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First-quarter earnings from Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) could be an early sign for performance by IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (Nasadq: MSFT).

Could Microsoft's new deal With RIM be a prelude to an acquisition?

Yahoo shares were steady after Tuesday's surge on news it has sold part of its stake in China's Alibaba Group.

Based on the last four years of Apple releasing new iOS software, we believe Apple will release iOS 6 today (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. PDT.

Sites like the Pirate Bay and uTorrent haven't enticed hundreds of millions of people to download endless amounts of free media content without making a few enemies. Those BitTorrent giants - and others like them - have built their businesses by outwitting the seemingly hapless MPAA and RIAA. The increased acceptance of illegally downloading media has affected the bottom line of the movie and music industry over the past decade, and that isn't good news for torrent fans.

Microsoft on Thursday evoked the famous Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign when it launched the "Bing It On" challenge, an online blind comparison test in which its Bing search engine goes head to head with Google

Obama's speech at the National Democratic Convention (DNC) 2012 in Charlotte Thursday not only instigated rounds of applause, but also broke a few Twitter records for political events. The speech was wildly popular on the social networking site, eliciting 52,757 tweets per minute, which was a new Twitter record for politics.

AntiSec, a hacker group which claims to be an offshoot of the notorious Lulzsec and Anonymous groups, published a database of a million devices identifiers from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable company.

Google Fiber + TV with its one gigabit per second Internet and cable television service is all set to change the dynamics of the broadcast media though its content line-up is yet to match up with traditional players.

Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.

Hackers gathered in Tel Aviv last week to discuss the state of cybersecurity, amid suspicions that Israel is behind attacks on Iranian computers.

One value of going public for any company is to raise cash as well as mint new shares for acquisitions. Facebook (Nasdaq: FB)?s $16 billion initial public offering was no exception.

At Sony’s PlayStation Spring Preview, an array of working titles for the PS3 and Vita platforms were showcased. But the event offered more than a sneak peak at upcoming releases; it proposed an idea that could shape the world of massive multiplayer online (MMO) gameplay.

It’s no secret that mobile applications have made everyday life easier and more convenient. Commuters can check their train schedules on the go, teens can play word games against opponents across the country, and bloggers can post updates on social media sites in a second. But now studies show that mobile apps impact more than just the individual—they’ve helped bump America’s unemployment rate down.

The Anonymous hacktivist collective dropped its #OpHiroshima bomb on New Year's Eve, and despite its success in pulling off a large-scale, wide-reaching document dump, the event has received very little coverage by the mainstream media.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, whose inventions/projects at Apple have shaped how we live, work, and play, passed away Wednesday at the age of 56. Arguably the greatest inventor of the post-World War II computer age, Jobs created innovative, utilitarian, and cool products -- including the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

The Federal Trade Commission has finally got Google chairman Eric Schmidt to testify in September in a hearing that will address fundamental questions of business operations (of Google) rather than merely legal issues. The federal regulators will investigate into the allegations that the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising.

Maybe we have seen just the tip of the iceberg. Leaving behind some rather bitter moments between other hacker groups, including Anonymous, LulzSec announced its decision to team up with Anonymous. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships. The hacker group wreaking havoc across corporations and government agencies among other organizations announced Operation Anti-Security moments ago in a post uploaded on Pastebin.