Thompson said the company would be organised along three core divisions, effective 1 May.
The agreement also grants Microsoft non-exclusive use of 300 patents that are being retained by AOL.
"In the West, they would have slept in their office for a week together. Here at 5 o'clock in the evening they start getting phone calls. I am not saying this is right or wrong. That is the way this society is. India is not a country for innovation any time soon."
In a high-stakes patent dispute, the court heard arguments about whether a federal trial judge acted correctly in December when she ruled that Apple failed to provide enough evidence to support an injunction of Samsung's Galaxy pro duct line.
Apple sued Samsung in the United States last year, saying the South Korean company's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung then countersued Apple.
The Whale Alert app, available for free download, uses global positioning system and other technology to send the latest data about right whale detections, overlaid on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) digital charts, to the user's device
Social networking website Facebook today announced a facility for its users to access the site in eight Indian languages from mobile phones.
A faster and enhanced version of low-cost tablet PC, Aakash, would be launched on trial basis in May, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal said today.
Poor quality of rivets holding the Titanic's hull together may have come loose after colliding with an iceberg, sinking the ship a century ago, a study says.
For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface.
A US court stopped a counsel member from live tweeting a court case on Obama's healthcare law.
On the same day that Amazon started selling Harry Potter e-books in a landmark deal, buy buttons on the company's dominant Kindle e-book store disappeared for several hours.
The spacecraft is expected to begin falling at 3:13 a.m. Moscow time on 27 March
A Russian rocket carrying a US telecommunications satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan Sunday.
Rovio's games are topping sales charts on all key platforms and reports that the gaming company was shying away from the Windows Phone was seen as a major blow to Nokia's strategy to shift to use it in all its smartphones.
The first commercial round-trips to Mars will blast off within 10 years, says a rocket entrepreneur.
Scientists have warned their experiments are at risk from a shortage of Helium because the gas is being wasted on party balloons.
Zynga Inc is buying OMGPOP, maker of the popular game "Draw Something" for an undisclosed sum, as the company moves to expand its games lineup on mobile devices and Facebook.
The company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file sharing site Megaupload says somebody needs to pay the company's bill or it should be allowed to delete the data.
Hewlett-Packard Co is combining its printer and PC divisions as it tries to overcome dragging profits, growing competition and the lack of clear identity.
Pentagon cyber experts said that after releasing a new cyber strategy last year the Defense Department had been moving on several fronts to bolster defenses, secure critical networks and improve cyber warfare capabilities.
Microsoft says it's not coming out with a new Xbox gaming console anytime soon.
Sharp Corp wants to begin in March shipments of small to medium sized high definition liquid crystal displays of the type used in Apple Inc's latest iPad.
A group of prominent Chinese writers have demanded compensation from technology giant Apple Inc for allegedly selling unlicensed versions of their books in its online store.
A new app called Wallit combines augmented reality, a virtual view of the real world that can be extended with graphics and other content, with a social experience.
Noting that countering increasingly active internet surveillance and censorship efforts aimed at suppressing individuals' exercise of their human rights requires a diverse portfolio of tools and training, the State Department said.
New real-identity rules to be imposed on China's Weibo are likely to make the country's most popular microblogging platform more alluring to advertisers, as Sina Corp seeks to start generating revenue from its product.
Financially ailing Proview and Apple are sparring in courts in China and the US over the issue.