Feb. 23, 2012 | DEREK DU PREEZ

Wal-Mart Stores, the retail umbrella company that owns ASDA, has announced plans to take a 51 per cent majority stake in Yihaodian, a China based e-commerce website.

Feb. 22, 2012 | ELLEN MESSMER

Qualys, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based security firm specializing in vulnerability assessment and management, is poised for an initial public offering (IPO) later this year.

Feb. 22, 2012 | ERIC GEIER

There's been much controversy over mobile OS security, especially where Android is concerned.

Feb. 22, 2012 | KIM S. NASH

Just as all politics is local, so are supply chains local.

Feb. 22, 2012 | MATT PECKHAM

Apple's next-generation MacBook Air could launch soon.

Feb. 22, 2012 | SARAH MCBRIDE (VIA SMH)

CEO of a gaming start-up, Josh Buckley, 20, is looking forward to March's Game Developers Conference. There's one problem: he may be turned away from parties because he's not old enough to drink.

Feb. 22, 2012 | DAMON BROWN

Microsoft now denies it will release Microsoft Office for the Apple iPad, despite a recent screenshot and report from The Daily.

Feb. 22, 2012 | SERENITY CALDWELL

Sharing, sharing, everywhere

Feb. 22, 2012 | JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN

Growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of Apache Hadoop.

Feb. 22, 2012 | SHARON GAUDIN

Just months after Twitter and Google failed to reach an agreement for Realtime Search, the microblogging site has inked a deal with Russian search engine firm Yandex.

Feb. 22, 2012 | BEN CAMM-JONES

Two activist groups have claimed that Apple has promised to open up at least two Chinese plants to environmental inspectors.

Feb. 22, 2012 | ROY HARRIS

The shakeup in workplace conditions --- and especially pay levels --- at Apple Chinese partner Foxconn Technology is occurring far faster than most observers expected. It was just over a week ago, after all, that Apple said it was asking the Fair Labor Association, a global worker rights group, to audit working conditions at plants operated by its largest suppliers, including Foxconn.

Feb. 22, 2012 | KIM S. NASH

The customer is always right, but how would you know?

Feb. 22, 2012 | ANUSHKAR MOHINANI

Foo Fighters frontman, in his Grammy Award acceptance speech, honoured the “human element” of music that has lost its place in the digitally advanced industry.

Feb. 22, 2012 | ROBERT S. ANTHONY

No, it wasn't the black bomb bird or the one that poops explosive charges, but the sight of a red Angry Bird patrolling the skies at last week's Toy Fair 2012 was jarring just the same, even as it generated smiles by the dozen.

Feb. 22, 2012 | DAN MOREN

Apple has published an overview of its carbon footprint for 2011, breaking down how factors such as manufacturing, transportation, product use, recycling, and its facilities influence its effect on the environment.

Feb. 22, 2012 | KAREN M. KROLL

Michael LaBaw, president of Sound Telecom fell into barter about a quarter-century ago, when a client couldn't come up with enough cash to cover its bill.

Feb. 22, 2012 | LOYD CASE

Remember netbooks? Those inexpensive, highly portable, long-battery-life laptops made primarily for lightweight tasks like Web browsing? Netbook sales have declined. In the United States, sales have dropped precipitously since 2010, and the trend in the rest of the world is starting to follow.

Feb. 22, 2012 | COLIN NEAGLE

After watching customers continually download and install one of the vendor's free, limited products from the company website, Silver Peak CEO Rick Tinsley was interested to see how they would respond to the same access to its more advanced products.

Feb. 22, 2012 | LUCIAN CONSTANTIN

A team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, one of the most popular video-based antispam tests on the Internet, and have proposed a solution to increase its resilience to attacks.