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French minister Frederic Lefebvre and Microsoft on Saturday announced a partnership to cultivate promising Internet startups in France.

Women are more likely than men to delete friends from their online social networks like Facebook and tend to choose more restrictive privacy settings, according to a study.

Women are more likely than men to delete friends from their online social networks like Facebook and tend to choose more restrictive privacy settings, according to a study published on Friday.

Twitter was abuzz on Friday with loving words for Steve Jobs on what would have been the late Apple co-founder's 57th birthday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Proview Electronics, the firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China, has a plausible claim over the unusual methods Apple used to conceal its identity when attempting to acquire Proview's trademarks, according to several legal experts. But Apple also has some strong defenses …

A US hedge fund with a large stake in AOL laid claim on Friday to five seats on the board of directors of the Internet company and criticized the strategy of the current management.

Hacker group Anonymous on Friday vandalized the website of a major US prison contractor in the latest salvo in an anti-police campaign.

(Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP nominated a slate of five candidates to AOL Inc's board, saying discussions with the company in the past two months were unsatisfying. Starboard, which together with its affiliates owns 5.2 percent of AOL's stock, said it had been approached by several third parties who …

(Reuters) - Hedge funds' love affair with technology industry darling Apple Inc has rewarded some managers so far this year but half the industry, having been less savvy with its bets, is limping behind with subpar returns, new research from Goldman Sachs shows. Apple, a current favorite with prominent managers like David …

The Los Angeles Times said Friday that it will begin charging online readers next month, the latest major US newspaper to require a subscription to its website.

Lighter, faster and even smarter smartphones will premiere at the world's biggest mobile fair next week, sparking a race for ways to prevent network overload from rendering the phones "dumb".

While Apple's iOS and Google's Android may be battling it out for dominance of the smartphone market, network quality could be more important to consumers than the phone's operating system (OS) claims a new study. 

The Washington Post Co. reported a lower fourth-quarter net profit Friday on weakness at its education division and declining print and online advertising revenue at its flagship newspaper.

While Tim Cook and Apple may be remaining tight-lipped on the next-gen iPhone, one design firm has analyzed online rumors surrounding the much anticipated ‘iPhone 5' and produced a series of concept images. 

LONDON (Reuters) - Consumers' increasing love of using services like Facebook and YouTube on their smartphones is leaving many telecoms carriers sidelined while bearing the costs of ever-growing demands on their networks. As users lap up mobile Internet services, the Web giants are strengthening their relationships with …

In two years tablet devices reached the same level of adoption in the US market that smartphones reached in seven years according to a February 23 report by analytics firm comScore. 

(Reuters) - Apple Inc has been forced to de-activate "push" notification features for mobile users of its iCloud and MobileMe services in Germany, after an injunction was issued in favor of rival Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. Customers using push services -- which automatically inform users about new messages on iPhones, …

Apple's iPhone 4 was the most acquired phone in both the USA and the EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) according to a February 23 report by analysts comScore.