Newsweek discusses how the global middle class is not as stable and liberal as western capitalist enthusiasts hoped they would be.

Stepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online.

The US House of Representatives Thursday approved a $15 billion bill aimed at [...]

Some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal the company struck to settle antitrust action, the European Union said Tuesday.

Prosecutors seeking to indict five Americans on terrorist charges submitted their case to a Pakistani judge Tuesday, accusing the men of waging war [...]

Russia joined America and France in open criticism of Iran’s nuclear program as China came under pressure not to block a move to tighten UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Taking a step to normalize lending after holding interest rates to extraordinary lows for more than a year to prop up the financial [...]

Facebook and Paypal may be entering into a strategic partnership, which will allow facebook users to buy facebook credits with their paypal account.

An “ongoing attempted coup d’état” was taking place Thursday in the Republic of Niger, according to the Niger Embassy in London, England. The African Union has now suspended Niger.

Investment banks will this year [...]

Amidst privacy concerns, Google says it will revamp its Buzz social networking interface.

A majority of Germans want debt-ridden Greece to be thrown out of the euro zone if necessary.

Mr. Brainwash and Mr. Banksy are elusive.

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone company by subscribers, offered to buy the African operations of the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain [...]

The number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. has dropped by nearly one million, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security. It is the sharpest decline in three decades.

Boredom kills: People who are bored often are more likely to die at an early age, according an article in the International Journal of [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has claimed that Iran is almost ‘nuclear ready’.

Only two days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the American Red Cross raised $7 million via text messaging from more than 700,000 wireless customers. Donations poured in from every wireless network, including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. Red [...]