Hasbro buys 70 pct of mobile game maker Backflip

As more people play mobile games, toy company Hasbro Inc. is investing in a company that develops games for smartphones and tablets.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 file photo, Dell CEO Michael Dell smiles at Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. A top proxy firm is recommending that Dell shareholders vote in favor of a deal that would allow the company's founder and an investment firm to buy it and take it private, according to reports Monday, July 8, 2013.

ISS recommends vote for Dell founder's offer

Three top proxy advisory firms are recommending that Dell shareholders vote in favor of a deal that would allow the company's founder and an investment firm to buy the computer maker and take it private.

In this Friday, May 31, 2013 photo, Robert Post, 85, talks to The Associated Press about his home, in Mantoloking, N.J., which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy last year. Post has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone, but the phone company refuses to restore the area's landlines after they were damaged by the storm. Verizon doesn’t want to replace washed-away lines and waterlogged underground cables because phone lines are outdated, it says. Meanwhile, the company is offering a wireless device that can be plugged into home phones for service, but the system does not work with pacemakers or fax machines.

Big disconnect: Telcos abandon copper phone lines

Robert Post misses his phone line. Photo Gallery Available

Obama turns to tech to help gov't modernize

Congress is hardly falling over itself to fulfill President Barack Obama's legislative wish list, and Americans by and large think of Uncle Sam as a spendthrift.

Thomson Reuters suspends early data access

Thomson Reuters will suspend its practice of distributing results from consumer surveys a couple seconds early to clients who pay the news and business information provider for advance access.

FILE - This undated file photo of former New York City police Officer Gilbert Valle with his baby daughter, was submitted into evidence by the defense in the trial of Valle, who was convicted in March in a bizarre plot to kidnap, cook and cannibalize women. Prosecutors alleged that Valle abused the FBI-operated National Crime Information Center database to to help compile dossiers on women he could possibly kidnap. It is not the first time a crooked officer has misused the database for cyber snooping and other offenses.

NYC cases show crooked cops' abuse of FBI database

It's billed by the FBI as "the lifeline of law enforcement" - a federal database used to catch criminals, recover stolen property and even identify terrorism suspects.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg delivers her speech during Global Women Leadership Summit in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 2, 2013.

Facebook pushes search feature to more users

Users who may have grown frustrated with Facebook's rudimentary search feature are getting an updated version designed to make it easier to find people, places and photos on the site.

China, US to discuss cybersecurity at forum

China is ready to discuss strengthening cybersecurity with U.S. officials at a high-level forum next week and wants Washington to help settle territorial disputes in East Asia, officials said Friday.

S&P further downgrades Nokia after NSN purchase

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's on Friday downgraded Nokia Corp.'s credit rating, citing the deal this week to buy out Siemens from its Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture for 1.7 billion euros ($2.21 billion).

Nigeria: Gay activists cyberattack gov't portal

Nigeria's Ministry of Information says it has defeated a cyberattack on its government website by foreign gay-rights activists.

China, US to discuss cybersecurity at forum

China is ready to discuss strengthening cybersecurity with U.S. officials at a high-level forum next week and wants Washington to help settle territorial disputes in East Asia, officials said Friday.

FCC approves Softbank bid for Sprint Nextel

The Federal Communications Commission says it approved Softbank Corp.'s bid for Sprint Nextel Corp.

Samsung estimates disappointing Q2 profit

Samsung Electronics Co. estimates its April-June operating income at 9.5 trillion won ($8.3 billion), a record high for the world's largest smartphone maker but short of expectations.

Samsung forecasts record profit but shares tumble

Samsung Electronics Co. reported record quarterly profit Friday but its shares tumbled on doubts its mainstay smartphone business can maintain rapid growth. Photo Gallery Available

FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, Ben Gleitzman uses a traffic and navigation app called Waze as he drives to work in Menlo Park, Calif. The record-breaking sale of Israeli navigation company Waze to Google earlier this month told the world what Israel’s tech experts have known for years: The mideast country is now a major player in Internet innovation.

Waze could lead way to Israeli Internet growth

The billion-dollar sale of navigation company Waze to Google may finally be putting Israel on the map as a major player in consumer Internet innovation.

Report: France operates PRISM-like spy network

A leading French newspaper says France's intelligence services have put in place a giant electronic surveillance gathering network.

FILE - In this April 9, 1997 file photo, Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse and winner of the half-million dollar 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize, poses with the computer mouse he designed, in New York. Engelbart has died at the age of 88. The cause of death wasn't immediately known.

Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88

Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.

Tech Q&A: IPhone quirks can be costly for your contact list

QUESTION: My daughter and I both have iPhone 4S smartphones. We recently had all of our contact lists deleted for no apparent reason, and it seems that I have no way to retrieve them. What happened, and what can I do?

FILE -This undated artist's rendering shows the Jason-1 satellite. The U.S.-French science satellite that tracked rising sea levels for more than a decade and helped forecasters make better weather predictions worldwide has gone dark. NASA announced Wednesday July 3, 2013 that it has decommissioned Jason-1 after its last remaining transmitter failed. It will run out of battery power within 90 days but remain in a graveyard orbit for about 1,000 years before falling back to Earth.

Ocean satellite dies after 11 1/2-year mission

Jason-1, a satellite that for more than a decade precisely tracked rising sea levels across a vast sweep of ocean and helped forecasters make better weather and climate predictions, has ended its useful life after circling the globe more than 53,500 times, NASA announced Wednesday.

Commuters wait in traffic on Interstate 80 on approach to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Monday, July 1, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. Negotiations between the two largest unions representing more than 2,300 Bay Area Rapid Transit workers and BART management broke off late Sunday despite the request of California Gov. Jerry Brown in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal.

Interest in carshare apps surges after BART strike

Just days before hundreds of Bay Area Rapid Transit workers went on strike, the online ridesharing network Avego bought a new Web address: bartstrike.com.

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