BOSTON The hacking collective Anonymous is claiming credit for defacing the Boston Police Department's website.
TOKYO For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley.
WARSAW, Poland Poland's prime minister says he is suspending the ratification process for an international copyright treaty after widespread protests and attacks on government websites.
LONDON Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
BRUSSELS The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.
NEW YORK The goody-two-shoes among us say it's better to give than to receive. That's not true for the average Facebook user, though.
Facebook has filed paperwork for an initial public offering of stock. Its public debut will be the most anticipated tech IPO since Google went public in August 2004.
SAN FRANCISCO For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the site generated per user last year.
LOS ANGELES Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon. But analysts said the halo effect may fade, because some companies basking in Facebook's glow just aren't as financially sound as the world's largest social network.
NEW YORK AOL and the Huffington Post are launching a live video network that aims to combine broadcast news with social media.
The "Final Fantasy" franchise, now in its 25th year, has one of the most enthusiastic fan bases in all of video games. And those fans made their voices heard after the 2009 release of "Final Fantasy XIII," which jettisoned some of the series' long-standing features in exchange for a more streamlined, action-packed narrative.
MacWorld is nothing like it used to be after Apple pulled of the trade show a few years ago. Still, this year's show produced a lot of gadgets, along with what seemed to be an endless supply of iPhone and iPad cases.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Figuring out how to pack a processor and other electronics into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge for engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, so weapons experts say the miniature guidance system the lab has developed is a breakthrough.
NGONG, Kenya Anthony Omari earned the still-fresh 11-stitch scar that runs from his forehead to his upper lip in one of the noblest ways imaginable: By taking a machete to the face while defending an under-resourced Kenyan orphanage from attacking thieves.
MUMBAI, India Amazon.com is coming to India, with the Thursday launch of Junglee.com, a watered-down version of its global shopping portal.
NEW YORK Viacom Inc., the owner of Paramount Pictures, MTV and Comedy Central, on Thursday posted a 65 percent drop in net income for the latest quarter, as it took a charge related to the "Rock Band" series of video games.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Figuring out how to pack a processor and other sophisticated equipment into a machine gun bullet has been a challenge, but engineers at Sandia National Laboratories say the miniature guidance system they've developed is a breakthrough.
Facebook's much-hyped initial public offering promises to be an exciting spectacle when the social media giant goes public this spring. But should you update your status to "shareholder"?
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is baring its business soul.
TOKYO Hammered by weak TV sales, a strong yen and production disruptions from flooding in Thailand, Sony Corp. on Thursday reported a net loss of 159 billion yen ($2.1 billion) for the October-December quarter and more than doubled its projected loss for the full fiscal year.
