Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors prowess.

Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.

An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested.

Microsoft reported weak quarterly Windows sales and gave a current-quarter earnings forecast at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down nearly five percent on Thursday.

Yahoo is working to rewire the dozens of services across its site so that users can manage all information about themselves in a single place and share it with friends across the web.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request.

eBay has released its latest quarterly results, showing strong performances from its Skype and PayPal subsidiaries.

The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its president, Dominic Sartorio.

Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google's advertisements on its search pages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Yahoo may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street's view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle.

Symantec is acquiring AppStream, a maker of application streaming technology.

Yahoo will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies said Wednesday, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from Yahoo's present ad strategy.

Yahoo has yet to get a white knight to step forward and defend the search giant, but on Tuesday it scored a re-confirmation of an endorsement from Legg Mason, its second largest shareholder, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Yahoo, responding to a three-week deadline issued by Microsoft for acceptance of its $42.2bn (£21.2bn) takeover bid, again rejected the deal as undervaluing the web pioneer.

Yahoo is not opposed to Microsoft's bid for the web media company, as long as it is at the right price, Yahoo's board said on Monday in a letter to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said on Thursday that legal "grey areas" overseas made doing business internationally difficult.