EBay Inc plans to sell a 65 percent stake in its online phone unit Skype for $1.9 billion to private investors including Silver Lake and a venture firm run by the Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.
India is considering a new law allowing strict checking of all imported telecommunications equipment, the latest move to plug security holes after last year's Mumbai attacks.
EBay Inc plans to sell a 65 percent stake in its online phone unit Skype for $1.9 billion to private investors including Silver Lake and a venture firm run by the Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.
EBay said on Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Skype to a group of investors including Web pioneer Marc Andreessen and Silver Lake Partners.
The Federal Communications Commission will open an inquiry to examine the various technologies to block children from watching programs with sex and violence, the agency's chief said on Monday.
Germany's consumer electronics trade show IFA may lack the glitz and glamour of other fairs, but this year it will attract more attention than usual as the tech world turns to Berlin for any signs of an upturn.
Internet auction and services company EBay Inc has reached a deal to sell its online telephony unit Skype to a group of private investors, the New York Times said, citing two people briefed on its plans.
Norway's Opera Software released on Tuesday a new version of its browser, Opera 10, promising faster downloads, new design and new features.
Nokia has delayed to next year the launch of its music service in the United States, the world's largest music market, Forbes magazine reported online on Monday, quoting a Nokia spokeswoman.
Google Inc is shipping its Chrome browser with Sony Corp PCs, sealing the Internet company's first such deal since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft.
Yahoo Inc board member Carl Icahn has cut back his stake in Yahoo, selling nearly 13 million shares since last Thursday, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
The PC notebook market continues to shift from full-sized notebooks to smaller, less expensive mini-notebooks.
Apple confirmed Monday that its hosting a special, invitation-only event for September 9, 2009, confirming rumors that have circulated for the past couple of weeks.
After announcing the game's release for Sony's PSP in October, Rockstar Games revealed Monday that they'll be taking it to the iPhone and iPod Touch as well.
The battle over privacy protections online is moving to a new arena: The next major phase in the history Google's Book Search service.
Apple Inc said on Monday that it would host a media event next week, when the company is widely expected to unveil an updated line of iPod media players.
Apple confirmed Monday that its hosting a special, invitation-only event for September 9, 2009, confirming rumors that have circulated for the past couple of weeks.
Fox is teaming with Twitter to give repeats a 21st century twist.
German election officials said on Monday they were investigating whether exit poll data were made public on Twitter before polls closed on Sunday and there might be an appeal against the result if laws had been broken.
Apple announced last week that it would make its iPhone available in China late this year, the company confirmed on Monday that its three-year agreement with China Unicom is not exclusive to the carrier.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, said on Monday it would open an online store for smartphone applications on September 14 in Europe.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies.
Apple users in France are unfortunately not the most satisfied consumers.
India's national space agency said that communications with its first unstaffed spacecraft to orbit the moon were lost on Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the orbiter.
The popular video-sharing Website YouTube, owned by Google, announced an expansion of the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP), which was first launched in December 2007.
Social networking sites have become the latest target for burglars as they seek out new targets, according to a report from insurance company Legal & General warns.
Microsoft slashed the price of its Xbox 360 Elite console in the Asia-Pacific region after recently cutting the price in the U.S.
South Korea's LG Electronics said on Sunday it would launch a 15-inch television set using organic display technology next month, the largest commercial model so far.
Sun Microsystems Inc reported a fourth quarter loss on Friday, as the computer server maker's planned acquisition by Oracle Corp nears expected completion.
Apple's iPhone will go on sale later this year in China, the world's largest mobile market, but its partner China Unicom may find selling the phone carries its own burdens.
