Shares of Yahoo Inc soared 10 percent on Tuesday on hopes that the departure of Jerry Yang, its embattled chief executive, would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo announced late on Monday that Yang, whose leadership had come under growing criticism from shareholders after he failed to agree to a deal with […]

Alarmed at the growing number of attacks off Somalia, international merchant shipping is edging closer to doing the unthinkable in peace time: by-passing one of world’s most vital trade routes.
Somali pirates have been plundering ships off the Horn of Africa for years, but the recent surge in attacks has spilled out into the Gulf of […]

Federal District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains ordered that Mark Papermaster “immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc until further order of this court.”
Apple announced on Tuesday that Papermaster would lead the engineering teams making Apple’s highly successful iPods and iPhones and that he would report directly to Chief Executive Steve Jobs. On Friday […]

Computers at the headquarters of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns were hacked during the campaign by a foreign entity looking for future policy information, a source with knowledge of the incidents confirms to CNN.
The source said the computers were hacked mid-summer by either a foreign government or organization.
Another source, a law enforcement official […]

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Obama is making a history on all presidential candidates in the history of American politics. Obama is trying to reach the ages 18-34 male in America who is hardly reading the news and watching TV. Obama bought an advertisement on 18 Microsoft Corp’s xbox live service online games to promote his online registration and early […]

Canada’s 70-year-old law to control the release of voting results on election night has again stumbled in the age of the Internet.
Within minutes of polls closing on Canada’s Atlantic Coast on Tuesday bloggers were making the results known in parts of the country were voting was still going on.
“I believe the polls have just closed […]

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A blogger who accused Morocco’s monarchy of encouraging a culture of dependency where loyalty is rewarded with favors has been jailed for showing disrespect for King Mohammed, his family and rights groups said on Tuesday.
Mohamed Erraji, 29, wrote in online newspaper Hespress that the north African kingdom had been destroyed by the practice of handing […]

How would you react if your newly purchased iPhone already has a picture of stranger? This is the latest buzz at Macumors.com. A forumer under the nickname of markm49uk had purchased a new iphone and upon activating the itunes there he saw a photo is already set in the home screen.
Here are the pictures..