WASHINGTON - Human rights activists rejoiced on Tuesday over Google’s threat to pull out of China, hoping it would be a “wake-up call” for businesses that make compromises to enter the giant market.
WASHINGTON - Human rights activists rejoiced on Tuesday over Google’s threat to pull out of China, hoping it would be a “wake-up call” for businesses that make compromises to enter the giant market.
SHANGHAI - Shares in China’s top search engine Baidu surged in after-hours trading Wednesday after Google vowed to defy China’s Internet censors and threatened to pull out of the country.
China’s largest search engine, Baidu.com, said that it was temporarily shut down after a cyberattack Tuesday.
US Internet company AOL said on Monday that it will cut jobs after a voluntary departure program failed to meet a target of trimming one-third of its global workforce.
Scientists have created a multitude of nano-scale materials, but they are practically useless, unless slotted precisely in the architecture of proposed devices, until now.
Apple has a knack for spotting problems we didn’t know we had. It can leave us wondering how we survived without vast libraries of music and TV shows in our pockets or the comfort of knowing “there’s an app for that.”
Cutting-edge technology grabbed the headlines at the premier US gadget show here but the showrooms also featured products better described as useful, useless and downright unusual.
A pocket-size laser projector and a set-top box which delivers Web content to your television were named among the best products in an annual competition as the CES prepared to wrap up.
Liquid Image, a company which made a splash last year with diving masks featuring a built-in still and video camera, now has its lens trained on the ski slopes.
Twitter, the popular but money-losing micro-blogging service, is hiring engineers and specialists who can help turn it into a money-maker.