TECHNOLOGY

Angry Birds maker Rovio said on Tuesday it had bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum.

Apple's hot-selling new iPad hit a hurdle in Australia on Tuesday as the country's consumer affairs regulator accused the company of misleading promotions.

Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai signaled his determination to turn around the group's ailing TV business by keeping direct charge of the division, as the Japanese brand fights to regain ground against rivals such as Apple.

Sharp Corp <6753.T> will announce a tie-up with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry <2317.TW> on Tuesday that would include the sale of part of its loss-making major factory in western Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Australia's consumer affairs regulator on Tuesday said it will file a motion with an Australian court against Apple Inc charging that it is misleading consumers with its promotion for its new iPad.

Norway's Telenor ASA, whose India joint venture is among companies that are set to lose their telecoms licenses, has served a notice to the Indian government, claiming damages of nearly $14 billion, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp claimed a victory in efforts to combat online banking fraud, saying it had confiscated several servers used to steal login names and passwords, disrupting some of the world's most sophisticated cybercrime rings.

U.S. tech giants Hewlett Packard and Oracle on Monday both sought pretrial wins in their bitter legal battle over whether Oracle can end support for Itanium, a heavy-duty microprocessor.

When it comes to Apple, investors could become victims of their own success.

HTC will release its second iteration of the aptly named Titan April 8, and the new Titan II LTE for AT&T will feature a huge 16 megapixel camera along with its giant 4.7-inch screen.

BMW has recalled 1.3 million cars worldwide due to a battery cable cover problem, which could potentially cause a fire, according to the premium car manufacturer.

AT&T has finally confirmed that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be released on April.8, priced at $99 with a two year contract.

A Japanese man has asked Google to suspend its autocomplete feature on the basis that the function is an invasion of his privacy and cost him his job.

Australia has blocked China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from tendering for contracts in the country's $38 billion National Broadband Network due to cyber security concerns, Huawei said on Monday.

When Apple released iOS 5.1 earlier this month, users who love to use jailbreak utilities were highly recommended to stay away from the firmware update. But here's some good news. iOS developer and hacker iH8sn0w announced Sunday that he had found a bug in Apple's APticket system that allowed him to downgrade his iPad 2 from 5.1 to 5.0.1.

Anite Plc said it had signed a multi-year contract with leisure travel company Thomas Cook Group UK Ltd , sending the software firm's shares up about 11 percent.

Apps, apps, apps! That is the main challenge that Microsoft and Nokia, who are trying to claw back market share from Apple Inc's iPhone and Google's Android in the red hot smartphone market, face now.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 release date is one of the best-kept secrets on the market, with still no official word from Samsung since the launch of the Galaxy S2 over a year ago.

Sprint customers finally get to choose between Android and iOS flagship phones when the Samsung Galaxy Nexus arrives to the carrier's lineup. For years, Sprint subscribers couldn't even get the iPhone, and now they are getting the Galaxy Nexus, a high-end device that will have many trying to decide which to get.

Last year, Apple managed to sell roughly 30 million iPhones in the last quarter alone. Since it launched the iPhone 4S, it sold about 20 million units of the handset, making it one of the best sellers in the history of smartphones. The next iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, is expected to be even more popular. Analysts forecast that Apple will sell about 50 million iPhone 5 units in 2012 and 2013.

Don Thompson's journey to the top spot at McDonald's Corp started in front of a computer, not a deep fryer.

In a breakdown that resembled a mini version of the 2010 flash crash, a series of glitches hit the market debut of BATS Global Markets Inc on Friday, causing the company to take the extremely rare step of withdrawing its initial public offering of shares.

Don Thompson's journey to the top spot at McDonald's Corp started in front of a computer, not a deep fryer.

Rovio is working on getting its new Angry Birds Space game to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform (WP7), putting Nokia and other Windows phones more on a par with the iPhone.

When Anton Marinovich turned 18, his grandmother gave him $1,000 with strict instructions to invest in the stock market. He chose Apple Inc.

Lockheed Martin Corp on Friday welcomed news that Norway planned to increase its order for F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets by four planes, and was considering pulling forward the delivery of two initial training jets by one year to 2015.

Stocks rose in light volume on Friday, buoyed by rising energy and basic materials shares, as the S&P 500 kept showing resilience even as it posted its second negative week so far this year.

Hewlett Packard raised its quarterly dividend by 10 percent, making good on a pledge to shareholders even as it struggles to stabilize its operations and grow its revenue.

New next generation iPhone concept designs are surfacing by the day, but the latest one from Antonio De Rosa of ADR studio is so sleek and imaginative that we can only wish it comes close to the real thing.