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BEIJING - China's e-commerce giant Alibaba turned on major shareholder Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, calling the American company's support of Google in its standoff with China "reckless." Full Story »

BEIJING - China tried Friday to keep its censorship row with Google from damaging business confidence or ties with Washington, promising good conditions for foreign investors but giving no sign it might relax Internet controls. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Google Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of good will because of its threat to leave China over e-mail hacking attacks against dissidents. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama 'tweeted' his very first message on Monday, joining the millions who have used the Twitter micro-blogging site as a vital information vehicle for the Haiti disaster. Full Story »

Fox News posted an article Monday claiming that not only will next week's now-confirmed Apple event play host to the long-rumored tablet unveiling, but it will also see the next iteration of Apple's iLife software on show. Fox's report also claims that Apple will discuss the next iPhone OS update. Full Story »

Apple has filed a complaint with the ITC (International Trade Commission) requesting a ban on imports of Nokia mobile phones alleged to infringe on Apple patents. If the scenario sounds familiar it's because it follows Nokia's request that the ITC ban imports of Apple devices alleged to infringe on Nokia patents. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment will announce a five-year deal with British show business entrepreneur Simon Cowell on Tuesday, the Financial Times reported. Full Story »

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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez won't spare a kind word for video games, calling them 'poison' and accusing them of being proxies for capitalist warmongering. According to AFP, the outspoken US critic who once notoriously referred to George W. Bush as "the devil", used his weekly radio-TV show 'Alo Presidente' to put a match to Sony's PlayStation games brand. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Apple has announced it would show off its "latest creation" in San Francisco later this month, an event expected to feature the unveiling of a long-awaited tablet computer. Full Story »

Nokia first revealed details of it's upcoming mobile operating system (OS), Symbian^4, during the summer of last year, however the communications company submitted a proposal on Friday with a visual guide to how the new mobile OS may look. Full Story »

With the European Commission seen as virtually certain to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in just a week, those campaigning to prevent the deal encompassing Sun's MySQL database unit have shifted their efforts to regulators in Russia and China. Full Story »

BEIJING (AFP) - China's e-commerce giant Alibaba on Sunday condemned as "reckless" its partner Yahoo!'s support of Google, which has threatened to pull out of the Asian nation over censorship and cyberattacks. Full Story »

Zimbra customers, on an emotional roller-coaster ride since it was acquired by Yahoo, welcome VMware's plans to buy the open-source e-mail, calendar and collaboration software vendor. Full Story »

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will host a special event on January 27 where it is widely expected to unveil its tablet computer, as the company looks to extend its hot hand into a brand new product category. Full Story »

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