The 23-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named by an industry poll as the most influential person in technology for 2007.
Launched five years ago, Web Services business "is an investment," says CEO Jeff Bezos.
Last month, the 32-year-old celebrity co-founders of Google each sold more than US$160 million worth of their company's stock.
Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest list of the wealthiest people in the US, with Bill Gates and his US$51 billion fortune again topping the list.
Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing on Tuesday.
Relaxed Melbourne-based start-up Stateless Systems won't be the next Amazon or Google, but the founders are already internet legends and likely to become even more cool as they launch more quirky products.
While other tech honchos play hard to get, Microsoft's boss holds a first-of-a-kind chat with a blogger, writes News.com's Jeff Pelline.
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Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature.
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