Alibaba Reaches Agreement With Yahoo, Softbank on Alipay Payment Schedules

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reached an agreement yesterday with Yahoo! Inc. and Softbank Corp. (9984), its largest shareholders, ending a four-month spat over how to compensate investors after an ownership change in China’s most popular online-payment service. Alibaba, which transferred the Alipay unit to a company controlled by Chairman Jack Ma last year, will get as much as $6 billion if Alipay sells shares to the public, according to a statement...

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Bill Gates sells 5m shares in Microsoft

Bill Gates sells 5 million shares to fund the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Bill Gates has sold another 5 million of his Microsoft shares, according to a regulatory filing. Microsoft's multi-billionaire founder has been selling shares in recent months. He is the company's non-executive chairman, having stepped back from running the software firm in 2008 to concentrate on his charity work. According...

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Microsoft ordered to pay dollar 70 million to Alcatel

The US software giant had been ordered to pay dollar 358 million to Alcatel-Lucent by a different court but the damages award was thrown out on appeal. The US appeals court upheld the lower court’s ruling that Microsoft had infringed a patent involved with selecting the date in Outlook and other programs but asked for a recalculation of the damages in the case. The new jury, sitting in the US District Court for the Southern District of California,...

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Apple, Google and Microsoft revalue smartphone DNA

A battle royale has recalibrated the market for smartphone DNA. With Apple, Google and Microsoft duking it out for control of the mobile market, each needs or desires more and better patents for supremacy. Without them, their devices are vulnerable to shakedowns for royalties or, worse, demands to stop using the innovations. This has sparked a mad dash to acquire such portfolios -- for use as both a saber and a shield. The auction of some 6,000...

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Google+ Passes First Tests, but Challenges Remain

Showered with intense praise and criticism during its first month out in a limited beta trial, Google+ has eluded the failures of other Google social networking efforts, but it's too early to tell if it will fulfill its ultimate mission as a Facebook slayer. Compared with Google Buzz, the Twitter-like service that ignited a disastrous privacy firestorm, and Orkut, the seven-year-old social networking site popular mainly in Brazil and India, Google+...

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Skype update connects you deeper with Facebook

Skype has released the latest update to its online calling software for Windows, offering more options for Facebook users. Officially out of beta since Wednesday, the latest Skype 5.5 for Windows lets you check which of your Facebook friends are online and available to chat, all without having to leave Skype. Simply clicking on the View menu in the Skype software and then choosing Facebook Friends shows you the list. By clicking on and then closing...

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Facebook offers bounty to bug hunters

Facebook wants to give out $500 Facebook wants you to crush the bugs plaguing its online infrastructure – and it is willing to pay you a substantial amount of cash if you can. In an open letter published today, Facebook reps invited  researchers to pick through its site, and look for errors that "could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data," including scripting flaws and "remote code injections." Your reward? Somewhere...

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Congress gathering debt-crisis feedback via Facebook

(CNN) -- As members of Congress navigate the shifting political sands of the debt-ceiling crisis, many of them are turning to a digital platform more associated with sharing personal updates and funny videos about cats: Facebook. In recent days, lawmakers have swarmed the popular social network to post videos outlining their positions, conduct opinion polls, reach new constituents and ask for feedback. "Over the past week, our team has seen a...

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JustHost Internet Hosting Approach – How To Set Up

I am certain that if you are going to this web page, you will be interested in Justhost. With a JustHost hosting  approach, it is quite straightforward to set up a web site with WordPress. It is designed to enable you with everything that you want in managing a weblog from set up to incorporating plug-ins. The subsequent are pointers and measures that you can engage in to setup your very own blog. With a domain identify and a JustHost account,...

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Some Mistakes With Your Site Cloud Hostings Are Never Worth It

“Your target market is ultimately what creates or breaks your site, and which plus excellent site cloud hosting is about to serve you adequately in your business. Your site may win cloud hosting awards, some nevertheless whenever the content fails to satisfy your readers, and so those awards is about to incline to really not matter much method. This article is about to discuss some web cloud hosting mistakes which we feel allbody should acknowledge about. Good Cloud hosting is a should for your business. There should never be all guesswork involved when it comes to grasping the intention of your site. Whenever you have been overline much method,...

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Washington Post website jobs section hacked

WASHINGTON — The Washington Post said Thursday that a hacker had gained access to nearly 1.3 million email addresses and user IDs on its online jobs section. The Post said no passwords or other personal data were compromised in the attack on the jobs section of WashingtonPost.com which occurred last week. "We quickly identified the vulnerability and shut it down, and are pursuing the matter with law enforcement," the Post said. "We sincerely...

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Google+: Google Reverses Its Social-Network CurseGoogle+: Google Reverses Its Social-Network Curse

 With technology, as in the rest of life, eternal verities have a funny way of turning out not to be so eternal after all. For eons, everybody has known that Google is hopelessly inept when it comes to building social-networking services. Each one it has unveiled has seemed to confirm that truism, from Wave (shuttered 2½ months after opening to the public) to Buzz (still extant, but famous mostly for the uproar over its shoddy privacy practices). Last...

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Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter As Google+ ambitions come into view

Google chairman Eric Schmidt reckons that Mountain View's decision to keep invites to its latest social network to a minimum is already starting to pay off for the company. It announced Google+ last week, when it began a limited "field test" that was clearly done to make the project more desirable among the happy-clappy Web2.0 crowd. In a chat with reporters at the annual Allen & Co media shindig in Sun Valley, Idaho, yesterday, Schmidt claimed that tons of requests were flooding in for access to the firm's unfinished Google+ product. The company used the same tactic at the launch of its largely forgotten near real-time Google Wave communication...

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How to Strengthen Your Twitter Security in Four Clicks

As the team at Fox News discovered—to its chagrin—earlier this week, security lapses on social networks can have wide-ranging consequences. As we reported, persons unknown took control of the Fox News Politics Twitter feed in the early hours of July 4th, and started trying to spread rumors that the president had been assassinated. (MORE: Obama Dead Hoax Sweeps Twitter After Fox News Feed Hack) Luckily most people saw through the ruse, but it...

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Investigating Google

The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to open an investigation into potential anticompetitive or deceptive practices at Google is a welcome move. While the Internet company has been a leader in innovation, giving consumers exciting new choices online, the public’s interest lies in ensuring fair competition in this fast-changing arena. There is no conclusive evidence that Google abuses its dominance in search by putting its own services, like...

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Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking

Andy Coulson has been told by police that he will be arrested on Friday morning over suspicions that he knew about, or had direct involvement in, the hacking of mobile phones during his editorship of the News of the World. The Guardian understands that a second arrest is also to be made in the next few days of a former senior journalist at the paper. Leaks from News International forced police to speed up their plans to arrest the two key suspects...

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