Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Google edged a bit further ahead in January, going from 66.7% of the search market in December to 67%, industry tracker comScore said. ...
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Instagram has asked a court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit against changes in its terms of use, holding that the petitioner had the option to terminate her account if she disagreed with the new terms. The photo-sharing service, ...
OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, is investing heavily in automation -- but it isn't using that as a rationale to reduce its workforce. The company has deployed iPads in its restaurants in airport ...
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Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return "a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent" but ...
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There is a lot yet to be told about how going private will change Dell, but one thing it won't change is its enterprise strategy. With its $24.4 billion buyout, Dell's enterprise strategy "does not change," Jess Blackburn, a spokesman for ...
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Reports circulating that Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is considering a breakup of the company are untrue, a source close to company said. The financial news site Quartz.com reported on Tuesday that HP's board is again discussing ...
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Despite strong support from IT pros, SharePoint faces increased skepticism from business leaders and it's unclear whether the collaboration product will deliver cloud, social and mobile advancements needed for future growth. Those are ...
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A watch that doubles as a computer and two-way radio has been a technology vision since at least the 1950s. Recently, reports that Apple is building an iWatch have lit a fire under the smart watch concept, at least in part because of ...
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c , which shipped in August 2009, continued to resist retirement last month, new data showed. January statistics from Web analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Snow Leopard's share of all Macs at 28.2%, half a point higher than the ...
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.81 billion and revenue declined by 1.3%, and that it has started hunting for a new CEO. Current CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down as soon as a replacement is found, and will not seek ...
Twitter will soon give developers the ability to filter messages by popularity and language. The company said in a blog posting Wednesday that it will add two new fields to the public metadata it associates with messages on its service, ...
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A bug redirected people from third-party websites integrated with Facebook to Facebook.com. for a short period of time, the social networking website said Thursday. The temporary glitch, which affected users on Thursday afternoon, ...
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Suppliers to supermarket chain Morrisons have been left counting the cost after a glitch with a new computer system meant that many went unpaid. The company said that the cause of the glitch had now been identified. It is currently ...
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BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
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Autonomy, the software vendor led by Dr Mike Lynch (pictured) and bought by HP for $10.3bn (£7.1bn) in 2011, is to be investigated over allegations of accounting irregularities. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed it ...
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