Yahoo said it had achieved solid second-quarter results in a difficult economic environment

Facebook has an opportunity to put the shine back on a company that has lost some of its lustre in recent months, with a new technology called Facebook Connect, according to people familiar with the company's plans

Strong Macintosh sales continued to drive profits at Apple as the computer maker reported its third-quarter results, but a tepid forecast sent shares in the computer maker lower

Yahoo bought some breathing space in its long struggle to remain independent, agreeing a ceasefire with Carl Icahn in return for giving up three board seats to the activist investor

IBM is on track to get nearly a third of its business from emerging markets in five years, according to a senior executive, cementing a historic shift that has already helped the US computing group to brush off economic uncertainty in the developed world

South Korean company warns its expects revenue to fall in the third quarter, in spite of revealing strong profits

Kaz Hirai, chief executive of Sony's PlayStation games console business, has set an ambitious target of reaching nearly 150m in sales for its slow-starting PlayStation 3 console

Facebook filed an intellectual property lawsuit against StudiVZ, a German company that it has accused of running a "knock-off" of the social networking website

VMware, the software maker, has moved to prevent a potential exodus of talent by repricing employee stock options that have lost much of their value following a steep drop in the company's share price

Yahoo won an important supporter in its fight against activist investor Carl Icahn as Bill Miller, Legg Mason's chief investment officer, said he expected to back the existing board at the company's annual meeting on August 1

The mobile phone group reported a sharp drop in profits to €8m as its focus on high-end handsets left it exposed to a European slowdown

Worries that an economic slowdown was starting to eat into profits at both Google and Microsoft hit shares of the tech industry arch-rivals late after each reported quarterly earnings that fell short of most analysts' estimates

Advanced Micro Devices replaced Hector Ruiz, its chief executive, as it reported its seventh successive -quarter of losses and fell further behind its larger rival Intel

In latest twist in a long-running antitrust probe, regulators allege the world's largest chipmaker used rebates to persuade a retailer to sell only Intel-based PCs

Fears about a slowdown in online advertising and e-commerce reverberated after ValueClick, which runs the largest independent online advertising network, pre-announced weak earnings and slashed forecasts for the rest of the year