SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK - Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, in a deal that values the world’s No.1 Internet social networking company at $50 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
NEW YORK - News Corp is still considering a sale of its social networking site MySpace but a person familiar with the matter told Reuters there are no talks currently with potential buyers.
NEW YORK — The bells weren't ringing for many iPhone users this New Year's weekend, when thanks to a glitch the alarms on Apple's iconic mobile phones failed to go off, causing many to oversleep.
NEW YORK — The microblogging site Twitter turned down a 500 million dollar purchase offer from the social networking site Facebook in 2008, according to the Financial Times.
NEW YORK — Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft’s online forum that all of their messages have disappeared.
Denying reports that it has agreed to allow access to its encrypted corporate data to Indian authorities, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said unscrambling encrypted email on its devices is simply not “technologically feasible.”
Kindle, that allows users to download and read digital copies of books and newspapers, is the most popular product of all time on Amazon - selling an estimated eight million in Britain and the US in 2010.
WASHINGTON — A virus infecting mobile phones using Google’s Android operating system has emerged in China that can allow a hacker to gain access to personal data, US security experts said.
Facebook surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.
NEW DELHI – BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has offered to install a network data analysis system at its premises in India that would help tap data, the Economic Times reported on Thursday, citing an internal note from India’s interior ministry.
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