Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications....
Ex-Groupon CEO working 9 to 5 on business album
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is diving into several new ventures, including indulging his inner rock star with an album of "motivational business music."...
Review: Toshiba brings high-res screen to Windows
NEW YORK (AP) -- Last year, Apple added a visually stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen ... until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display....
NewsRight dismantles, transfers brand to Moreover
NEW YORK (AP) -- NewsRight, an organization created to turn unauthorized publishers of newspaper content on the Internet into licensed customers, said it is disbanding and transferring its operations to Moreover Technologies, which monitors how Moreover's clients are portrayed in the media....
Hits and misses in Facebook's history
Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company....
Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
LONDON (AP) -- A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels....
Canada trying to lure Silicon Valley tech workers
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The Canadian government has launched an aggressive campaign to lure Silicon Valley tech workers frustrated by U.S. visa policies northward, just as Congress wrestles with a long-sought overhaul of America's immigration system....
Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's search engine, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party....
