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For all that he achieved in his life in terms of his public image, Steve Jobs was famously not a public philanthropist, unlike his equally titanic tech rival, Microsoft’s former head Bill Gates.

The ongoing crisis at Yahoo may now have tempted some new parties including Singapore’s Temasek as well as Bain Capital, joining other parties said to include Facebook, Microsoft, Providence Equity Partners and Alibaba Group.

Motorola Solutions, the “old” Motorola sector not being acquired by Google, introduced its ET1 Tablet, an Android-based device intended for retail and factory use.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of the world’s most valuable technology company, died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy that would make his rivals envious.

Quotes and tributes of world leaders, celebrities, tech leaders and company top executives on the death of Steve Jobs.

The Microsoft Corp. has finalized its acquisition of communications company Skype. The European Union approved the plan this week, and Microsoft is hoping there will be no more delays in the process.

Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.

Reports show that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the planning stages and making deals to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs movie about the Apple co-founder.

Apple has been really taken a bite this time, albeit a bitter one. The company's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away at 56 years of age after losing his battle against a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

The new iPhone can now be preordered.

Turmoil in the stock market has “frozen” initial public offerings by technology companies and could harm development and job growth, National Venture Capital Association President Mark Heesen warned.

The United States claimed Steve Jobs as one its national heroes, but the rest of the world loved him too much to let him go down in history as just an American genius. The outpouring of heart-felt grief across the world over his death was encapsulated by global media that tried to put Jobs' place in history in perspective. Here is a glimpse into how global media looked at Steve Jobs and his legacy:

Back in June, everyone was talking about the Wii U, Nintendo’s first video game console with high-definition graphics unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles.

A look at how people are mourning Steve Jobs.

TNT will remember Steve Jobs' death by re-airing its 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Amidst an outpouring of social media tributes to Steve Jobs on Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Apple co-founder's death, so have donations toward awareness and research of his longtime battle with pancreatic cancer.

TNT has scheduled back-to-back re-airings Thursday night (8 and 10 p.m.) of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 TV movie about the race between technology rivals Apple and Microsoft to build their computer empires.

Steve Jobs is dead, but his legacy will live on for decades to come. Here are the top 5 ways his work changed the world.

Microsoft has released a trailer highlighting the perks of the Xbox's latest transformation from a games console into a full- fledged multimedia venture that's brings cable television to the 360 console.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing, music and mobile phones, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 56, deemed irreplaceable by millions of fans of the operating system, died on Wednesday due to his long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, beginning in 2004, when he underwent transplant surgery for it.