What does a 31-year-old, 7-foot 6-inch guy in China do for an encore after a nine-year NBA career that made him his country's most famous athlete? Become a tech investor, of course. […]

U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open Friday, a day after plunging on fears of slow global growth ahead of Moody's downgrade of several major banks. […]

Reducing the amount struggling homeowners owe on their mortgages is proving to be a more effective way to prevent foreclosures than other methods, such as reducing interest rates or postponing payments, a new report finds. […]

Most luminaries who get to ring Nasdaq's closing bell show up for the occasion in a suit and tie. Paddy Cosgrave did the honors last week wearing jeans and red Converse sneakers. It was a fittingly casual flourish to cap off the New York debut of F.ounders, one of the hottest events on the tech conference circuit. […]

A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation. […]

Our political discourse today obsesses over economic headlines at the expense of technological foresight, say Ayesha and Parag Khanna. […]

The tiniest iPhone rumors can cause a big uproar. […]

The world has high hopes for Samsung's Galaxy S III, but does the smartphone live up to the hype? […]

BERLIN (Reuters) - All 27 countries in the European Union will support giving the European Central Bank a bigger supervisory role for the bloc's banking system at next week's summit, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Friday, citing EU diplomats. […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks, the woman at the heart of a scandal shaking Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the British government, appeared in court on Friday at the opening of her prosecution on charges of hiding evidence from police. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Private equity firm Bain Capital will buy a 50 percent stake in Jupiter Shop Channel, a television shopping company, for about 100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in Japan's largest private equity transaction this year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the firm. […]

ROME (Reuters) - The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain will try to find common ground in Rome on Friday to restore confidence in the euro zone ahead of a full EU summit next week, which Italy's prime minister called a defining moment. […]

Work is underway designing tiny robotic cubes imbedded with magnets on each plane that can create a duplicate of any object, either equal in size to the original or any size version as required. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Robotics department are currently working with two dimensional cubes of four sides, each cube containing a microprocessor wit […]

Mobile Phone Lumia 900 is here to stay. Lumia 900 is here thanks once again to the Finland Company Nokia. This is great news for the mobile phone giant that is presenting this device at a low cost and a streamlined design with a front-facing camera for video conferencing. This is putting it on the same playing field as the likes of Samsung and Apple that now […]

The government has finally agreed that creative and motivating ICT classes be reintroduced to the classroom by teaching children to program and put computer science back in the core of ICT lessons. The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is reported as saying that the present ICT curriculum was ‘demotivating and dull’. Advising Mr Gove on implemen […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Everybody likes a bit of variety and what better way to try out something different on vacation than by staying in an old monastery or a former school that has been reborn as a luxurious hotel. […]

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said it was investigating reports that one of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphones exploded in a user's car in Ireland. […]