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Apple came close to matching Android's smartphone market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a Nielsen report released Wednesday. The debut of Apple's iPhone 4S in the fall had a major impact on the proportion of smartphones sold in the quarter. Demand for iPhones increased nearly ...

Yahoo cofounder and former CEO Jerry Yang has left the company in the wake of pressure from shareholders and the appointment of a new CEO earlier this month. Yang announced his departure from all positions at Yahoo on Tuesday. Following the announcement, speculation grew that a general housecleaning...

Netflix shareholders have filed a class action lawsuit against the company, alleging that it withheld material information from investors about its growth prospects and plans for its fees before its stock plunged late last year. The suit was filed against the company's senior management in the U.S.

Travel is, by its nature, an adventure, and alternative travel companies are making it more unpredictable than ever. Want to sleep on an stranger's couch, for instance? There's a company for that: CouchSurfing. "CouchSurfing addresses the human need for connection and delivers inspiring relationship...

Adding to the small amount of information RIM has released about its 2012 line-up, further details have turned up, reportedly based on a leaked product road map. The BlackBerry maker apparently intends to expand its tablet portfolio with two new devices this year: The 10-inch PlayBook, previously ca...

Sites like Wikipedia and Google have vowed to take new steps in opposing SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, as the debate over the controversial proposed legislation continues. SOPA seeks to give new powers to law enforcement and copyright holders to fight the illicit exchange of copyrighted content ...

Facebook will likely make its initial public offering in May and could be valued as high as $100 billion, according to a recent report. The social networking giant boasts 800 million users worldwide and is expected to hit 1 billion in August, according to iCrossing projections. It's reportedly expec...

IBM continues to carve out its own stake in the social enterprise app space -- a market forecast by Forrester Research to grow 61 percent each year to reach $6.4 billion by 2016 -- with the beta rollout of the next release of its enterprise social networking platform, IBM Connections. The beta, whic...

Like every other CES I've attended, 2012 was one of the weirder, more ephemeral, and most compelling technology events of the season. Weird because since CES acts as an essentially level playing field for both the ridiculous and sublime, you can literally demo a pricey next-gen OLED TV while a coupl...

Salesforce.com has snagged a marquee name for its executive ranks: the former chief information officer of the United States, Vivek Kundra. Kundra, who left his post with the Obama administration last year, is joining Salesforce.com as executive vice president of emerging markets. Prior to serving a...

The White House delivered a body blow to the Stop Online Piracy Act when it announced Saturday that it opposed major elements in two Congressional bills that were intended to curb copyright violations on the Internet. The reactions were immediate. Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News. Corp., atta...

Thieves have made off with personally identifying data on 24 million customers of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos. Announcing the hack on Sunday, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said that the thieves broke into the company's system through one of its servers in Kentucky. Although customers' personal d...

If there were ever a mobile device that could not handle another blow, it would be Research In Motion's tablet device, the PlayBook. News has emerged of a vulnerability in the way the Playbook connects to corporate emails. Essentially, the flaw allows hackers to tap into the Bluetooth connection tha...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers began accepting applications for new generic top-level domains at one minute past midnight on Thursday. This is a major change for the Internet as we know it. The new gTLD program will expand the current selection of top-level domains such as ....

SOPA opponents -- that is, the people and organizations lining up against the Stop Online Piracy Act -- clearly still have their work cut out for them. At the same time, there are signs that the massive protest against the bill is having some effect. The bill's chief sponsor, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith...