| Thais face jail if they send campaign Tweets during poll Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:45 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thais face jail if they campaign during Sunday's election on social media sites such as Twitter, with more than 100 police monitoring sites to make sure the law is enforced. Full Story1 |
| Apple, RIM in group buying Nortel's patents for $4.5 billion Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:05 PM PDT Reuters - TORONTO/BANGALORE (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Research In Motion are part of a winning consortium of six companies buying bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp's remaining patent portfolio for $4.5 billion, in a hotly contested auction that saw Google and Intel lose out. Full Story1 |
| Samsung Electronics creates component division as LCD struggles Thu,30 Jun 2011 10:22 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co named the head of its chip business to lead a newly created division encompassing the firm's semiconductor and flat-screen operations in a move widely seen as aimed at overhauling its struggling LCD unit. Full Story1 |
| Chinese police arrest 36 in Alibaba.com fraud sting Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:24 PM PDT Reuters -  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested 36 people in connection with operating fraud on Alibaba.com that prompted the resignations of the firm's top executives in February, the company said.Full Story1 |
| Justin Timberlake: Stealth Silicon Valley angel? Thu,30 Jun 2011 04:57 PM PDT Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network" was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.Full Story1 |
| RIM agrees to study board changes; avoids vote Thu,30 Jun 2011 04:55 PM PDT Reuters -  TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion succumbed to rising shareholder pressure on Thursday, agreeing to study a split of its co-chair and co-chief executive roles and dodging a showdown at its annual meeting.Full Story1 |
| Trade body backs part of ruling against Kodak Thu,30 Jun 2011 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak shares plunged 15 percent on Thursday after a U.S. trade panel upheld portions of a ruling unfavorable to the company in a patent fight over digital camera technology in cellphones. Full Story1 |
| LightSquared submits GPS report to FCC Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dispute between Harbinger Capital's telecom start-up LightSquared and GPS makers flared on Thursday with each side blaming the other for interference between systems like aviation navigation and a high-speed wireless network that LightSquared wants to build. Full Story1 |
| Google stops invitations to new social network Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:19 PM PDT Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc stopped inviting users to join its new social network less than 48 hours after beginning a limited rollout of the service.Full Story1 |
| Dealtalk: Private equity scours HP for cracks Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:06 PM PDT Reuters -  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If private equity firms had their way, Hewlett-Packard Co would look less like a monolithic tanker and more like a small fleet of streamlined schooners.Full Story1 |
| VoiP firm 8x8 signs cloud partnership Thu,30 Jun 2011 10:16 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Internet telephone company 8x8 Inc said it entered into a partnership with Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) to speed up deployment of its cloud computing services on a new platform, sending its shares up to an eight-year high. Full Story1 |
| Court set to approve DBSD's $1.4 billion sale to Dish Thu,30 Jun 2011 10:08 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge is prepared to approve a plan to bring DBSD North America out of bankruptcy by selling the telecommunications company to Dish Network Corp for about $1.4 billion. Full Story1 |
| Amazon protests California Web-sales tax plan Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:29 AM PDT Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc warned its 10,000-plus California sales affiliates on Wednesday that it may be forced to sever ties with them should the state begin taxing their online sales.Full Story1 |
| Factbox: States gird for battle in Web tax war Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:29 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Over the past few years, new battle lines have been drawn in the war over taxing Internet sales. States where revenue is climbing back at a slow rate from recessionary lows are calculating the money they have forgone by not collecting sales taxes on goods sold by big on-line retailers such as Amazon.com Inc and Overstock.com. Full Story1 |
| HMV to refocus on gadgets as profits slump Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:11 AM PDT Reuters  LONDONN (Reuters) - British retailer HMV Group Plc aims to ramp up sales of MP3 players, headphones and tablet computers to offset sliding demand for CDs and DVDs and inspire a recovery from near collapse. Full Story1 |
| Apple/RIM group top Google in $4.5 billion Nortel sale Fri,1 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT Reuters -  TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple, Microsoft, RIM and three other companies joined forces to outbid Google at an auction for Nortel wireless patents, a move that could result in big licensing fees for Google.Full Story1 | Top |
| Apple seeks injunction in Samsung patent case Fri,1 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple asked a U.S. court to issue a preliminary injunction against Samsung on four patents in a dispute between the two companies, according to a court filing. Full Story1 |
| Go Daddy in deal to be bought for $2.25 billion: source Fri,1 Jul 2011 02:44 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web hosting company Go Daddy Group Inc announced on Friday it is being bought by a private equity consortium led by KKR and Silver Lake. Full Story1 |
| AT&T to support PlayBook Bridge app... finally Fri,1 Jul 2011 01:14 PM PDT Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a delay of more than two months, AT&T Inc has agreed to support BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd's Bridge application, which lets BlackBerry users see email and other services on RIM's PlayBook tablet without incurring additional charges.Full Story1 |
| Analysis: BlackBerry under attack in corporate cradle Fri,1 Jul 2011 12:23 PM PDT Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The BlackBerry, once ubiquitous in business, faces deep challenges in that market as more companies allow employees to pick their own smartphones and add third-party security applications.Full Story1 |
| Google hires 12 lobby firms in wake of FTC probe Fri,1 Jul 2011 12:18 PM PDT Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Search giant Google Inc, facing a broad antitrust probe into its business practices, has hired 12 lobbying firms, a spokeswoman from the company said on Friday.Full Story1 |
| Google's Chrome tops 20 percent market share Fri,1 Jul 2011 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter. Full Story1 |
| Hulu starts sales talks Fri,1 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales talks with about a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc, according to a source familiar with the situation.Full Story1 |
| Nokia to exit Japan cellphone market by August: report Fri,1 Jul 2011 10:22 AM PDT Reuters - BANGALORE (Reuters) - Nokia Corp. will finally exit the Japanese cellphone market at the end of August, the Nikkei reported. Full Story1 |
| Better laws needed to counter cyber attacks: U.S. Fri,1 Jul 2011 08:57 AM PDT Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security threat. Full Story1 |
| Germany's kitchen robots learn to be more human Fri,1 Jul 2011 06:53 AM PDT Reuters -  MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - For your average robot, chess may be easy compared to simple everyday activities like frying a sausage, but that may be about to change thanks to software being developed by scientists in Germany.Full Story1 |
| Japan's Hoya to sell Pentax camera business to Ricoh Fri,1 Jul 2011 04:54 AM PDT Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese optical glass-maker Hoya said on Friday it would sell its Pentax camera business to copier and printer maker Ricoh, in a deal the Nikkei business daily said was worth about 10 billion yen ($124.2 million).Full Story1 |
| EU to reveal mobile roaming price cap plan Fri,1 Jul 2011 04:21 AM PDT Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to present next week its plan to eliminate differences between domestic rates and mobile calls abroad, making post-travel bill shock a thing of the past. Full Story1 |
| Facebook crashes advertising industry party Fri,1 Jul 2011 02:29 AM PDT Reuters -  LONDON/PARIS (Reuters)- While traditional advertising groups jostled for awards at a recent annual industry gathering in Cannes, the year's biggest star was a newcomer to the beaches: the social network Facebook.Full Story1 |
| Thais face jail if they send campaign Tweets during poll Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:45 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thais face jail if they campaign during Sunday's election on social media sites such as Twitter, with more than 100 police monitoring sites to make sure the law is enforced. Full Story1 |
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