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Cybercrime part of sophisticated online economy: study

Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)

The dark world of cybercrime has evolved from one of rogue individuals to a functioning market-based economy with its ups and downs, code of conduct and "innova...

Google partners with Ray-Ban maker for smart eyewear

Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)

Google on Monday said it is joining forces with the frame giant behind Ray-Ban and other high-end brands to create and sell Glass Internet-linked eyewear in the...

Cell phones catapult 'Shangri-La' Bhutan into modern age

Mar 24, 2014 (AFP)

Sitting in his office in Bhutan's sleepy capital, newspaper editor Tenzing Lamsang muses on the dramatic impact of cell phone technology on a remote Himalayan k...

Pinterest pinning ads to digital bulletin board

Mar 24, 2014 (AFP)

Pinterest on Monday said it will soon start pinning ads to its popular online bulletin boards. Advertising in the form of "promoted pins" will begin appearing o...

Singapore talks on Internet's future hear plea for freedom

Mar 24, 2014 (AFP)

Control of the Internet should be handed from US supervision to a diverse group of stakeholders, and not to governments that could limit freedoms, a meeting on ...

Online news attracts star power and big money

Mar 23, 2014 (AFP)

The news media is generating some big news of its own, as a growing number of star US journalists move online, bringing followers and financial backers with the...

Control of Internet in spotlight at Singapore talks

Mar 21, 2014 (AFP)

Stakeholders meet in Singapore Monday to discuss the future of the Internet after the US said it will hand over stewardship of its technical operations to a glo...

Support strong for open Internet in developing world

Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)

Support is strong across emerging and developing countries for an Internet without government censorship, a US survey showed Wednesday. The Pew Research Center ...

Google expands Android platform to wearables

Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)

Google said Tuesday it was bringing Android to wearable devices, as LG and Motorola started the countdown to Internet-enabled watches based on the dominant plat...

Google, Facebook drive gains in mobile advertising

Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)

The market for mobile device advertising doubled in 2013 to $17.9 billion and is on pace for strong gains this year, led by Facebook and Google, a market tracke...

Berlin takes world lead with own domain name

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

Berlin became the world's first city on Tuesday to have its own Internet domain name under plans to cater for Internet expansion. Companies and individuals in t...

Alibaba, Weibo see advantages in US listing

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

In picking the US to launch initial public offerings rather than their home market, Chinese technology companies Alibaba and Weibo are opting for maximum visibi...

Google, Viacom settle YouTube copyright suit

Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)

Google and Viacom announced a settlement Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit claiming the Internet giant's YouTube video-sharing site promoted copyright infringem...

TV, print still key for news: US study

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Americans might have embraced the latest gadgets but they are still partial to getting at least some of their news the old-fashioned way. Adults in the United S...

China's Giant Interactive to go private for $3 bln

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

New York-listed Chinese online game developer Giant Interactive said Monday it had agreed to be taken private by its parent, backed by a consortium which will f...

Sina Weibo, 'China's Twitter,' files for IPO in US

Mar 15, 2014 (AFP)

Weibo Corp., the Chinese microblogging service often compared with Twitter, filed Friday for a US stock offering seeking to raise $500 million. The move will al...

US to relinquish key oversight role for Internet

Mar 15, 2014 (AFP)

The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role overseeing the Internet's technical operations, handing over those functions to "the global mul...

Zuckerberg says US government threat to Internet

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he had called President Barack Obama to complain that the US government is undermining confidence in the Internet w...

Move over '123456': passwords go high-tech too

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to i...

Google grabs Green Throttle video game talent

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

Google on Wednesday confirmed that video game gear gurus from startup Green Throttle have joined its team, fueling talk of plans for an Android-powered game sys...