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Summly purchased by Yahoo!: how to become a millionaire at the age of 17 March 27th, 2013 - 06:10 am ET By purchasing the Summly application for tens of millions of dollars, Yahoo! has turned a 17 year old into a multimillionaire, while also providing him with a job.

Marissa Mayer: Google’s first female engineer to lead Yahoo! July 17th, 2012 - 09:45 am ET Marissa Mayer has quit Google after 13 years to take control of Yahoo!.

Android: British Telecom sues Google December 19th, 2011 - 11:23 am ET Android has found a new adversary with carrier British Telecom who has filed a law suit against Google in the United States for patent violations.

Rare Earths: new deposits found at the bottom of the Pacific July 06th, 2011 - 05:38 am ET Rare earths are required for the manufacturing of electrical equipment, with China controlling the market through the production of 95% of the world’s deposits, even though ...

Java: Oracle wants billions from Google June 20th, 2011 - 11:16 am ET Oracle is certainly not letting their complaint against Google go lightly for the use of their Java technology in the Android mobile platform, requesting billions of dollars in ...

Telecommunications: Huawei sues Motorola January 26th, 2011 - 09:20 am ET Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei has accused Motorola of transferring parts of their intellectual property to equipment manufacturer Nokia Siemens Networks during the sale of ...

Jon Rubinstein joins Amazon’s board of directors December 21st, 2010 - 09:20 am ET Jon Rubinstein, CEO of Palm and now vice-president at HP for mobile products, has joined Amazon’s board of directors. His role is to integrate his expertise into the company to ...

SAP ordered to pay Oracle 1.3 billion dollars November 24th, 2010 - 10:10 am ET In the affair which has opposed Oracle against SAP, the second party has finally been ordered to pay 1.3 billion dollars in damages for the theft of industrial secrets via ...

Oracle - SAP: Leo Apotheker remains invisible November 22nd, 2010 - 09:20 am ET In the ongoing legal process to determine the damages that SAP has to pay Oracle, Leo Apotheker - previous CEO of SAP and now CEO of HP remains unsighted and won’t be called as ...

Patents: Motorola copies Microsoft November 15th, 2010 - 09:10 am ET Facing a complaint filed by Microsoft for abusive licensing rights, Motorola has now reacted by increasing the pressure on Microsoft by adding sixteen patents allegedly in ...