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Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times.

Despite its disappointing stock market performance, Facebook has delivered strong financial results. Net income increased 7 percent to $219 million in the most recent quarter, compared with the previous year. Revenue was up 38 percent to $1.46 billion.

Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display that can compete with Apple.

In the latest display of Google’s technological sweeping ambition, the company is rolling out another wave of products and services that will test how much more people want computers to control their lives and enhance their perceptions of reality.

Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.

Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular.

Google’s sixth annual conference for software developers opened Wednesday with a chance for the company to showcase its latest services.

Nokia Corp. has unveiled its first Lumia smartphone with a metal cover, low-light camera features and new social network apps. But the new model failed to impress markets, sending the company’s stock down.

In a rare bit of cooperation, Microsoft’s Outlook.com is giving users of its free email service the option of logging into Google Chat to exchange instant messages and engage in audio or video conversations.

The country’s four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T’s "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer.