Yahoo, Alibaba agree to terms of $7b stock sale
Yahoo and Alibaba have finally agreed to terms for the $7 billion sale of half of Yahoo's stake back to the Chinese e-commerce group.
Pakistan briefly blocks Twitter
The Pakistani government blocked access to Twitter from within the nation for around 12 hours, in retaliation for refusing to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
Apple, Samsung CEOs to talk truce today
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung chief Choi Gee-sung will meet today for a court-supervised mediation session, to try to hammer out a settlement in the patent war between the vendors.
ZTE admits to security flaw in Score handset
ZTE has confirmed the existence of a security flaw in its Score smartphone sold in the US, which can allow anyone with knowledge of a password available on the internet to gain control of the device.
India's TRAI got 4,000 telecom complaints in FY12
Indian telecom regulator TRAI fielded over 4,000 complaints over service quality last financial year. The majority of the complaints were against Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Reliance Communications.
Initial Facebook trading disappoints
Facebook stock failed to get the big first-day bump that market watchers had been expecting following the company's $16 billion IPO, leading one financial adviser to dub the process a “Face-flop.”
Nokia burning through cash too quickly
Analysts are concerned that Nokia appears to be burning through cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, with some worried that the company could have completely depleted its cash buffer next year.
Wales' Monmouth is first “Wikipedia town”
The Welsh town of Monmouth has become the world's first “Wikipedia town,” deploying barcodes at landmarks that when scanned through a mobile phone bring up the landmarks' respective pages on the online encyclopaedia.