Tweet (Reuters) – Apple’s Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee’s job, according to a court filing. Read more: Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers  Read More →

Tweet MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing. Excerpt from: Hacker group Anonymous targets Mexican websites  Read More →

Tweet (Reuters) – Facebook’s initial public offering is likely to set a new standard for how low investment banks are willing to go on advisory fees to win big business. Read the original post: In Facebook IPO, bankers seek prestige over fees  Read More →

Tweet NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws…. Read more from the original source: Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor  Read More →

Tweet WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp , Hewlett-Packard and others has been declared invalid, according to legal documents. See the original post here: U.S. government invalidates potent Rambus patent  Read More →

Tweet LOS ANGELES (AP) — Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report…. Continue reading here: Report: Facebook IPO filing could come next week  Read More →

Tweet SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression…. See the article here: Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship  Read More →

Tweet WASHINGTON (AP) — America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue…. Originally posted here: Report: Electronic health records still need work  Read More →

Tweet SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a German court has ruled against it in a patent suit with Apple Inc over mobile technology, the latest verdict in an intensifying global legal battle between the two technology giants. Here is the original post: German court rules against Samsung in suit with Apple  Read More →

Tweet TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo President Satoru Iwata dismissed the idea that the age of the dedicated handheld games device was over and said he aimed to return the company to substantial profit in 2012/13, after it warned of its first ever operating loss this year. See original here: Nintendo sees profit next year, but shares tumble  Read More →