International Business Machines Corp. is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for at least $6.5 billion in cash. The price reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited unidentified sources familiar with the matter, would be a 100...

BURLINGAME, Calif. — In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search engines and determines the ads displayed next to...

Hunched over a small conference table, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe is in full spin mode. MySpace, which DeWolfe co-founded before selling it to News Corp. (NWS), has been getting a lot of bad press of late. Key executives are fleeing, the social...

Stumbled upon some nice quotes while surfuing the web - 1. You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen 2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de...

Timothy F. Geithner was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as Treasury secretary and will immediately face tough sledding as the Obama administration prepares to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to try to rescue the financial system.

A letter purportedly written by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed has threatened to blow up a dozen railway stations, including in Delhi, Meerut and Ghaziabad, cinema halls and the zoo in the national capital and target top politicians on...

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While visiting India, George Bush is invited to tea with Abdul Kalam. He Asks Kalam what his leadership philosophy is. He says that, it is to Surround him with intelligent people. Bush asks how he knows if they’re intelligent. “I do so by...

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