Eric Pfanner New York Times

Samsung executives bristle at the notion that its products are imitations. Yet many of them acknowledge that their company followed Apple into smartphones.

3D technology makes chip designing and manufacturing more complicated and expensive.

Google's ability to gather and combine user data is key for the company, whose search engine has about 95 percent market penetration in Europe.

Skype, the popular Internet telephone service, said Monday that it hoped to raise $100 million in an initial public offering of stock.The announcement -- which came a few days after news of the initial offering by another Internet company, Demand...

When Prince William of Britain weds Kate Middleton on April 29, the event will be commemorated by a series of media firsts.

Pakistan is moving beyond what has been a makeshift approach to censoring the Web, setting out a plan for a filtering system akin to the so-called Great Firewall of China.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.

When Prince William of Britain weds Kate Middleton on April 29, the event will be commemorated by a series of media firsts.

BBC journalists have called off a strike scheduled for next week, saying on Thursday that management had agreed to meet with union leaders to try to resolve a dispute over proposed pension cuts.The National Union of Journalists, which represents 4,100 of 17,200 workers at the BBC, said its willingness to resume talks was dependent on management's d...

If relations between the BBC and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp deteriorate any further, executives might soon resort to slashing each other's tires. Usually the BBC and News Corp, which controls the Sky pay-television service and some of the biggest newspapers in Britain, clash over matters like broadcasting regulations. Now they are battling over a r...

Skype, the popular Internet telephone service, said Monday that it hoped to raise $100 million in an initial public offering of stock.The announcement -- which came a few days after news of the initial offering by another Internet company, Demand Media -- could help revive the market for technology offerings. Analysts have speculated that Skype's s...

Two of the biggest European operators of Internet betting sites, PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment, said Thursday that they planned to merge, forming the world's largest publicly traded online gambling company.The deal comes at a time when a number of governments both in Europe and the United States are relaxing the rules on online gam...

Samsung executives bristle at the notion that its products are imitations. Yet many of them acknowledge that their company followed Apple into smartphones.

3D technology makes chip designing and manufacturing more complicated and expensive.

Google's ability to gather and combine user data is key for the company, whose search engine has about 95 percent market penetration in Europe.

Skype, the popular Internet telephone service, said Monday that it hoped to raise $100 million in an initial public offering of stock.The announcement -- which came a few days after news of the initial offering by another Internet company, Demand...

When Prince William of Britain weds Kate Middleton on April 29, the event will be commemorated by a series of media firsts.

Pakistan is moving beyond what has been a makeshift approach to censoring the Web, setting out a plan for a filtering system akin to the so-called Great Firewall of China.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.

When Prince William of Britain weds Kate Middleton on April 29, the event will be commemorated by a series of media firsts.

BBC journalists have called off a strike scheduled for next week, saying on Thursday that management had agreed to meet with union leaders to try to resolve a dispute over proposed pension cuts.The National Union of Journalists, which represents 4,100 of 17,200 workers at the BBC, said its willingness to resume talks was dependent on management's d...

If relations between the BBC and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp deteriorate any further, executives might soon resort to slashing each other's tires. Usually the BBC and News Corp, which controls the Sky pay-television service and some of the biggest newspapers in Britain, clash over matters like broadcasting regulations. Now they are battling over a r...

Skype, the popular Internet telephone service, said Monday that it hoped to raise $100 million in an initial public offering of stock.The announcement -- which came a few days after news of the initial offering by another Internet company, Demand Media -- could help revive the market for technology offerings. Analysts have speculated that Skype's s...

Two of the biggest European operators of Internet betting sites, PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment, said Thursday that they planned to merge, forming the world's largest publicly traded online gambling company.The deal comes at a time when a number of governments both in Europe and the United States are relaxing the rules on online gam...