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Hanover - European IT security firms have flocked to the world's biggest high-tech fair with hopes of benefiting from the fallout from shock revelations of mass US and British spying.Exactly a year ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel vaunted her new, ultra-secure Smar...

Washington - News organisations get the most engaged readers by working on their own to build brand loyalty, not through referrals from social media or search engines, a study showed Monday.The Pew Research Center found that "direct visitors" who use the news outle...

Washington - News organisations get the most engaged readers by working on their own to build brand loyalty, not through referrals from social media or search engines, a study showed Monday.The Pew Research Center found that "direct visitors" who use the news outle...

Hanover - Britain and Germany will team up to work on developing the next super-fast mobile network, 5G, Prime Minister David Cameron told the opening of the world's biggest high-tech fair Sunday.Cameron said the initiative was one of three areas he wanted Brita...

Berlin - Tourism companies are turning to travel bloggers as a route into the vast global market of social network users, industry insiders say.At Berlin's ITB tourism fair this week, bloggers and tourism professionals were brought together at a "speed dating" ...

- The German IT and communications sector is set to return to growth in 2014 driven by smartphones and tablet computers but still trail a booming global market, an industry lobby said Sunday.On the eve of the world's biggest hi-tech fair, Germany's BITKO...

Washington - While some concepts of the Internet date back to the 1950s, the public-facing World Wide Web traces its history back 25 years.

San Francisco - Twenty-five years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.That idea from Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN lab in Switzerland, outlining a way to easily access files on...

New Delhi - Flipkart, India's answer to US online giant Amazon, said Saturday its sales would cross the milestone $1 billion-mark this year, ahead of schedule, in the country's exploding e-commerce market.Founded in 2007 by two ex-Amazon.com employees and universi...

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