Online auction giant eBay announced Tuesday it has agreed to sell 65 per cent of its stake in Skype to a group of investors in a deal that values the web communications service at US$2.75 billion.
Facebook recently made a US$500 million offer to buy micro-blogging site Twitter, according to a Wall St Journal website.
AOL is formally pulling the plug on its historic Web browser and is advising its users to adopt AOL spinoff Mozilla Foundation's Firefox instead.
Hewlett-Packard has opened its wallet once again to build its software business making a bid for vendors Opsware and Neoware.
In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux.
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The Netscape browser turns 10 years old on Thursday as a shadow of its former self, but the lights haven't gone out yet on one of the most storied brands in Web history.
Lead engineer Ben Goodger explains the behind-the-scenes decisions leading to the browser that's making Microsoft nervous.
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The AOL Time Warner unit touts improvements in navigation and spam control. Meanwhile, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen calls the state of navigation "an embarrassment."
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