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Article | 17/07/2012 New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer skips earnings call

Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, was absent from the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, disappointing any analysts who might have been hopin...

Article | 17/07/2012 Will Marissa Mayer bring new life to Yahoo as CEO?

Yahoo's appointment of longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new CEO is a bet on a strong, competent leader, though one without experience in...

Article | 16/07/2012 Skype glitch sends messages to the wrong contacts

Skype, a division of Microsoft, confirmed on Monday that a glitch in its software has led to instant messages being shared with unintended parties.

Article | 16/07/2012 LinkedIn unveils redesigned home page

LinkedIn unveiled an expected redesign of its home page on Monday, highlighting a cleaner interface and features intended to make updated content easi...

Article | 12/07/2012 News.me owner Betaworks to acquire Digg

The news-sharing website Digg will be acquired by technology investment firm Betaworks, according to blog posts put out by both companies.

Article | 12/07/2012 Microsoft launches its own angel fund

Microsoft has launched Bing Fund, an angel fund with an incubator program that will make Microsoft resources available to startups and potentially pro...

Article | 11/07/2012 In pursuit of business plan, Twitter riles developers

The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitt...

Article | 10/07/2012 EMG sues Google for infringing mobile device technology

EMG Technology has sued Google in US District Court, alleging that Google's Chrome mobile browser infringes a patent EMG holds related to touch Intern...

Article | 9/07/2012 Facebook's App Center available to all users in most English-speaking countries

Facebook has expanded access to its App Center to all users in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the U.K., the company ...

Article | 6/07/2012 Yahoo, Facebook settle patent dispute

Yahoo and Facebook have settled a patent dispute, according to a statement Facebook released Friday afternoon.

Article | 6/07/2012 Twitter bolsters search functionality

Twitter will bolster search functionality to automatically complete users' queries and suggest related search terms, among other improvements announce...

Article | 5/07/2012 Pew survey: Tech companies will have mixed record on dealing with repressive regimes

Internet experts are divided over whether technology companies will cooperate in the coming decade with repressive regimes that seek to limit or monit...

Article | 3/07/2012 RealNetworks CEO quits, Rob Glaser returns on interim basis

Thomas Nielsen has stepped down after just eight months as CEO of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based company best known for its RealPlayer multimedia-str...

Article | 3/07/2012 Twitter releases first report on gov't requests for user information

Twitter released a report on Monday about the user information requests it has received from governments this year and how it responded to them.

Article | 2/07/2012 ComScore: Samsung top in mobile phones, Android in mobile platforms in US

Samsung and Google dominate the U.S. markets in mobile phones and smartphone operating systems, respectively, according to new data from the analytics...