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HP's CEO Meg Whitman thinks the company can turn itself around by 2016. But HP, or parts of it, could become takeover targets.

Yoani Sanchez -- author of the dissident blog “Generacion Y” -- was freed by Cuban authorities after about 30 hours in custody.

People in Saudi Arabia have resorted to Twitter and Facebook to protest the sudden increase in chicken and egg prices by as much as 40 percent in the past two weeks.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' inventions have shaped how we live, work, and play. He may have been the greatest inventor of the Information Age.

As Facebook hits the 1-billion-member mark, it hopes to turn each user into an advertiser, whether they realize it or not.

Facebook hit its long awaited milestone of one billion active users on Thursday amid continuing efforts to secure more persuasive revenue streams than investors see today in the struggling social media giant.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) rose Thursday, a day when CEO Zuckerberg announced that the site now had 1 billion members.

Facebook also announced that it has received more than 1.13 trillion 'Likes' since it launched the tool in February 2009.

RainStor, a private developer of “big data” software, raised an additional $12 million in venture capital, raising its cumulative total to $23 million.

As file-sharing sites continue to come under attack from the RIAA, more music fans are using third party sites to convert the audio from YouTube to mp3 formats.

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CFO Cathie Lesjak also issued a dismal earnings forecast for 2013, warning of revenue declines, except for software.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) published a “marketing Bible” to turbocharge revenue and take advantage of new mobile platforms.

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) will launch a news operation along with its Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 as part of an overhaul for MSN.

Shares of BMC Software, which specializes in enterprise products, soared nearly 8 percent after a report it’s exploring a sale.

Karen Alongi had a nation believe she was kidnapped, but it was all a hoax, and twitter users who tried to help her are not pleased

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) will ship the HP ElitePad 900 tablet for business and government clients in January. The price will be announced later.

Workday, launched by PeopleSoft's Dave Duffield, upped its IPO, in what could be the hottest tech IPO of the quarter.

The search is still on for missing teen Kara Alongi, who posted a chilling Twitter message that went viral and launched several search parties.

Apple's App Store experienced an outage Sunday with users being unable to make a purchase or download a previous purchase owing to a Terms & Conditions bug. However, they were able to make new purchases by 12:46 a.m. EDT as the issue got resolved.

A little more than a week after its release, Apple’s latest Maps application for iOS 6 has been received so negatively by the tech world that the company even issued an apology for the app being inferior to Google Maps. And now Apple has removed a phrase on the company's website that had touted the app as the most "powerful” map app on the market.

Apple won't remove its new Maps app from iOS 6, so the Cupertino, Calif.-based computers company is all about damage control right now. After Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter apology to the company's website on Friday morning, Apple also updated its App Stores with a special section on the Featured page, which offers a list of alternative maps applications for users to choose from as Apple engineers fix its controversial Maps app behind the scenes.