Yahoo! chairman, three directors stepping down
Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock announced Tuesday he was stepping down from the board of the struggling Internet company along with three other directors.
View ArticleAsia helps drive Facebook’s 1-billion goal
As Facebook nears saturation levels in some Western countries, Asian users are helping drive the social-networking leader's march on the one-billion-user milestone and beyond.
View ArticlePediacities’ Filipino tech founder to give New Yorkers info they can use
Winning the grand prize in the 2012 NYC BigApps contest was only a beginning for Filipino tech startup founder Joel Natividad. A year later, in the same prestigious app award-giving body that honored...
View Article500 days at Ecuadorian Embassy: A ‘difficult’ life for WikiLeaks founder
“It’s difficult to wake up over 500 days and see the same walls,” said Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks in a world exclusive press conference via Skype from the Ecuadorian...
View ArticleKaty Perry is new queen of Twitter
Pop star Katy Perry has overtaken Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter.
View ArticleObama, Cameron ‘selfie’ at Mandela memorial creates online stir
US President Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela's memorial service with his stirring eulogy on Tuesday, but it was his grinning "selfie" with the Danish and British...
View ArticleBritish PM laughs off ‘selfie’ at Mandela memorial
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday laughed off criticism that he had acted inappropriately by posing for a mobile phone "selfie" with US President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's...
View ArticleAmazon’s Bezos airlifted off Galapagos in health scare
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was recovering Saturday after being airlifted off the scenic Galapagos Islands because he was suffering from severe kidney stones, an Ecuadoran official said.
View ArticleNeil Young unveils high-definition music player, store
Singer-songwriter Neil Young announced plans Monday to launch a high-definition portable music player and download service, saying it will improve the experience of listening to digital music on the go.
View ArticleBishop Cruz admits he needs more practice at ‘selfie’
This senior prelate has jumped on the "selfie" bandwagon too.
View Article@michelleobama joins Twitter revolution
US First Lady Michelle Obama quickly snapped up tens of thousands of Twitter followers Thursday, as she joined the social network and opened a new front in her husband's reelection campaign.
View ArticleNew Google chief joins illustrious Indian club
India's high flyers have proudly welcomed the appointment as Google's new chief executive of Sundar Pichai, the latest home-grown engineer to rise to the top of the US corporate world.
View ArticlePsychology research is often questionable, study finds
Scientific studies about how people act or think can rarely be replicated by outside experts, said a study Thursday that raised new questions about the seriousness of psychology research.
View ArticleStudy says earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans
The world's oldest known cave art was crafted by Neanderthals more than 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe, showing that our extinct cousins were capable of symbolic thinking just...
View ArticleFirst violins imitated human voices – study
Music historians have long suspected that the inventors of the violin wanted to imitate the human voice, and a study released on Monday showed how 16th- to 18th-century luthiers in Italy did it. The...
View ArticleInquirer business reporter among PH’s top female mindgrabbers —Google
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine Daily Inquirer senior business reporter Doris Dumlao was among the top female Filipino mindgrabbers on the Internet in 2010, the local unit of Silicon Valley-based search...
View ArticleHackers post phony Tupac story on PBS website
WASHINGTON—PBS officials say hackers have cracked the public TV broadcaster’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed...
View ArticleAvatar director James Cameron named National Geographic explorer
WASHINGTON – Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron fulfilled a teenage dream Thursday when he was named National Geographic explorer-in-residence, a title that means as much to him as the Oscars he has won...
View ArticleWorld iSad
SAN FRANCISCO—“There may be no greater tribute to (Steve) Jobs’ success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented,” US President Barack Obama said of the...
View ArticleMe and Mr. Jobs: He changed my world–thrice
Steve Jobs remade my world. And he did it thrice. The first was with the Macintosh computer and the desktop publishing revolution it helped start. The second was with the iPhone and the third was with...
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