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Apple opened the floodgates of iPhone 4S on Friday, at 8 a.m. local time in US, UK, Canada, France and Germany following Japan and Australia in rolling out the company's flagship phone in retail stores.

Half of all Americans have heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and of the people who have heard of it, a plurality support its message, according to a poll released this week.

Five months after Microsoft said it would acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, the deal was approved and the transaction closed. Is Microsoft now ready to battle Google, whose proposed $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility is expected to close next quarter?

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Christopher Chaney, who has been accused of hacking into some Hollywood celebrities’ email accounts and peeking into their private photos and other information, such as movie scripts, offered a heart-felt apology and claimed that he just could not stop doing so, for he was addicted.

Google registered a revenue growth by a third to $9.7 billion in the past quarter, as net profits grew more than a quarter to $2.7 billion. The figures were announced at a time when technology industry analysts were more or less predicting that Google Plus was doomed to fail.

Internet search giant Google posted a big jump in its profits in the third quarter. Its net income rose to $2.73 billion as its online advertising revenue reached $9.72 billion in the third quarter.

Apparently Facebook doesn't like the controversial teen bride Courtney Stodden. The 16-year-old wannabe reality star, married to 51-year old actor Doug Hutchison, was recently banned from Facebook for posting alleged 'inappropriate sexual content.'

Add some more private equity bigfeet to the cluster that may be looking to acquire Yahoo: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group.

Spotify, the European music streaming service backed by digital entrepreneur Sean Parker, has more than 250,000 paying users in the United States since it opened up shop in July, according to three people familiar with its data.

Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment is mulling an IPO in 2012. With only one hit game to stand on, does the company have any chance of success in the stock market?

Women in India's capital, New Delhi, will soon be able to fight off potential attackers with a push of a phone button that will alert not only friends, family and police but also sound an alarm on their social networking websites.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Occupy Wall Street's encampment for the first time on Wednesday night to deliver a message: we need to clean the park.

Google+ traffic has plunged more than 60 percent after it went public on September 20, which makes everyone wonder whether the new-born social network has run out of breath already.

Senior Google Engineer, blogger and public speaker Steve Yegge accidentally posted a candid critique of the Google Plus platform, which he originally intended to share internally among his peers in Google. But being an inexperienced Google Plus user, he allowed his post to be visible publicly, before he decided to take it down.

The Google Inc.'s senior engineer Steve Yegge, who accidentally posted a critical comment about Google+ and calling it a complete failure, said the post was a long opinionated rant and it was intended to be an internal post but not external.

When Johnny Depp appears on Thursday at a museum to introduce his movie The Rum Diary, he will be doing what many stars do these days to promote passion projects that are seeing fewer art houses debut their films.

Apple rolled out its iOS 5 mobile operating system, one week after pancreatic cancer claimed the life of its former CEO and visionary Steve Jobs. The update adds voice recognition software called “Siri”, instant messaging and support for Apple’s iCloud service, although the inclusion of Siri is limited to the iPhone 4S. MacWorld’s Dan Moren says the free update is “ambitious” and that “there’s hardly a part of Apple’s mobile operating system that isn’t altered in some way”. Engadget’s Dante...

Steve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company's understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a complete failure. Here are five reasons we agree.

Today is the day for the Apple release download of its new iOS 5 operating system for mobile devices. With some 200 new features, it was eagerly awaited, to say the least by owners of Apple's bestselling iPhone, iPad and iTouch. But for Apple in the past week-and-a-half, it has been the best of times and the worst of times.

Brandon Kelley, the man who threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods, gave a completely irrational explanation Wednesday as to why he threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods.