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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

NEC is setting up a joint venture with Neusoft, China's largest IT outsourcing provider, to offer cloud computing in the country, the Japanese electronics firm's first move to offer such services outside its home market

Sony will begin its latest attempt to fight back against Apple's dominance in the digital media field, when it unveils a new music and video subscription service to run across a range of its devices

Report offers first comprehensive comparison of internet usage patterns in China, India, Russia, Brazil and Indonesia, that account for one-third of the world's internet population

Broadband companies are scrambling to ensure their version of the truth becomes the industry standard in the face of a spate of complaints about advertising claims for internet speeds

Within six months, every British company operating a website or a Facebook page will have to understand the rules of the Committee of Advertising Practice, or face digital humiliation

Maker of ball-tracking systems to the world's leading tennis tournaments and international cricket tests could have valuation of up to £20m

Investors who put up the early 'seed' capital for technology start-ups in the US have come up with a novel idea for how to value businesses that in most cases have not started trading: put the issue off until later

Intel's acquisition of Infineon still leaves the market open to distruptive innovation

One of the most significant additions to Gmail service automatically sorts through inboxes to find the messages users will find most interesting or important

The design company is making AutoCAD, its $4,000-software which currently runs only on Windows-based computers, available to Mac users after a 16-year absence

Google and the Associated Press have struck a new agreement for the search engine operator to carry the news agency's content, breaking a stalemate that had seen AP stories briefly disappear from Google News

Research in Motion and India's government avoided a standoff on Monday by agreeing to extend for two months talks over a demand to open all BlackBerry services to scrutiny by the country's intelligence agencies

Silicon Valley company, which supplies microprocessors for four out of every five PCs sold, has been desperate to diversify and break into the larger cellphone market

Intel, the US chipmaker, has agreed a deal to buy the wireless chip business of Germany's Infineon

A Scottish company that supplies enterprise software to an American-based global investment bank is discussing similar deals with other institutions