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The Aim-quoted group's pre-tax profit more than doubled to £1.5m in the first half of the year as customer demand improved amid a still 'quite patchy' economic recovery

The Chinese internet group's headquarters may resemble those in Silicon Valley, but its executives say that unlike US rivals, the company focuses on users' needs, not cutting-edge technology

Hewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par after Dell said on Thursday it would not raise its offer and was ending talks

Samsung Electronics and Toshiba launch tablets to challenge Apple, as leading consumer electronics manufacturers say they could also compete with the US group

Software Radio Technology breaks into the black for the first time since joining Aim five years ago on the back of a surging order book

AOL renews a deal with Google on internet search advertising, expanding it to include searching on mobile devices and on the YouTube online video service

China's largest online search company launches a searchable applications library which allows third-party offerings in the library to launch directly on Baidu

Europe's largest IT services company has placed a bet on Latin America, announcing on Thursday a deal to buy a majority stake in CPM Braxis, Brazil's largest information technology services group

Indonesia's technology minister has taken his battle against pornography to the maker of BlackBerry smart phones, ordering the Canadian company to block digital content in one of its key Asian markets

The digital entertainment company made its most serious bid yet for the internet-connected television market, slashing the price and size of its AppleTV product by more than half

Apple did not make the dramatic re-entry into the market for set-top television boxes on Wednesday that some had expected, but it did make a better case for its Apple TV service

Government sends notices to the two internet companies asking them to set up servers in India so that Indian intelligence agencies can monitor e-mail and chat conversations on their systems

Sony set out its challenge to Apple and Google as it revealed an internet 'cloud-based' music streaming service that would be available on many of its networked consumer electronics products

Expect consumers to move at couch potato speed for smart TVs

US universities are producing too few engineers to meet industry demand, Indian outsourcing companies say, leaving such businesses little choice but to hire foreign skilled workers to fill jobs in America

For Indian outsourcing companies, the growing demand among employees and consumers for social networking-like functions represents a new frontier

Falling e-reader prices and a growing digital inventory help drive strong e-book sales for publishers, with as many as 10m e-readers expected to be in use in the US this year

Japanese consumer electronics group unveils latest generation of e-readers on Wednesday as the company continued to fight for territory in the digital book market

The UK is to introduce one of the world's most ambitious attempts to police online marketing next year, when the Advertising Standards Authority extends its regime to corporate websites, social networks and mobile applications

Online gambling group announces a cost-cutting programme to help arrest a slump in pre-tax profits that has forced it to forgo an interim dividend payment