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Chris Mok, like many Americans over the past few years, lost his job in the wake of the Great Recession.

The Justice Department will approve Google's $12.5 billion bid to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, according to sources close to the antitrust review.

Activision Blizzard Inc's quarterly sales beat Wall Street expectations on Thursday as the video game publisher lost fewer World of Warcraft subscribers than it did a quarter ago.

Is Steve Jobs a visionary and a creative genius, who had created the Apple empire and had radically changed the way people use technology in their daily lives, or is he a deceptive person with questionable moral character, drug-taking problem, someone who had abandoned his illegitimate daughter, and had distorted reality? A 191-page FBI file about Jobs, which had been compiled in 1991, and released Thursday, gives you the answer.

A Tennessee couple who defriended a woman on Facebook were murdered in their home by the jilted woman's father and another man, police said on Thursday.

Intel Corp agreed to pay $6.5 million to resolve an antitrust lawsuit in which New York's attorney general accused the world's largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars of kickbacks to maintain its market dominance.

Incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai aims to re-shape Sony Corp by linking hardware and software through online networks -- a model he used at its PlayStation unit -- dismissing any suggestion the battered brand would revert to a gadget-centered strategy under his management.

Even as Apple fans are keeping a watchful eye on the iPad 3's speculated release date, an analyst has suggested that the iPad mini is also on the way.

Magaupload, one of the world's leading file-sharing and online storage sites, has been shut down for about three week now. Does it mean the file-sharing activity has disappeared or at least decreased?

Various rumors about Apple's next generation tablet - dubbed iPad 3 - are swirling around the Internet and the latest one claims that the device will boast of amazing display and a faster processor, though the body size will be the same as its predecessor.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates opened a new $15 million visitor center at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Seattle campus Feb. 4, and now that construction is finished, the software titan can focus on his foundation's goals. That means helping people all over the world gain access to medicine and immunizations, helping small farmers in Africa and, of course, improving access to technology.

Once Apple releases the iPhone 5, mobile carriers in the U.S. might actually see how much sense it makes to release consumers from their expensive and constricting wireless contracts. That's because Sprint, AT&T and Verizon collectively lost more nearly $10 billion on iPhone sales over the last three months of 2011. That's the time of year they sell the most phones because of the holiday shopping season. But, because the big three pay nearly $600 to Apple per iPhone, those holiday sales ju...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has posted a 191-page file on its website concerning the background investigation of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Jobs was being considered for a presidential appointment to the President's Export Council of George Bush Sr. in 1991.

HTC has announced the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade is ready for the Sensation 4G on T-Mobile along with three other devices by the end of March. That means over the air updates should start rolling out by then, so not every Sensation 4G owner will get the upgrade right away.

Now that the all new Apple iPad 3 has a set release date of early March, the question now is will it be ethically produced by Chinese factory workers at places like Foxconn. Reports of poor working conditions in Chinese factories that make the $500 or more iPad, have forced Apple to confront the possibility it may have to intervene or at least make an effort to investigate the charges.

Get ready for iPad 3 - according to a report by AllThingsD, Apple may launch the next-generation iPad at the event which will be held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, where on March 2, last year, iPad 2 was unveiled.

U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.

A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker "Iceman" has been indicted on a federal charge, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Norton Zinder, a biologist whose research into the genetic material of viruses and bacteria led to a greater understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of life, has died at age 83.

The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launched by Chinese rockets.

A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings as Facebook, are turning the clock back on the way U.S. corporations are run.

Hacker group SwaggSec has hacked one of Foxconn's servers, leaking the company's internal information such as usernames and passwords for clients and employees, according to a statement SwaggSec has posted.

2012 is set to become annus horribilis for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. New Zealand government's Official Assignee, on Thursday, seized more assets of the Internet tycoon, including a car, jewellery, jetskis and a $4.3 million mansion.

Siri, the voice-controlled intelligent assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S, will support Chinese language from March, Tech in Asia reported, citing the Chinese tech site DoNews.

What gift will you give to your lover on Valentine's Day? Especially if you plan to buy a new smartphone, Nokia Lumia 800 might be a good choice.

To whet the appetite of Apple fans, who are eagerly waiting for the highly anticipated iPad 3, a purported rear shell of the yet-to-be-released tablet was leaked, suggesting several subtle changes from its predecessor.

Google now offers $100 for people who let them track their Web browsing with a black box called the Screenwise Data Collector. It's a deal through a company called Knowledge Networks, and the Screenwise data collection program is accepting emails right now for people who want to sign up when the program launches, tech blog Ars Technica reported.

Apple's 9% of global mobile market share seems enough to put the tech giant at the top in terms of profitability in the world mobile market for last quarter. According to an analysis by Horace Deiu, Asymco, Apple has garnered 75% of profit share and nearly 40% of revenue share by just controlling 9% of unit share.

All of T-Mobile's 4G smartphones are free during their Valentine's Day 2012 sale, and that includes the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Amaze 4G. Of course, you have to sign up with a new two-year contract to get that price, and you also have to buy one of the Classic or Small Business plans. Additionally, several other phones are free during the Feb. 11, one day only sale. The entire line-up of 4G-enabled devices, including the Springboard tablet, and three other non-4G phones are free on Satur...