For US. banks, mobile payments are a way to wean their customers off the use of cash and generate more revenue. Merchants pay banks a fee every time a shopper buys something with a credit or debit card and Google said it would not take a cut of those fees from the new pay-by-phone system.
Samsung Electronics has filed a counter claim in an Australian court, accusing Apple of infringing its wireless patents related to the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad products.
Ebay is looking to start an app developers platform that will allow them to make more money by selling directly to customers online.
Intel expects to kick off the first phase of the roll-out of Ultrabooks later this year with its second-generation Core processors, followed by third-generation 'Ivy League' processor-powered Ultrabooks next year.
It also dismissed speculation about a growing divide between Intel and its long-term partner Microsoft,
HP offered an agreed 2,550 pence per autonomy share on 18 August, which it said valued the enterprise search software company's fully diluted share capital at 7.09 billion pounds ($11.2 billion).
SAP AG has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a criminal probe into allegations that it downloaded millions of files from rival Oracle, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Amazon is in talks with book publishers about launching a media library service similar to Netflix for tablets and other digital books, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Bartz was abruptly fired from her job as CEO on Tuesday. She had said that she planned to remain on the Internet company's board of directors, a statement that conflicted with that of a company spokesman who said Bartz would have to give up her board seat.
Ma and Bartz had a difficult relationship exacerbated by Ma's desire to buy back Yahoo's stake in his company and Yahoo's unwillingness to sell.
LinkedIn has said that it is looking for a Brazil Chief Executive to help them start an office in the country.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the remains of a primitive ape-like creature which they believe could be the man's earliest ancestor that lived almost two million years ago.
Alibaba Cloud Computing, a unit of Alibaba Group, will release an English version of its mobile operating system via upgrade this month.
Microsoft says that its hotmail and Windows Live services are back on track, following a major outage that took many accounts offline.
Nikon Corp will enter the market for lightweight, interchangeable-lens digital cameras and release its first product with a mirrorless design later this year.