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04.12.2007
Li Ka-shing foundation buys Facebook stake
Online social network Facebook.com has closed a $60 million investment by Li Ka-shing through the billionaire Hong Kong tycoon's foundation, a source familiar with the deal confirmed on Monday.
04.12.2007
Telenor to restructure Norwegian business
Telenor Monday said it is restructuring its Norwegian operation. A Norwegian unit, Telenor Norge, is established as part of Telenor Nordic.
03.12.2007
Japan's robots slug it out to be world champ
At Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, two-legged robots jabbed, ducked, hurled balloons and even sang in their quest to become world champ.
03.12.2007
Fujitsu deal to develop WiMax chips in Taiwan
Fujitsu and the Taiwanese government will on Tuesday announce that they will jointly develop WiMax broadband chips in Taiwan in a significant Asian alliance intended to commercialise the next-generation mobile technology across the region.
03.12.2007
Dell in $4.5bn advertising pact with WPP
Dell plans to consolidate its worldwide marketing, advertising and communications operations into a single new public relations unit led by WPP, the UK advertising group.
03.12.2007
Blog site that is popular in Russia is sold
LiveJournal, the personal Web publishing service that jump-started blogging in Russia, has been sold by its U.S. owner to a Russian business partner, which will operate it independently, the companies said on Sunday.
03.12.2007
Zander steps down as Motorola chief
Ed Zander, the embattled chief executive of Motorola, has stepped down as the mobile phone company struggles to contend with a slump in market share.
30.11.2007
Global cell phone use at 50 percent
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion - equivalent to half the global population - on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said.
30.11.2007
Facebook reins in “Beacon” ad system
Facebook, the online social networking website, on Thursday moved to placate users concerned about the threats to privacy posed by its new “Beacon” advertising system.
30.11.2007
Verizon set to begin trials of 4G network
Qualcomm and Intel were dealt a blow on Thursday when Verizon Wireless, the second largest US mobile phone operator, said it would start trials in 2008 of a rival fourth-generation network standard.
30.11.2007
AT&T chief lets slip plan for faster iPhone
Apple plans to unveil a new version of its iPhone handset next year with faster download speeds, according to Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, Apple’s US mobile partner.
29.11.2007
AMD sees chip market remaining competitive
Microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) sees pricing in the chip market remaining competitive, and aims to return to profitability soon, Chief Executive Hector Ruiz said on Thursday.
29.11.2007
Nintendo and NTT to promote Wii Web access
Video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd and telecoms operator NTT's regional units said they would cooperate in Japan to promote the broadband Internet access of Nintendo's hot-selling Wii game console.
29.11.2007
Adobe and Yahoo test running ads inside PDF documents
Software maker Adobe Systems Inc and Internet company Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday they will offer a service to let publishers run advertisements in Adobe's popular document-reading format.
29.11.2007
Google "My Location" to ease mobile map use
Internet search leader Google Inc said on Wednesday it is introducing a novel mapping system that uses cell phone towers to let mobile phone users locate nearby services without typing in addresses.