Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon’s fourth-quarter net income dropped sharply, weighed down by higher operating expenses as the company continued to invest in its long-term growth plans at the expense of short-term earnings…. See the original post: Amazon 4Q results, outlook sends stock lower  Read More →

Tweet (Reuters) – Hard drive maker Seagate Technology’s posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings on strong margins, and followed rival Western Digital Corp in signaling a recovery from the floods in Thailand. Read more: Seagate Technology Q2 beats Street on margins  Read More →

Tweet DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Legendary rocker Neil Young took his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference Tuesday, saying a giant of the industry was on his side: the late Steve Jobs…. Read the rest here: Neil Young: Steve Jobs listened to vinyl  Read More →

Tweet SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A venture capital firm started by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen has raised an additional $1.5 billion to invest in promising technology startups…. Read the original here: VC firm Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.5B to invest  Read More →

Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — The television set won’t be the only place to watch video of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday. For the first time, U.S. football fans will be able to watch the Super Bowl live on a computer or on a phone…. The rest is here: Review: Super Bowl online decent, won’t replace... 

Tweet WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Planned changes to Google Inc’s privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. Originally posted here: Google defends change to privacy policies  Read More →

Tweet LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc has hired Dixons Chief Executive John Browett, who revived the British electronics retailer by emphasizing customer service, to lead the iPad maker’s global retail expansion. View post: Apple hires Dixons chief to drive global retail  Read More →

Tweet THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy’s virtual possessions in an online fantasy game. In the real world, he was beaten and threatened with a knife to give them up…. Visit link: Online game theft earns real-world conviction  Read More →

Tweet BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics breached antitrust rules in its legal battles against rivals, among them Apple, which use its mobile technology patents. More: EU regulators probe Samsung over mobile patents  Read More →

Tweet FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics lost a bid to overturn a ruling barring its local unit from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, handing a symbolic legal victory to Apple Inc in efforts to keep its lead spot in the tablet computer market. Originally posted here: German court upholds ban of Samsung’s older tablet  Read More →