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阿里终于在美国纽交所正式挂牌上市。与此同时，2014胡润百富榜揭晓，马云及其家族以人民币1500亿元的财富首次问鼎中国首富。

Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700)'s market value surpassed $100 billion within a decade of going public as Asia's biggest Internet company capitalizes on China's explosion in online gaming and messaging. Te

Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd said on Monday it bought a stake of 36.5 percent in the Sogou, the country's third-largest search engine, for $448 million plus other assets. The announcement came

Sohu.com Inc. ("Sohu", NASDAQ: SOHU), Sogou Inc. ("Sogou") and Tencent (TCTZF.PK) Holdings Limited ("Tencent", SEHK: 00700) jointly announced today the establishment of a strategic cooperation that wi

Tencent announced an agreement to take a minority stake in the internet search engine Sogou. Tencent will pay USD 448 million for preference shares giving it 36.5 percent of the capital and 20.6 perce

Who says Twitter is vacuous? Who says it's widely used by vainglorious people? If you ask me, The Big T is non of those two. Twitter, in truth, is extremely useful if you can absorb the temporary effe

So you've got a few online business ideas you'd like to execute. Or you may want to make money blogging. If you're an online entrepreneur or hoping to become one, you may want to read about some of t

Unless you're a freegan and have found a way to live entirely off the grid, you probably need some sort of steady income in order to survive. The traditional way to earn money, of course, is by havin

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn.While it's difficult domain to penetrate — hard numbers are few and

A New York man is suing Apple for allegedly lying about Siri's wonderfulness. He's certainly not the first self-declared victim to take Apple to courtMany iPhone 4S owners have occasional beefs with

People in China may be barred from accessing Facebook, but that hasn't stopped them from making software for the 845-million member social network.The partnerships with Chinese software developers al

Facebook's IPO, which is expected to see the company be valued at $100bn, has put it under more pressure to aggressively sell its' users data, according to leading digital agency chiefs.Despite money

The Stop Online Piracy Act is an American piece of legislation, and as a general rule, American legislation has only limited influence outside US borders. My fellow Europeans might, for example, marve

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.The departure, announced Tuesd

Apple is planning a “media event” in New York Later this month, according to All Things D. The event will likely be presented by Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services (and

It's almost impossible to believe that when a group of American academics and corporate engineers planted the seeds of the Internet back in the 60s and 70s, they had no particular ambitions in mind &n

Everyone wants to be their own boss. I believe they have thought of it at least once during their lifetime. So, would you like to be your own boss too? This is no longer a dream, but an achievable tar

If you fancy yourself a betting man, head over to Las Vegas and see if you can find anyone willing to wager which will happen first: the world will end, or Google+ will top 400 million members. Both a

Apparently, dear reader, some websites that a casual observer would assume are Apple sites are actually landing sites for hardcore porn. Apple's filed complaint with the World Intellectual Property O

The American government is establishing an underground Internet and mobile phone service to keep free speech alive and kicking worldwide.Sunday the New York Times claimed that the Obama administration

SAN FRANCISCO--Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took to the state of Web 2.0 Summit here tonight and, in a far-reaching conversation, talked bluntly about the 5-year-old company's goals."We have lofty ambiti

On September 15, 1997 the domain name for Google was registered. Fast forward 14 years and we are talking about one of the giants from the software industry that is not shy of getting into hardware,

Who is doing all the tweeting ... and how many people are really interested in what they have to say?In a rare moment of disclosure, the normally tight-lipped Twitter announced last week that it now

BitTorrent is no longer the dominant player when it comes to file-sharing on the Internet. The five largest English language websites dedicated to swapping files are all related to centralized file-

Here's a report that'll raise the hackles of some Motorola employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google employees are better fed at work, make more money and are smarter than their Moto

The internet is playing an important role in our life today. Many of us literally start and end a day with the internet. Through the past 15years internet have overruled all other media and grabbed

A few weeks in, the honeymoon period is over for Google+ and it seems like some people are already losing interest. Yes, the backlash has already begun. But is Google+ going to fail? In a word: No+.

You're spoiled for choice these days when it comes to choosing a Web browser—all of the big names are viable choices, and, if you don't like the big three there's always Safari and Opera, t

The number of Chinese Internet users hit 485 million at the end of June, with microblogging and group-buying posting the highest user growth rates, a Chinese government Internet statistical body sai

If you're curious about all things Google+, you're in luck. The project's technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session a