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Chris Dixon of Andressen Horowitz says bitcoin can be leading means of making payments on internet.

Marissa Mayer has fired Henrique de Castro, the man she hired a year ago to revamp the company's ad business.

Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg is being considered by the Microsoft board to replacing retiring boss Steve Ballmer.

Apple settles with FTC over in-app purchase complaint, rather than "take a long, distracting legal fight."

Head of Microsoft's Cloud division, Satya Nadella is firmly in the running to replace Ballmer as CEO.

Former Nokia CEO and Microsoft executive Stephen Elop will return to the software maker this year.

Profile of former Skype CEO Tony Bates, tipped to be in the running to become Microsoft CEO

Technology editor David Gilbert looks at the battle about to begin for China's smartphone market, as upstart Xiaomi looks to usurp Apple and Samsung.

Snapchat issues update and apology for data breach which saw millions of phone number published online.

Our guide to the iWatch smartwatch, Apple's answer to the Samsung Galaxy Gear.

Microsoft search to replace Steve Ballmer could be completed by February, as focus made on internal candidates.

Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 will arrive by April and feature iris scanner for increase security.

Facebook acquired India-based Little Eye Labs that provides mobile app optimisation tool.

Ford boss Alan Mulally has declared himself out of the running for Microsoft's new CEO.

Sony's CEO Kaz Hirai believes that every Sony product is a failure if it doesn't deliver a wow-factor for customers.

EE 4G customers pass two million milestone, doubling in the last four months.

HMRC set to receive £24m following review of corporation tax arrangements.

Intel planning to surprise industry with an array of futuristic innovations at CES 2014.

Mandiant became popular after it exposed Chinese hackers last year.

Ahead of CES 2014, Samsung has seen $18 billion wiped off its market value in a week as investors worry about slowing profit growth.

Having hacked the Skype Twitter account and blog, the Syrian Electronic Army posted email address and phone number of Ballmer online.

For the second year in a row, low-cost Google Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer were among the best-selling laptops on Amazon this Christmas.

In past year, internet giant has bought eight robotics companies. Here is our roll-call of Google's craziest robots.

Apple CEO Tim Cook letter to staff teases 'big plans' for the iPhone maker in 2014.

BlackBerry posts $5 billion operating loss for the third quarter, as Foxconn partnership is announced.

Former Microsoft manager and his trader friend charged with insider trading, earning the pair £240,000 over 18 months.

Amazon's cloud computing services have not been impacted at all by Snowden's revelations despite reports to the contrary.