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David Karp: Tumblr whizzkid set for £164m windfall after sale to Yahoo
A high school dropout will make a massive £164million from selling his website to internet giant Yahoo. David Karp, 26, started Tumblr six years ago, but it is now being snapped up for £720million. The website hosts 110 million blogs and has celebrity us
How echo technique could help the blind: Visually impaired can locate items by listening to echoes - like...
Scientists have discovered blind and visually impaired people can locate objects by listening to echoes - just as bats and dolphins do.The research found those with impaired vision have the potential to use echolocation to find objects. Carried out by sc
So you want to be a spaceman? 12 days on the seabed, a week in a cave, lessons in Russian (and the...
If six months in orbit 230 miles from earth sounds like a challenge, take a look at the bizarre lengths astronaut Tim Peake has already gone to in his training.The countdown to blast-off has included a week in an underground cave and 12 days on the botto
Ant studies to aid design of search and rescue robots
A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search-and-rescue robots, according to US scientists. A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology found fire ants can use their antennae as "extra...
Twitter 'knocked off bike' cyclist 'lucky to be alive'
A cyclist says he is lucky to be alive after he was hit by a car whose driver is later believed to have tweeted about the crash. Toby Hockley was on the 100-mile Boudicca Sportive ride in Norfolk on Sunday when he was struck by a car and flung into a hed
Vodafone posts biggest fall in service revenue
It is the largest quarterly drop since the company started using the measurement in 2003. It also marked a further acceleration from the 2.6 percent fall in the third quarter and reflected the tough economic conditions in its core European markets and th
Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
Mayer faces plenty of challenges in her efforts to turn six-year-old Tumblr into a money-spinner, not least among them retaining users while devising new types of non-intrusive online ads outside of Yahoo's traditional area of expertise. And then there i
Apple to argue for tax reform, defend tax practices on Tuesday
In prepared testimony released by the company and submitted ahead of Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook's hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Apple denied it employed "tax gimmicks" like using Cayman...
Sprint receives SoftBank waiver to consider Dish offer
SoftBank, which agreed last October to pay $20.1 billion for a 70 percent stake in Sprint, said it was confident its bid would prevail and announced in a separate filing on Tuesday that it would issue 400 billion yen ($3.9 billion) in bonds in June, the
Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centers
Data centers, renting out technology resources such as computing power and storage, will be established in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. "These two locations will be geo-redundant, offering our customers the ability to back up their...
Facebook eyes ad market revolution
A year after its disappointing stock market flotation, Facebook is aiming to convince big brand-name consumer companies that advertisements on a social network are as important - and as effective - as those on television. Facebook's stock finished its fi
Britain's Cameron tells Google and others to play fair on tax
Cameron was speaking at a regular quarterly meeting of the government's business advisory group attended by Schmidt at which corporate taxation was discussed. "He said, on tax and transparency, that as part of having very low corporation tax he...
Dish eyes LightSquared's Spectrum for $2 billion - Bloomberg
LightSquared, which declared bankruptcy in May 2012, was bankrolled by one of the hedge fund industry's most powerful figures, Philip Falcone. Falcone's plans to introduce a new wireless network in the United States fell apart when the U.S. Federal Commu
Britain's Cameron tells Google and others to play fair on tax
Cameron was speaking at a regular quarterly meeting of the government's business advisory group attended by Schmidt at which corporate taxation was discussed. "He said, on tax and transparency, that as part of having very low corporation tax he...
Major Tim Peake's pride at becoming the UK's first true astronaut
He led Army platoons into war zones, flew daredevil missions for special forces and was a test pilot on Apache helicopter gunships. So when Major Tim Peake is launched into space as the first “real” British astronaut, the dangers won’t worry him at all.
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