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With two of its most distracting conflicts resolved in the past week and a half, Yahoo Inc hopes its new interim chief executive can focus on the biggest challenge of all: turning the company into a digital entertainment destination that wins back the advertising dollars flowing elsewhere.

Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company's initial public offering, potentially proving particularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday.

ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device.

Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004. The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for Web surfers' allegiance and online advertisers' money.

Steve Jobs was asked to work in the night shift in his young days because of his ‘temperamental nature’, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed.

Smartphone users are more likely to reveal private information in a public space and are less likely to believe their conversations are annoying to those around them compared to those who don't use a smartphone, according to a study by researchers at Tel Aviv University.

US President Barack Obama tweeted his support of gay marriage May 9 in a historic message that read "Same sex couples should be able to get married."- President Obama.
Since then that message has swept across the microblogging site being retweeted over 54, 000 times.

Steve Jobs, who was known as a great innovator, a perfectionist and a savvy businessman, was also an actor. In 1984, Jobs, who was then CEO of Apple for the first time, played the part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a short film.

Greenpeace India activists Tuesday urged global computer maker Apple to use renewable energy to power its data centres worldwide instead of fossil fuels like coal for protecting the fragile ecology.

An explosion of people checking into social networks is being exploited by mobile application makers and private detectives, who say they can use people's online chatter and photos to track them and find out where they live.

Australia's air safety watchdog warned Friday of the potential dangers of lithium battery-powered devices after an iPhone that had undergone unauthorised repairs started smouldering on a flight to Sydney.

A court in China's Shanghai city has jailed a teenager for two years for hacking two Japanese shopping web sites and stealing over 6,000 pieces of credit card information.

Fans of the popular game Angry Birds who want to see its characters come alive on the big screen, will have to wait for some more time, as its creators are right now interested in doing only webisodes, with the film following later.

The Sikh Coalition, a US based community group, has launched FlyRights, an innovative mobile application that allows users to report instances of airport profiling in real time.

A never-seen-before interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will premiere next month. In the interview, Jobs speaks about how he pulled off a prank call to the Pope, saying he was US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.