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A $35 computer launched last year in India as the world's cheapest tablet has run into problems and companies will be invited to bid again to make the device after complaints of poor performance and hiccups rolling out a pilot model.

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham threw the Syrian gauntlet down to President Barack Obama, saying that anti-Assad protesters should be armed by the U.S.

A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.

Shares of Alibaba.com, an e-commerce company have risen 43% early Wednesday after resuming trade encouraged by the news that it would take the company private.

A year after Carmelo Anthony was traded from the Nuggets to the Knicks, who got the better of the deal?

Despite giving up his stock options for missing some of last year's targets, Alcatel Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen still believes the telecoms equipment maker will one day match rivals three or four times more profitable.

The International Telecommunication Union could pass new anti-Internet regulations by the end of the year, threatening new controls to stifle free speech. Starting at the end of February, Russia, China and many other countries will gather representatives in Geneva, Switzerland, to re-work a 1988 decision that has given rise to the open Internet many around the world have greatly benefited from.

Nike has presented its Team USA basketball uniforms for the 2012 Olympics in London. One word to describe them is light.

Dell, the No. 3, PC maker, reported fourth-quarter earnings two cents below estimates as revenue rose slightly above expectations.

Researchers uncovered a 300 million-year-old forest buried under volcanic ash in China.

A 300-million-year-old ancient tropical forest has been unearthed under volcanic ashes in China, according to a new report.

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is scheduled to convene its annual shareholder meeting Thursday at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.Here are three ket items to watch for.

George Soros does not have a favorable view of how Germany is handling the Eurozone debt crisis.

Thousands of young Portuguese have migrated to Mozambique in recent years – reportedly as many as 120,000 in 2011 alone.

Google is to bolster its Google Finance service by giving retail investors free access to real-time London Stock Exchange share prices.

Shares of Dell, the No. 3 PC supplier, have surged nearly 25 percent this year. Could investors be looking for the company to start surging in the services sector?

The London Stock Exchange Group is to provide real-time market data to Google, bolstering the search-engine's Google Finance offering with free access to London share prices previously only available with a 15 minute delay.

Conventional wisdom says the main reason why gold prices are rising is the loose monetary policy out of the developed world and a loss of faith in fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar.

Apple Inc's trademark battle moves to one of China's richest cities on Wednesday when a Shanghai court will deliberate a request by troubled technology company Proview to halt the sale of iPads across the city.

Under pressure from the United States, Japan is close to cutting its oil imports from Iran.

Apple fans are expecting the tech giant to debut iPad 3 on March 7, or at least in the first week of March, if rumors are to be believed, but they could be in store for disappointment - Apple might delay the release of iPad 3 as iPad tablets have been banned in China over a bitter trademark dispute between the tech giant and Proview – a bankrupt Chinese company.