the S2's sequel, which is what Samsung's UK VP considers it to be.

Earlier this week, the online streaming media company, Netflix, filed a statement with the federal government to create it's very own political action committee: FLIXPAC. The new PAC will allow Netflix to directly contribute to federal campaigns, thus boosting the media company's Washington profile. More specifically, A PAC can give $5,000 to a candidate per election (primary, general or special) and up to $15,000 annually to a national political party.

Microsoft acquired Netscape as part of a billion-dollar deal in which the company bought 800 patents and licenses from AOL Inc.

Google celebrates the 182nd anniversary of the birth of Eadweard J Muybridge, a British groundbreaking photographer who was renowned for his film-strip racehorses that captured all four of their hooves off the ground at the same time.

With Apple's yearly pilgrimage for developers - the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) - is highly rumored to get started June 11 in San Francisco's Moscone West, speculations are rife that the Cupertino tech giant will take the wraps off its iOS 6 and may be the sixth generation iPhone aka iPhone 5 during the event.

“Hi Zeddie, If you were a pancake, would you be a chocolate chip, banana, or blueberry pancake?”Oh yes! “Ridiculously photogenic guy” Zeddie Little’s frenzied Internet fans have literally asked him such inane, crazy questions on Tumblr and his new Facebook page and, surprisingly, the extremely flattered runner has answered all modestly.

The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday.

The current focus of iPhone 5 rumors surround the phone's release date and anticipated new design, but few people are talking about the iPhone 4S's favorite feature: Siri.

More than 40,000 employees at AT&T Inc will keep working under the terms of an expired labor contract while their union continues negotiations with the telephone company, averting a potentially costly strike for now.

Britain's advertising regulator is deciding whether to launch an inquiry into Apple Inc's marketing of its latest iPad following what some customers said were misleading claims about access to 4G, which is not available in the country.

If the name Next Media Animation, or NMA, doesn't ring a bell, then how about this: crazy Taiwanese animators. Chances are you've come across one of NMA's signature videos.

A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday showed few signs that it was prepared to support a request by Apple Inc to block immediately the sale of some Samsung Electronics smartphones and tablets.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have built a stable quantum computer system within a diamond, signaling a breakthrough in the scaling down of computer size with an increase in speed and performance.