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When I sit down and think about my job, I realize that I am incredibly lucky. 20 years ago, job opportunities like this simply didn’t exist. If you wanted to write for a living, you either needed to have an incredibly wild imagination, or you had to be lucky enough [...]

Yahoo! has been foundering amid difficulties in the search and portal markets. With the recent management difficulties and even infighting among the board of directors, news has it that Yahoo! is ripe for the picking for potential buyers. But with complications in its assets, will the company off-load some of [...]

Microsoft has been in a long-standing legal battle against technology company i4i for alleged patent infringement with Word 2007. With a latest supreme court decision, the order for Microsoft to pay $290 million in damages has been upheld.

The PlayStation Network outage continues and we’re yet to find out what really happened. Sony posted a second round of Q&As on its blog regarding the situation, but that won’t suffice when it comes to calming down the potentially affected users, not to mention the authorities. And it won’t settle [...]

Another day goes by, another day filled with PlayStation Network outage rumors and reports. And from the looks of it, the hackers that did attack Sony last week managed to sneak away with at least a few million accounts under their belt.

Digg is the poster-boy of Web 2.0. Before Facebook, before Twitter, there was Digg. But facing tough times, the company has since been on the decline. With co-founder Kevin Rose leaving Digg, this might be the final nail in the coffin.

Advocates of nuclear energy have been highlighting the green benefits of nuclear power. Sure, there’s no carbon being burned, no fossil fuels being depleted, and it’s energy that lasts hundreds of years. But what if a catastrophe happens?

Japan is going through some terrible times right now. Not only did a horrendous earthquake hit the country but an even worse tsunami wave and a nuclear plant explosion affected the lives of so many people in the course of just a few days. And the worst is not yet [...]

One of China’s largest mobile communications company’s has been making quite a few headlines over the last few months. First a cell phone produced by ZTE was offered by Verizon, then ZTE launched an Android OS tablet and on the heels of that announced they would be offering up six [...]

Google announced today that it has acquired Israeli mobile and widgets developer LabPixies. Financial details were not disclosed, but the deal is rumored to be worth anywhere between $15 million to up to $25 million. This is quite outstanding considering that the startup company only raised $1 million in its [...]