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Europe closes in on tax havens; Austria agrees to swap bank data

EU leaders shine spotlight on Amazon, Google over tax policy

UK opposition party leader says Google tax behavior "wrong"

Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row

Apple CEO makes no apology for company's tax strategy

The Irish loophole behind Apple's low tax bill

Sony to assess spin-off plan; cuts targets for cameras, smartphones

Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. e-books case

Video game maker Atari seeks court approval for sale of assets

Telefonica cuts handset prices to win back Spanish clients

National Photos

Spain

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

Visitors walk past advertising placard of FIFA13 during the Gamescom 2012 fair in Cologne

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A sells man demonstrates a computer game in a display area of Nvidia Corp. during the second day of the annual 2007 Computex Taipei

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

A PayPal card sits at a cashier station at a Home Depot store in Daly City

A Telecom Italia phone booth is seen in Rome

Handout of Andreessen, Maris and Doerr

File of attendant checking a computer during launch of Microsoft Windows 8 in Hong Kong

Obama delivers remarks on the budget alongside Jeff Zients in the Rose Garden of the White Hose in Washington

A girl holds up a banner while people take part in a rally to demand that Congress fix the broken immigration system at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey

A security guard patrols at Hong Hai headquarters in Tucheng

A man walks past an automatic teller outside a BNP Paribas bank in central Paris

Edwy Plenel, French journalist and Mediapart chief, speaks during an interview at the offices of French investigative news website "Mediapart" in Paris

Google homepage logos are seen on a wall at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

A man looks at Panasonic Corp

Google signage seen at the company

Robert Hormats, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, delivers a speech at the 6th U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing

An employee of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) works inside the company headquarters in Mumbai

Medallions for the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Space Command, Air Force Cyber Command and he Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center are seen in Colorado Springs

A Citi sign is seen at the Citigroup stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

New U.S. citizen waves a U.S. national flag in front of a display of flags of the more than 40 nations represented by the more than 90 immigrants becoming U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Boston College in Chestnut Hill

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

The exterior of Ericsson

HTC smartphones are displayed in a mobile phone shop in Taipei

To match feature HOUSING-MANHATTAN/

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

File photograph of Investor Carl Icahn speaking at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference at the New York Stock Exchange

Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation, speaks during 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

Shoppers look at Samsung smartphones in a shop in Seoul

John Doerr shows a flexible solar panel in Stanford

Samsung outdoor advertisment sits atop an office building in Seoul

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Google signage seen at the company

File photo of Samsung Electronics Co

A man talks on a telephone outside a branch of Nordic telecoms group Tele2 in St. Petersburg

To match Insight CTECH-US-HP-LANE/

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

A BlackBerry salesperson displays a BlackBerry Z10 during the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone in Mumbai

An Everything Everywhere (EE) mobile phone store sign is seen in London

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Facebook and Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

Google signage seen at the company

A visitor talks with a staff member at an Apple store in Beijing

BILLIONAIRE PAUL ALLEN TO BUILD 20 MILLION DOLLAR SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM.

Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange

The Capitol Records building is pictured in Hollywood

A visitor tries an iPhone at an Apple store in Beijing

Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp Barry Diller attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

A man uses an iPad with a Facebook app in this photo illustration in Sofia

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

An illustrative photo shows Blackberry smartphone

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A man walks past an MTS shop in St.Petersburg

A man looks at NEC Corp

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

A visitor tries an iPhone at an Apple store in Beijing

File photo of Mike Lazaridis of Research In Motion, speaking during BlackBerry

eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a hi-tech industry conference in Jerusalem

A woman talks on her mobile phone as she walks by Telekom Austria headquarters in Vienna

A GameStop store is pictured in Pasadena, California

Visitors look at devices at Accenture stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Panasonic

Low-cost handsets from Nokia on display at a Nokia store in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in Warsaw

People walk outside the Nasdaq Market site in New York

Rollen, the president and chief executive officer of Hexagon, poses by the London Eye in London

Johnson, senior VP of Corporate Strategy for Dell Inc, smiles during the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York

Co-founder and Chief Executive of Oracle Corporation, Ellison introduces the company

Handout of president and CEO of Wal-Mart Global eCommerce Ashe

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

A sign of the new iPhone 5 is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in Shanghai

Thalmic Labs

The exterior of Ericsson

A generic picture of a computer keyboard.

A woman uses a mobile phone in north London

A man looks around Sharp

A man looks at NEC Corp

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

Man walks past sign welcoming Facebook to the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Newly recruited employees attend a training session inside Tech Mahindra office building in Noida

ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Michael Dell Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc arrives for the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A new Blackberry Z10 smartphone is displayed at a store in New York

A woman looks in from a window panel of a Barnes and Noble store in New York

A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

An attendee tests the new HTC One during a launch event in New York

A customer holds up an Apple iPhone 5 as he poses for a photo during an exclusive sale by Belgian operator Mobistar in Brussels

CEO of e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt addresses people from IT field during a conference in Yangon

Researchers of Hauri, an IT security software company investigating computer viruses, talk at their lab in the company in Seoul

Google signage seen at the company

A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks at the Cable Show in Chicago

John Doerr shows a flexible solar panel in Stanford

Sen. Max Baucus, (D-MT) is questioned by media at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

Customers visit the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York

A satellite transmission dish is seen behind housing near BBC Television Centre at White City in London

File photograph of Oracle Corp headquarters Redwood City

A worker leaves a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen

Google signage seen at the company

Renesas Electronics Corp

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt attends a function on catalysing tech Start-ups in India by NASSCOM, in New Delhi

A computer is seen down after hacking at main office of broadcaster YTN in Seoul

A PayPal card sits at a cashier station at a Home Depot store in Daly City

The exterior of Ericsson

File photograph of Oracle Corp headquarters Redwood City

An illustrative photo shows Blackberry smartphone

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

A view shows the Alfa telecommunications building in Beirut

The Swedish flag flies outside Ericsson

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is shown in Sunnyvale

A woman uses a computer in an internet cafe in Shanghai

A man walks away from the St. Regis hotel reading information regarding investing in the upcoming IPO of Facebook in New York

A guest uses a Lytro light field camera on the red carpet at the world premiere of the film "Marvel

A Nokia smartphone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

ARM CEO East speaks during a Samsung Electronics keynote address at the CES in Las Vegas

Visitors are seen in front of Samsung stand during the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

Workers put up a banner advertisement for AT&T on the side of a hotel as they prepare for International CES show in Las Vegas

eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a hi-tech industry conference in Jerusalem

File photo of EA CEO John Riccitiello in Los Angeles

Police booking photo of Andrew Auernheimer

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

People walk past an ST-Ericsson stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Signs hang above the Panasonic booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

People walk through a shopping mall in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck

A man looks at Panasonic TV sets at an electronic shop in Tokyo

Shin, President and head of IT and Mobile Communication Division, introduces Samsung Electronics Co

Samsung Electronics Co

To match feature: INTERNET-SOCIALMEDIA/PRIVACY

U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew in the East Room of the White House in Washington

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gestures during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco

Fans take pictures of singer Perry with their mobile phones during an autograph-signing event as part of promotional activities for her new fragrance "Purr" in Mexico City

A man holds up Samsung Electronics Co

Surfer Demacedo heads to a surfing spot at Martin

The sign at the IBM facility near Boulder, Colarado

Eustace, senior vice-president of engineering and research at Google Inc., arrives at The Trevor Project

A woman holds BlackBerry Z10 smartphone featuring high security Secusite software, used for governmental communication, at the booth of Secusmart during preparations at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover

Olivier Piou, CEO of Gemalto, attends a Reuters Global Technology Summit in Paris

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

The signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank

A man looks at the screen of his iPhone as he walks on a busy street in downtown Shanghai

Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

People view the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

U.S. National Security Advisor Donilon shakes hands with China

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California

Obama speaks about the sequester in Washington

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during Apple Inc.

A PayPal card is shown as customers can now pay with the card at selected Home Depot stores such as the one in Daly City

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

EMC CEO Tucci speaks at a news briefing to release two reports addressing the impact of information technology on the environment

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

People walk past a Samsung stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A BlackBerry salesperson displays a BlackBerry Z10 during the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone in Mumbai

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

Woman walks past JP Morgan Chase

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

FBI Director Mueller, Director of National Intelligence Clapper and CIA Director Brennan testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

An illustration picture show sapplication icons are displayed on an Apple Ipad tablet held by a woman in Bordeaux

Actress Lisa Kudrow announces that the game Angry Birds has won Best Mobile Game award at the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

Renesas Electronics Corp

Part of the building of

Yandex founder and CEO Arkady Volozh celebrates Yandex listing on the Nasdaq exhange in New York

Yahoo! CEO Mayer speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

File of visitors walking past a sign on Sixth Street in Austin, Texas

U.S. National Security Advisor Donilon talks with China

A man walks past Suntech Power Holdings headquarters in Wuxi

A person uses the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

File photograph of Investor Carl Icahn speaking at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference at the New York Stock Exchange

A man watches television screens in a Ladbrokes bookmaker in London

Jonathan Lu, then Taobao Chief Executive, speaks at China

An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Facebook and Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the Website Facebook on an Ipad, in Bordeaux

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

File photo of the Reserve Bank of Australia building in Sydney

To match Feature IRAN-INTERNET/

Howard Stringer, CEO and president of Sony Corporation, speaks at a function to launch the Sony Media Technology Centre on the outskirts of Mumbai

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

Philip Schiller, Apple

Handout photo of Electronic Arts

The Neiman Marcus sign outside a store in Golden, Colorado

A sign is pictured outside Nortel

Sandberg CEO Facebook attends the annual meeting of WEF in Davos

A BlackBerry salesperson displays a BlackBerry Z10 during the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone in Mumbai

A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office in New York

Chairman and CEO of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood

A man looks around Sharp

Google signage seen at the company

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Hon Hai Precision Industry chairman and founder Gou waves to the media as he gets on an elevator after a news conference in Tokyo

Providence Equity Partners CEO and founder Jonathan Nelson speaks at The Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

New televisions are displayed at the Samsung booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A sign is pictured outside Nortel

To match feature PRIVACY-CHINA

Nokia

A Blackberry Z10 is displayed at a store in Toronto

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

Satellite transmission dishes are seen behind housing near BBC Television Centre at White City in London

Visitors are seen in front of Samsung stand during the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

A view of a Wal-Mart.com store at the Topanga Plaza in Canoga Park

Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

Kim Dotcom attends an interview with Reuters in Auckland

A giant "like" icon made popular by Facebook is seen at the company

File photograph of Investor Carl Icahn speaking at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference at the New York Stock Exchange

Google signage seen at the company

A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Cubber, is seen at Materialise in Leuven

European Union Competition Commissioner Almunia holds a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels

A passer-by stands in front of the News Corporation building in New York

A woman walks past the Sharp Corp

Advertisements for Sharp are seen at a train station in Tokyo

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves at the end of Apple Inc.

Google signage seen at the company

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

Google Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist Cerf looks on during a news conference in Sofia

John Doerr shows a flexible solar panel in Stanford

An application vendor displays his wares on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

A view of the Hewlett Packard headquarters in Palo Alto

People sit next a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

Google signage seen at the company

People take photos in Times Square in New York

A painting is pictured at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

Surfboards lean against a wall at the Google office in Santa Monica

CRTC Chairman Blais speaks during a news conference in Gatineau

Alexander Provotorov, chief executive of Rostelecom, poses at his office in Moscow

Virtual celebrity Lara Croft speaks to participants attending the 8th annual Electronic Entertainmen..

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A generic picture of a computer keyboard.

A man riding an escalator passes an advertisement of Sony Corp. at an electronic store in Tokyo

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

A guard helps a student cross an intersection after schools closed early ahead of bad weather in Pelham, New York

A Yahoo! signs sits out front of their headquarters in Sunnyvale

U.S. Representative Mike Rogers talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Attacking team members work to hack into a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

The new Kindle Fire HD 7" is on display at Amazon

A Facebook icon is shown on a Samsung Galaxy III mobile phone in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

Kim Dotcom speaks during an interview with Reuters in Auckland

Mark Bertolini, Chairman and CEO of Aetna, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York

The entrance to the Time Warner Center is seen at Columbus Circle in New York

Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason drinks during a break of the first day of the Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley

A worker prepares the Cancer Research UK Garden ahead of the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show 2011 on Tuesday in London

Attendees of the GiGse online gaming convention make phone calls between presenters at the Westin hotel in San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gestures as he speaks during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gestures as he speaks during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco

People sit next a Qualcomm stand at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

City workers make phone calls outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square in the City of London

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

An employee arranges bottles of Coca-Cola at a store in Alexandria

File of a driver delivering two packages from Amazon.com in Boston, Massachusetts

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

Part of the building of

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Westergren, founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora internet radio, watch as their company begins trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Pinterest

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, arrives at the premiere of "The Guilt Trip" in Los Angeles

Workers rest sitting next to Telefonica

Visitors look at devices at ZTE booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

Qtel Group CEO Nasser Marafih gestures during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Attacking team members work to hack into a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

A visitor looks at the new Sony Xperia Z phone and tablet through a glass window during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A view shows the SK Telecom booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Bill Gates in a still from a new video released online

Cablevision CEO James Dolan is seen at a news conference in New Yor, November 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Segar

General view of Microsoft Corporation new headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris

Google signage seen at the company

Blackberry Z10 devices are displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

A Yahoo! signs sits out front of their headquarters in Sunnyvale

Iranian soldiers stand guard on an anti-aircraft machine gun inside Natanz uranium enrichment facility

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

The new Sony Xperia Z is pictured during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

Vodafone

A view of the Hewlett Packard headquarters in Palo Alto

People exercise at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

Flag hangs on the wall of the JP Morgan company stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

Blackberry Z10 devices are displayed at a Rogers store in Toronto

People walk at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul

A salesperson unpacks an Apple iPad Mini to test it for a customer in the Apple specialty section of a Croma retail store in Mumbai

Packages of 30 watt light bulbs of lamp manufacturer Osram are pictured in a shop in Germering

A general view of

Part of the building of

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

A Dish Hopper DVR system with Sling is displayed during a Dish news conference at the CES in Las Vegas

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

Casino chips are seen on a gaming table inside a casino on the opening day of Sheraton Macao hotel at Sands Cotai Central in Macau

An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

A sign hangs in the Sharp booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Sehat Sutardja, Chairman and CEO of Marvell Technology Group, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York

An Amazon Kindle, a Bookeen Cybook Odyssey, and a Sony Reader are pictured at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge

Workers walk out at the gate of a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at its unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Andrew House speaks during the unveiling of the PlayStation 4 launch event in New York

File photo of U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank speaking at a news conference during the 23rd session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade

A woman passes by an office of Russian telecoms firm Rostelecom in Moscow

Co-founder of Yahoo Yang attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley

File of a driver delivering two packages from Amazon.com in Boston, Massachusetts

The logos of Sony Corp. are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Guests use a sample phone at the launch of the HTC One smartphone in London

Google signage seen at the company

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates listens during a news conference in Texcoco

A Chinese People

An employee carries a wafer box in a clean room of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon in Regensburg

Employees work on LCD panels in the new AU Optronics plant in Trencin

An employee serves a guest at the reception counter inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Burger King’s Twitter account shows hacking activity before the account was suspended by Twitter in this screen grab taken

A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

A woman walks past a poster of Reliance Industries installed outside the venue of the company

Sony

Showgoers look at a display of 55-inch OLED televisions in the LG Electronics booth during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

A man uses an iPad with a Facebook app in this photo illustration in Sofia

A passer-by stands in front of the News Corporation building in New York

To match Special Report USA-HEALTHCARE/WELLNESS

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

A technician configures a "Pick and Place" electronics manufacturing machine

Security guards and staff stand at the entrance of an Apple store during the release of iPhone 5 in Beijing

Founder and chairman of Dell computers Michael Dell passes a screen projection before speaking at a news conference in Sydney

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

To match Interview G20/RIM

A man poses with an iPhone during Earth Hour in the center of Brasilia

Sign shown at headquarters for eBay in San Jose

A photo illustration shows a picture of a flower taken with the photo-sharing application Instagram on the screen of an Android mobile phone in Los Angeles

A woman looks in from a window panel of a Barnes and Noble store in New York

A man poses with an iPhone during Earth Hour in the center of Brasilia

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Director of Europol Rob Wainwright speaks next to Spain

The new Macbook Pro is pictured during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

U.S. President Barack Obama walks through the colonnade of the White House in Washington

Founder and chairman of Dell computers Michael Dell passes a screen projection before speaking at a news conference in Sydney

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tpolia poses for a portrait at the company

Apple CEO Cook speaks in the demonstration room after the Apple event introducing the new iPad in San Francisco

A Nokia smartphone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

Nokia smartphones are seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

U.S. President Obama speaks during the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Virginia

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

A person uses the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

A worker selects roses for export before Valentine

(L-R) Easy Denim paired with a Graphic Knit Top and Reversible Overcoat accented with Bold Black Diamond Jewelry by Kelly Wearstler, Opulent Green Blue Textured Gown by Rachel Roy, and Silk and Hand Beaded Kaftan by Radhika Perera-Hernandez for Lois Londo

Employees work at the headquarters of Box.net, an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies, in Los Altos

An iPhone 5 is displayed in an Apple store in central Sydney shortly after going on sale to the public

A table of the iPod nano is seen at the Apple Store during Black Friday in San Francisco

File photo of an employee holding Apple

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Google Chairman Schmidt smiles during a rehearsal of his MacTaggart lecture speech for the Edinburgh International Television Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland

Google signage seen at the company

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

Google signage seen at the company

Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Google signage seen at the company

A view shows the Federal Reserve building in Washington

News of the Facebook IPO is seen on the Times Square news scroller across from the Nasdaq Market site in New York

A sign of the new iPhone 5 is seen at the entrance of an Apple Store in Shanghai

Blackberry CEO Heins attends a launch event for the new Blackberry Z10 device at a Rogers store in Toronto

File photograph of Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell displaying a Dell tablet computer in San Francisco

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

A photo illustration shows a graphic depicting a Chinese national flag flying atop of the disputed islands, being seen on the front page of Chinese search engine website Baidu, on a computer screen in Beijing

The new Surface tablet computer by Microsoft is displayed at its unveiling in Los Angeles

A new Blackberry Z10 is displayed at a branch of UK retailer Phones 4U in central London

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

Coders work in the Mojang company office in Stockholm

A coder plays a pinball machine game during a break in the Mojang company office in Stockholm

A person talks on a mobile phone in front of a HTC advertisement board in Taipei

File picture shows RIM CEO Heins silhouetted during the BlackBerry World event in Orlando

A Bank of America sign is seen outside of a branch in Greenville

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Google signage seen at the company

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Oracle signage at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event in San Francisco

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee arrives at Gimpo airport in Seoul after he visited several European countries and Japan

A visitor walks past Sony

The main body section of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the iPhone 4S at Apple headquarters in Cupertino

Ben Stephens, a Blackberry sales manager demonstrates a new Blackberry Z10 to prospective customer Shevek at a branch of phones 4U in central London

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

CEO of Harman International Industries Paliwal poses during Reuters interview during opening day of IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

A worker packs boxes at Amazon

A customer enters the Asiacell company headquarters in Baghdad

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

Man makes a call on a mobile phone in Sierra Leone

Employees of Satyam Computer Services Ltd enter their head office in Hyderabad

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

An attendee reaches out to grab a newly launched RIM Blackberry 10 device in New York

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A man looks at a Huawei mobile phone as he shops at an electronic market in Shanghai

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

RIM President and CEO Heins introduces new RIM Blackberry 10 devices during their launch in New York

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

File of a box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

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Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

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Customers wait in line outside the Apple store on 5th Avenue, for Friday

Visitors walk past a YouTube stand during MIDEM in Cannes

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center in Arlington Virginia

Customers visit the Apple store on 5th Avenue in New York

A puzzle page from the no. 59 issue of Cool Kidz magazine is seen in this photo illustration shot in London

Nokia Lumia smartphones are pictured in a shop in Warsaw

Research In Motion CEO Heins displays features of Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

Commuters use their smartphones in a train in Singapore

Panasonic chief Tsuga introduces the company

The Justice Department building is seen in Washington

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks to a reporter as he and his wife Janet wait in line overnight with customers to purchase the new iPad at the Apple Store in Century City Westfield Shopping Mall

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Models hold a Samsung

Dell Inc. founder and chief executive Dell smiles during a business conference in New Delhi

Sony

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

The U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Napolitano attends a ceremony in Canberra

File photo of Microsoft CEO Ballmer speaking in front of Microsoft products at the Qualcomm pre-show keynote at the CES in Las Vegas

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg listens to a question after introducing a new feature called "Graph Search" during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

The new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device is pictured during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin

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Nokia smartphones are seen in this photo illustration taken in Bucharest

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

Logitech president Darrell poses before Reuters interview during opening day of IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Nokia Lumia smartphones are pictured in a shop in Warsaw

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The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

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A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

A man walks by a video display at the Motorola booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

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A BlackBerry device is shown in front of products displayed in a glass cabinet at the Research in Motion offices in Waterloo

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs holds new iPhone in San Francisco

The Apple retail store is shown in Palo Alto

A ship lays fiber optic cable which will connect Venezuela and Cuba in a beach in La Guaira

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

Monitors running Windows are pictured at the press center of the annual news conference of Bayer in Leverkusen

Visitors look at motherboards being displayed at the AMD booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer displays Windows Phone 8 devices at the Qualcomm pre-show keynote at the CES in Las Vegas

A man stands behind Sony Corp

Research In Motion CEO Heins gestures as he delivers his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

Workers use their mobile phone in a vehicle on their way home in Yangon

An Apple iPhone 5 phone is displayed in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

Kim Dotcom speaks during an interview with Reuters in Auckland

Showgoers visit the Intel booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

A Samsung Galaxy Note II phone-cum-tablet is displayed during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

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A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

Google signage seen at the company

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A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

People walk outside the Nasdaq Market site in New York

The data center of Dutch telecoms group KPN is seen in Haarlem

Nokia Lumia smartphones are pictured in a shop in Warsaw

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File photograph of eBay headquarters in San Jose California

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg listens to a question after introducing a new feature called "Graph Search" during a media event at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park

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Aaron Swartz poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg introduces a new feature called "Graph Search" during a media event at the company

Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and his wife Nicole Levinsohn attend

French Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin , arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris

Chairman and Chief Executive of Alibaba Group Jack Ma delivers a speech at the 8th Netrepreneur Summit in Hangzhou

Oracle signage at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event in San Francisco

A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

Former Nortel CFO Beatty leaves the courthouse with his lawyer Lafontaine in Toronto

Logos of TCS are displayed at the venue of the annual general meeting of the software services provider in Mumbai

File picture shows a customer holding up an Apple iPhone 5 for the photographer during an exclusive sale by Belgian operator Mobistar in Brussels

Attendant works checks a computer during launch of Microsoft Windows 8 in Hong Kong

An Apple iPhone 5 is displayed in an Apple store in Rome

Aaron Swartz poses in a Borderland Books in San Francisco

HTC CEO Chou holds one of his devices sporting a new Myanmar font ahead of Monday

Pocket Gems associate product manger Banga sits for a portrait in San Francisco

Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

Biden convenes a meeting with representatives from the video game industry, in a dialogue about gun violence, in his office in Washington

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Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

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Guests are silhouetted at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A Sirius Satellite Radio is shown in Washington

A building is reflected in the glass of a Best Buy store in New York

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File photo of a view of the General Motors headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit

Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer displays a Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 during an event in San Francisco

Lenovo CEO Yang stands after a news conference in Sao Paulo

Former New Mexico Governor Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Schmidt visit the Korean Computer Center in Pyongyang

Stephen Woo, president of Device Solutions Business for Samsung Electronics, talks about the new Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor during a keynote address at the CES in Las Vegas

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A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Workers prepare the Panasonic booth for the International CES show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas

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A Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv2 laptop with an AMD Yukon platform at CES in Las Vegas

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New televisions are displayed at the Samsung booth on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Showgoers look at a display of 55-inch OLED televisions in the LG Electronics booth during the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Guests are silhouetted at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

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New York Senator Charles Schumer holds aloft his tablet at an announcement of neighborhood WiFi in New York

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Employee at the new CityTarget store sits in a store window overlooking downtown Chicago, as they prepare for the opening

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Handout image released by iFixit.com shows the Qualcomm MDM9615M chip on a board of a new iPhone 5 in Melbourne

New Sony Bravia 4K Ultra HD televisions are displayed after being unveiled during a Sony news conference at the CES in Las Vegas

Kirk Skaugen, vice president of PC client group for Intel, speaks at an Intel news conference during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

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People walk at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul

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A person talks on a mobile phone in front of a HTC advertisement board in Taipei

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Panasonic Toughpad and handheld Toughbook model are displayed at the company

CEO of German software group SAP Snabe attends a news conference in Frankfurt

Dave Mills and Richard Halfpenny prepare an Audi booth in the automotive electronics area of the International CES show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas

Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, participates in "The Digital Chiefs: A Special Conversation on the Future of new Media in the Digital Age" panel discussion in Los Angeles

People walk past a Sprint store in New York

The headquarters of Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn

A general view shows workers at a cafeteria inside a building at the Infosys campus at the Electronic City area in Bangalore

People walk at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul

A general view of one of Qualcomm

File photo of Google Inc

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The logos of "Orange" and "3" are pictured outside a telecommunications store in Vienna

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The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

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The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

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Apple

Models pose next to LG Electronics

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

File photo of sales assistant looking at her mobile phone behind a counter at a Huawei booth in Wuhan

Blake Krikorian, of id8 Group Holdings, arrives at the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Mike Lynch, Founder and Chairman of Autonomy Corporation, poses for photographers at an awards ceremony in central London

ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks to the audience during an Apple event in San Jose

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

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Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

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Revellers usher in the new year at midnight during New Year

Amazon CEO Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

A photo illustration shows a picture of a flower taken with the photo-sharing application Instagram on the screen of an Android mobile phone in Los Angeles

The letters Telekom Austria are placed in front of the headquarters of Telekom Austria Group in Vienna

Telephone boxes are seen in central London

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

A woman walks past a Nokia advertisement board at a home appliances store in Shenyang

Panasonic Corp logos are seen at an electronics store in Tokyo

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Pope Benedict XVI looks on through the incense smoke as he leads a Vespers mass in Saint Peter

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Designated new finance chief Hoettges and Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG pose before the annual news conference in Bonn

Norway

Shovels are seen at a ground breaking ceremony for Foxconn

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

Apple

The exterior of Ericsson

Two women look at a mobile phone on Oxford Street in London

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

Kevin Systrom, Chief Executive of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app now owned by Facebook speaks during an interview with Reuters at the LeWeb technology conference in Aubervilliers

Jean-Bernard Levy, Chief Executive of Media and Telecommunication group Vivendi, speaks during the company

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

The Sberbank name is seen on a sign in a street in Russia

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev at Gorki residence outside Moscow

Penguin books are seen in a used bookshop in central London

Au Optronics Chief Executive Chen and Chief Finance Officer Yang speak during an investors conference in Taipei

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Oracle signage at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 event in San Francisco

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

People talk on their cell phones as passers-by walk past a Sprint store in New York

Nielsen CEO, Calhoun, and company officials ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of their IPO

People pass by the Motorola booth during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

File illustration photo shows an Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S, taken in Berlin

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

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The Nordstrom store at a mall in a Denver suburb

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A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

An employee cleans an advertisement plate at an Apple dealership on eve of iPhone 5

Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom, speaks during a Q&A session at LeWeb 2012 in London

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach

Computer software pioneer McAfee speaks with reporters outside his hotel in Miami Beach

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

A security guard stands next to an Apple retail store during the release of the iPhone 5 in Shanghai

A jogger runs past a Softbank shop in Tokyo

Apple employees hang an iPhone 5 sign at one of the company

Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Philip Schiller displays a new model of the iMac desktop computer during an Apple event in San Jose

Coffee cups with Google logos are seen at the new Google office in Toronto

Matthew Prince, chief executive at internet start-up company called CloudFlare, poses in his office in San Francisco

Customers rent DVD movies from a redbox video kiosk in Burbank, California

Brian McClendon, Vice President of Engineering for Google Maps, gives a behind-the-scenes look at how Google Maps are built and kept up-to-date at the Google offices in San Francisco

A woman uses her phone as she walks past a Sprint store in New York

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reacts as she arrives to address delegates during the third session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa

An Amazon Kindle displays a section of the Chinese edition of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" at the e-Book corner of the Hong Kong Book Fair

Japanese gaming firm DeNA Co

File photograph of a customer being helped by an Apple employee while looking over the iPad mini after the device went on sale in Palo Alto California

Occupy Wall Street protester Harris sits in courtroom before hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York

File of Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, speaks at the Iab Mixx Conference and Expo in New York

Combination picture shows Pope Benedict XVI posting his first tweet using iPad tablet after his Wednesday general audience at Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI posts his first tweet using a tablet after his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI

Huawei mobile phones are displayed in one of its offices in Shenzhen

A man walks past an advertisement board of Panasonic outside an electronic shop in Tokyo

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Digital Sky Technologies CEO Yuri Milner attends the eG8 forum in Paris

Sales staff demonstrate the Microsoft Surface during the opening of Microsoft

Jamaica

Handout photo of stretchable material containing squared stiff islands for the protection of brittle electronic devices

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

A woman checks her mobile phone as she walks past an Intel Core Duo advertisement outside a computer shop in Beijing

A general view of Lynas factory is seen in Gebeng

A consumer holds her credit cards in Washington

An iPhone5 is displayed at an Apple Store in San Francisco

File photo of a man watching Sharp

Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Sao Paulo

Daniel Ek, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

View of corporate sign outside the Honeywell International Automation and Control Solutions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley

Renesas Electronics Corp

Customers talk to a salesperson about a new laptop at a Lenovo shop in Shanghai

A man looks at Panasonic TV sets at an electronic shop in Tokyo

A woman passes by an office of Russian telecoms firm Rostelecom in Moscow

File photo of Lei Jun, founder and CEO of China

Foxconn worker Zhang is given a doll to play with inside a Shenzhen hospital

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh listens to Apple attorney Michael Jacobs as Apple lead counsel Harold McElhinney looks on during court proceedings in San Jose

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

A BlackBerry device is shown in front of products displayed in a glass cabinet at the Research in Motion offices in Waterloo

U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee uses a computer in a migrant shelter, where he is detained in Guatemala City

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, holds an Intel smartphone reference design as he gives a keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A BlackBerry device is shown in front of products displayed in a glass cabinet at the Research in Motion offices in Waterloo

Security staff watch over a crowd gathered for the opening of a new Apple store in Beijing

Samsung

New HTC smartphones, HTC One X+ and HTC One S Special Edition, are presented during a news conference for the launch of the products in Taipei

U.S. anti-virus software guru John McAfee sits next to an INTERPOL agent after his detention in Guatemala City

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

Megaupload founder Dotcom talks to members of the media outside the New Zealand Court of Appeals in Wellington

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom, speaks during a Q&A session at LeWeb 2012 in London

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

EU Competition Commissioner Almunia gestures during a news conference in Brussels

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

Jay Y. Lee, son of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee and the company

John Mcafee, U.S. anti-virus software guru, addresses a news conference outside the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City

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Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

A file photo of Pope Benedict XVI using an iPad device at the Vatican

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File photo of exterior of Ericsson

Two attendees ride an escalator during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco

A dog sits outside of the home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee in San Pedro

Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

A gardener plants seedlings at the entrance of Start-up Village in Kinfra High Tech Park in Kochi

Pope Benedict XVI arrives to lead a Vespers mass in Saint Peter

U.S. television celebrity Kim Kardashian performs during a promotional visit to a newly built shopping mall in Riffa, south of Manama

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada attends the opening ceremony of his dining complex in Hong Kong

An employee of Samsung Electronics walks past the company main office in Seoul

Customers walk out of a store selling and advertising Apple products, including both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, in central Beijing

A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

Traffic flies by the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Sony

A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

File picture of a man taking a photo of a Samsung Galaxy Camera in Berlin

Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote speech at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks about Microsoft

Employee holds up a Samsung Electronics

Sony

A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York

Mike Lynch, Founder and Chairman of Autonomy Corporation, poses for photographers at an awards ceremony in central London

Socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian waves to the media as she arrives to attend an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Cosmopolitan magazine at a hotel in Mexico City

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Orascom Telecom chairman Naguib Sawiris speaks during a conference in Beirut

Dennis Lockhart, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, takes part in a panel discussion titled "Twist and Shout: The Limits of U.S. Monetary Policy" at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California

An Apple iPhone 5 phone is displayed in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

A Telecom Italia antenna booster is seen in northern Rome

Samsung

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A UPS delivery man unloads boxes from a truck in New York

The main headquarters of the FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is seen in Washington

File picture shows the Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp

File photo of Apple

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

A worker removes the debris of a home destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Union Beach

File photo of Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console is seen on display at an electronics shop in Tokyo

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Handout of Andrew Auernheimer in this police booking photograph

Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console units are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

A customer is helped by an Apple employee while looking over the iPad mini after the device went on sale in Palo Alto

A BlackBerry device is shown in front of products displayed in a glass cabinet at the Research in Motion offices in Waterloo

HTC CEO Chou speaks during the launch event for new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system HTC phones in New York

A customer looks over the iPad mini after the device went on sale at Apple

Yahoo! CEO Mayer listens during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

File photo of Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, holding an ultrabook as he gives a keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A Cisco office sign is pictured in San Diego, California

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

A shop attendant poses with replicas of HTC, Samsung and Apple

A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

Selina Lo, President and CEO of of Ruckus Wireless, applauds as her company

A man rides his buggy in the main square in San Pedro

Steven Sinofsky speaks at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Research in Motion President and CEO Heins discusses the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10 in Waterloo

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Photo illustration of TomTom navigation device in Amsterdam

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks about Microsoft

A man looks at Panasonic Corp

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

A Texas Instruments employee in an undated photo courtesy of the company.

Research in Motion President and CEO Heins discusses the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10 in Waterloo

Lenovo

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

File picture of Borussia Dortmund

A man walks with an umbrella at the compound of the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A man stands behind Sony Corp

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a Motorola phone launch event in New York

A Cisco office is pictured in San Diego, California

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer displays a Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 during an event in San Francisco

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

File of Steven Sinofsky speaking at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Buildings damaged by Hurricane Sandy are seen in Monmouth Beach

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is silhouetted against a video screen during his presentation of the new Surface in Los Angeles

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is shown in Waterloo

A new HTC Android-based smartphone Sensation is displayed during a news conference for the launch of the product in Taipei

Director of the State Intellectual Property Office of China Tian answers a question during a news conference in Beijing

Chen Deming speaks during a news conference after a bilateral meeting with Sergio Diaz Granado in Bogota

File photo of a pedestrian reflected in the window of a Telus store while using a mobile phone in Ottawa

Sony Corp

Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange

Twitter

File photo of Google Venture

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Samsung Electronics

A Target employee returns carts to the store in Falls Church

A LePhone is on display during a news conference in Hong Kong

Research In Motion CEO Heins displays features of Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

Panasonic Corp

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

The exterior of Ericsson

People take pictures as U.S. President Obama speaks after winning the U.S. presidential election in Chicago

The headquarters of Morgan Stanley is pictured in New York

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer displays a Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 during an event in San Francisco

Amazon CEO Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon

A customer looks over the iPad mini after the device went on sale at Apple

Scene from new version of Halo video game "Halo 4" is previewed at Microsoft XBox news briefing during the E3 game expo in Los Angeles

A family leaves the Staples store in Broomfield

A woman walks past a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

Actor Shatner, who plays Captain James T. Kirk in the original version of Star Trek, arrives at the Destination Star Trek London event in London

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Ballmer speaks during an event to launch Microsoft

European Union flags fly in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels

Facebook COO Sandberg laughs at the Iab Mixx Conference and Expo in New York

Twitter

Attendees gather at the Android developer sandbox during the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco

A man walks past a tree, which has fallen over during Hurricane Sandy, in Falls Church

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Apple employees share high-fives with customers who has been waiting in line to purchase the new iPad minis at Apple Store Ginza in Tokyo

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

Sony Corp

Fans sit at the ready in the lobby of the Verizon building in lower Manhattan in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York

Inside view of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Visitors look over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during the launch of Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A dispensing chemist prepares drugs for a chemotherapy treatment in a sterile room at Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Centre in Nice

Sharp Corp

A man stands behind Sony Corp

Megaupload founder Dotcom talks to members of the media outside the New Zealand Court of Appeals in Wellington

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during Apple Inc.

File photo of a man smoking while using a computer at an Internet cafe in Taiyuan

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Inside view of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing

Pedestrians walk past a Softbank Corp branch in Tokyo

People congregate in front of a building that still has wireless internet access in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Iger and filmmaker and Chairman of the Board of Lucasfilm Ltd. Lucas sign documents at the Walt Disney Co. in Burbank

Electronic Arts

A woman walks into an Acer store located in the Guanghua Market area in Taipei

A man walks through floodwaters in the Rockaways section of New York

Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc poses with his with his KBE award after an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London

A Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 is displayed during an event in San Francisco

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Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc, speaks about iPhone5 apps during Apple Inc.

South Carolina Governor Haley addresses the second session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa

Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer displays a Nokia Lumia 920 featuring Windows Phone 8 during an event in San Francisco

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

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An Amazon Kindle, a Bookeen Cybook Odyssey, and a Sony Reader are pictured at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Microsoft tablet PC Surface is shown at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A Citi sign is seen at the Citigroup stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Facebook website pages opened in an internet browser are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Ericsson CEO Vestberg speaks during a news conference in Stockholm

A sign advertising the Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd is hung with the U.S. and Chinese flags outside of the New York Stock Exchange

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People walk at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Olympus Corp and Panasonic Corp logos at electronics store in Tokyo

A Yahoo! billboard is seen in New York

A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer holds a tablet before the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrives for the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York

A bird flies above the corporate headquarters of Zynga Inc, the social network game development company

A sales assistant looks at her mobile phone as she waits for customers behind a counter at a Huawei booth in Wuhan

A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

A man leaves a store selling Samsung Galaxy smartphones in Seoul

Attendees gather at the Android developer sandbox during the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco

File photo ogf the new Surface tablet computer by Microsoft at its unveiling in Los Angeles

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A visitor looks over the new iPad mini at an Apple event in San Jose

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

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An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

An employee works at a store of LG Electronics in Seoul

Lord, chairman of the Australian division of the Chinese telecom equipment firm Huawei, addresses the National Press Club in Canberra

A Barnes and Noble book store is shown here in Encinitas May 20, 2008

File photo of a Microsoft representative holding a new Surface tablet computer in Los Angeles

The new iPad mini is projected on a screen during an Apple event in San Jose

The new iPad mini during is projected on a screen at an Apple event in San Jose

A Netflix disk envelope is displayed in Encinitas

Amazon CEO Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon

The new iPad mini is projected on a screen during an Apple event in San Jose

An outdoor billboard advertising Samsung Electronics is seen in Seoul

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the new Kindle Fire at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

A Yahoo! billboard is seen in New York

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Yahoo! CEO Mayer speaks on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

Facebook Vice President and Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Joanna Shields, speaks during a news conference for the opening of Facebook offices in Dubai

Robert Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, Inc., poses for a portrait during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles

Peter Thiel, entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, holds a news conference in Washington

Customers use their iPhones while waiting in line outside the Apple store on 5th Avenue

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels

Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

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Ally Financial sign is seen on a building in Charlotte, North Carolina

Visitors look at motherboards being displayed at the AMD booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Neo-Nazis walk with black flags through the town of Remagen

Mannequins decorated with stuffed toys stand at Fast Retailing

An employee of a store holds up copies of a Newsweek magazine bearing a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the photographer at the main train station in Berlin

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A battery of a Nokia mobile phone is pictured inside a mobile phone repair service store in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

Customers gather outside an Apple store before the release of iPhone 5 in Munich

File photo of a Google employee posing with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

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File photo shows a cleaner wiping the glass door of a Huawei office in Wuhan

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

A building is reflected in the glass of a Best Buy store in New York

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A man talks on his cell phone outside Telefonica headquarters in Madrid

People visit Panasonic Corp

Customers try iPad tablets on display at a new Apple store during its official oppening in Strasbourg

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at its unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles

File photogrpah shows computer expert McKinnon arriving at the High Court to challenge his extradition to the United States, in London

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A woman walks past a Sprint store in New York

People visit Panasonic Corp

Henrique De Castro, Vice President Global Media and Platforms of Google, delivers a speech during a session at the Cannes Lions 2010 International Advertising Festival in Cannes

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Man speaks on a mobile phone as he walks past a MTN shop at a shopping mall south of Johannesburg

ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing

Mehdi introduces XBox Music at Microsoft XBox news briefing during the E3 game expo in Los Angeles

Journalists test out the new Kindle Fire HD 7" during Amazon

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

The Windows 8 operating system is displayed at the Microsoft booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

A Google homepage is displayed on a Motorola Droid phone in Washington

Traders gather for the first trades of Workday Inc. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

A man looks at his iPad while sitting in a cafe in central Beijing

U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta addresses a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks at the company

Amazon CEO Bezos holds up the new Kindle Fire HD 7" and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" during Amazon

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Siemens CEO Loescher is pictured during interview in Munich

Google Executive Chairman Schmidt speaks at a promotional event for the Nexus 7 tablet in Seoul

A salesperson waits for customers at a Lenovo shop in Shanghai

Foxconn worker Zhang is given a doll to play with inside a Shenzhen hospital

Amazon CEO Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A sign showing the location of Groupon Inc corporate headquarters is displayed in Chicago

A man tries Samsung Electronics

Amazon CEO Bezos walks off after unveiling the Kindle Paperwhite, Kendle Fire HD 8.9" and 7" during Amazon

A child wears a headband during a protest against the construction of Australia

People visit the Huawei booth at a communication technologies exhibition in Beijing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a launch event for new HTC Microsoft Windows phones in New York

File photo shows a ZTE flag fluttering in front of the Chinese national flag outside its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

Workers are pictured beneath clocks displaying time zones in various parts of the world at an outsourcing centre in Bangalore

File photo shows the Amazon streaming video app for Apple

Zynga General Manager Lo Toney takes the stage at the Zynga Unleashed event at the company

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Reps. Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger hold a news conference on Huawei and ZTE in Washington

Re-useable Walmart bags are seen in a newly opened Walmart Neighborhood Market in Chicago

A GM sign is seen outside the Medved General Motors car dealership in Arvada, Colorado

HTC CEO Chou speaks during the launch event for new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system HTC phones in New York

A ZTE flag flutters in front of the Chinese national flag outside its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Employees work on their computer terminals on the floor of an outsourcing centre in Bangalore

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

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Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

A customer holds up an Apple iPhone 5 to pose for a photo during an exclusive sale by Belgian operator Mobistar in Brussels

Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside at a launch event in New York

A man looks at Sony Corp

The Hawaiian island of Lanai is pictured in NASA satellite handout image

Crew members produce an episode of Tekzilla at Revision3 in San Francisco

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A customer with a cup of coffee leaves the new Starbucks store in San Jose

Amazon CEO Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon

A Nokia executive shows the new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gestures as he addresses students at the Moscow State University in Moscow

German mason Timothy Vincent looks at a QR code engraved onto a gravestone in the Austrian village of Boeheimkirchen

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a Motorola phone launch event in New York

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The founders of the website Rap Genius pose in this handout photo

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The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

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File photo of signage for a T-Mobile store pictured in downtown Los Angeles

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Renesas Electronics Corp

An aerial view of mobile phone maker Nokia

Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

Lenovo

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivers his keynote address at Oracle Open World in San Francisco

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

A customer holds up an Apple iPhone 5 to pose for a photo during an exclusive sale by Belgian operator Mobistar in Brussels

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

New U.S. citizen holds American flag during naturalization ceremony marking the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty at Liberty Island in New York

Models hold Samsung Electronics

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The White House is pictured after sunrise in Washington

Yahoo! CEO Mayer listens during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev meets Facebook CEO Zuckerberg at the Gorki residence outside Moscow

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

View of corporate sign outside the Honeywell International Automation and Control Solutions manufacturing plant in Golden Valley

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop introduces new Nokia phones with Microsoft

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop introduces new Nokia phones with Microsoft

A visitor looks around behind Samsung Electronics

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

A Google employee poses with Nexus 7 tablets at a promotional event in Seoul

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves at the end of Apple Inc.

File photo shows an online coupon sent via email from Groupon pictured on a laptop screen in Los Angeles

Models of Nokia Lumia 900 cellular telephone are pictured in San Francisco

Research In Motion CEO Heins gestures while delivering his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

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File photo shows shoppers on an escalator travelling past Sharp

Attendees look over Hewlett-Packard computer tablet that features Intel Corp

Apple employees hang an iPhone 5 sign at one of the company

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

Kaspersky Lab CEO and Co-founder Eugene Kaspersky speaks during the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in London

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A Nokia executive shows the new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A Bank of America sign is seen outside of a branch in Greenville

A view shows Toshiba Corp

A worker inspects Sharp TV display sets at an electronic shop in Tokyo

Megaupload founder Dotcom talks to members of the media outside the New Zealand Court of Appeals in Wellington

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Yahoo! CEO Mayer listens during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 in San Francisco

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File photo of new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device pictured during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin

The NOOK HD+ in an image courtesy of Barnes & Noble. REUTERS/Handout

Rovio Entertainment media producer Kalle Kaivola and Vice President Ville Heijari smile during a news conference in Espoo

A man walks past a screen during a news conference announcing the opening of Facebook offices in Dubai

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

Man looks at his iPhone in Rome

Research In Motion CEO Heins discusses features of Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose

File photo of HP CEO Hurd speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena

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Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco John Chambers speaks at the Global Investment Conference 2012 in London

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Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

Combo of undated handout photo shows new Nokia Asha 308 mobile phone

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People look at a view of Google Maps on the new "iPad" during the launch of Apple

A child wears a headband during a protest against the construction of Australia

Google Executive Chairman Schmidt poses with Nexus 7 tablet at a promotional event in Tokyo

Undated handout photo of the LeapPad 2 from LeapFrog Enterprises

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Workers clean up glass shards from the broken windows of a security room at Foxconn Tech-Industry Park in Taiyuan

Journalist checks the U.S. Senate

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

The Tabeo tablet in an image courtesy of Toys R Us. REUTERS/Handout

Huawei mobile phones are displayed in one of its offices in Shenzhen

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Wan, CEO of Huawei Device, poses with a Huawei MediaPad tablet device during an interview in Shenzhen

An Apple employee distributes iPhone 5 in San Francisco

Solar panels are pictured in the Nevada Desert as U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar Project in Boulder City, Nevada

Workers clean up glass shards from the broken windows of a security room at Foxconn Tech-Industry Park in Taiyuan

Toyota

An Apple employee hands out an iPhone 5 at an Apple Store in San Francisco

An iPhone5 is displayed at an Apple Store in San Francisco

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks at the company

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A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

A Bank of America customer uses an ATM in Charlotte

An Apple iPhone 5 phone is displayed in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Couple stands in front of a Swiss railway clock as they check the departure times of trains at the central station in Zurich

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

File photo of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talking during his keynote address at Oracle Open World in San Francisco

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Lenny Kravitz performs at the Rock in Rio Music Festival in Rio de Janeiro

A member of the media uses the map function of iPhone 5 after its introduction during Apple Inc.

A Walmart store, that was destroyed by a tornado and later rebuilt, is seen in Joplin

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A promoter helps a visitor try out new game software on Sony

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at a Motorola phone launch event in New York

General view of Microsoft Corporation new headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris

Samsung flags are set up at main entrance to Berlin fair ground

A woman walks out of AOL offices in New York

Adobe CEO Narayen speaks at the Samsung keynote address on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

The falling price of Facebook

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

JPMorgan Chase & Co

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Carter adjusts his glasses during his meeting with Japanese Senior Vice Defence Minister Watanabe during their meeting in Tokyo

Facebook website pages opened in an internet browser are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer holds up an HTC Windows Phone 8X during its launch event in New York

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during Apple Inc.

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop introduces new Nokia phones with Microsoft

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

A man with video camera records outside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts before Apple introduced the iPhone 5 in San Francisco

Handout aerial photograph shows Britain

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

The Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry 9900 smartphone handset is stacked on top of other Blackberry smartphones in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

A visitor sits at the YouTube stand during the International Record Music Publishing and Video Music Market in Cannes

Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside speaks at a Motorola phone launch event in New York

Models pose with new "Optimus G" smartphones, made by LG Electronics Inc, in Seoul

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss leave the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after a hearing on a settlement dispute with Facebook in San Francisco

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a question and answer session at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco

The iPhone 5 from the back after its introduction during Apple Inc.

A DRAM chip is displayed on a table inside a computer mall in Taipei

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

The iPhone 5 on display after its introduction during Apple Inc.

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Nintendo

Co-founder Bre Pettis holds a three-dimensional printer "The Replicator" in front of Makerbot Industries LLC manufacturing location in Brooklyn

Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc., introduces the iPhone 5 during Apple Inc.

Customers wait in line at the electronics department of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Torrington

Nintendo Co

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a question and answer session at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco

An interior view of the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi

A burnt car is parked at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook takes the stage after the introduction of the iPhone 5 during Apple Inc.

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

A man stands besides LG Display

German headquarter by NSN is pictured in Munich

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a question and answer session at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco

Google and Apple applications are seen on the display of IPhone in this photo illustration taken in Berlin

The Digital Domain stadium is seen in Port St. Lucie

German headquarter by NSN is pictured in Munich

The falling price of Facebook

A view of the Hewlett Packard headquarters in Palo Alto

A Kodak film dispenser is seen in a photo store in London

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

Amazon CEO Bezos walks off after unveiling the Kindle Paperwhite, Kendle Fire HD 8.9" and 7" during Amazon

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a Nokia phone launch, with Microsoft

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Backlit keyboard is reflected in screen of Apple Macbook Pro notebook computer

U.S. President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Biden

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul

A Nokia executive shows the new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

A visitor plays with a HTC Radar smartphone at the Windows Phone section at the Microsoft booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition in Taipei

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Employees of Indian software company Infosys walk past Infosys logos at their campus in the Electronic City area in Bangalore

An employee demonstrates the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9" at Amazon

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

A selection of Nokia smart phone Lumia 800

Sony

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Man looks at Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone during press preview day before official start of IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Product specialists display new Motorola droid phones Droid Razor M, Droid Razor HD and the Droid Razor Maxx HD during a launch event in New York

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A Nokia executive shows the new Lumia 920 phone with Microsoft

Lenovo

ISS Expedition 32 flight engineers Sunita Williams of NASA and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency perform a spacewalk to complete an equipment installation outside the International Space Station

A woman uses a computer keyboard in this photo illustration taken in Sydney

Lappin, vice president of Lenovo Group and executive chairman of Lenovo NEC Holdings poses in front of screen where his name and the company

A customer with a cup of coffee leaves the new Starbucks store in San Jose

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Customers talk to a salesperson about a new laptop at a Lenovo shop in Shanghai

An employees walks past a signage board in the Infosys campus at the Electronics City IT district in Bangalore

Samsung Electronics

Pirate Bay co-founders Neij, Svartholm and Sunde leave the city court after the last day of argument

An employee adjusts Sony Tablets displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo

The exterior of Ericsson

Li, co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu, arrives to speak at the Baidu technology innovation conference in Beijing

File photo of a Sharp Corp flag, Japanese national flag and Foxconn flag hoisted at Sharp

File photo of a worker fixing an entrance sign at Samsung booth before IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

An employee poses as he holds Apple

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead an audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Shopping carts are seen outside a new Walmart Express store in Chicago

Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

Amazon CEO Bezos holds up the new Kindle Fire tablet at news conference in New York

A combination photo showing Google CEO Page in New York and Apple CEO Cook in Cupertino

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Barclays Capital specialists work at the post that trades Knight Capital on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Jeff Bezos holds up the new Kindle Fire at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

President and CEO of Sony Corporation Hirai addresses news conference before start of IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Hon Hai Precision Industry chairman and founder Gou speaks during a news conference in Tokyo

Internet-enabled TiVo digital video recorders displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Traders work at the kiosk where Pandora internet radio is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

A model poses with the new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin

Samsung Electronics UK General Manager Cusick presents the new Samsung ATIV S smartphone during the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin

Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona

An employee adjusts Sony Tablets displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

A customer tries the Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone at a store in Seoul

An Apple IPhone 4s and Samsung Galaxy S are seen in this illustration photo

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

A customer tries the Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone at a store in Seoul

An outdoor billboard advertising Samsung Electronics is seen in Seoul

A salesman demonstrates a Nokia smartphone in a shop in Riga

Employee holds up a Samsung Electronics

An outdoor billboard advertising Samsung Electronics is seen in Seoul

An employee poses as he holds Apple

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A Samsung customer waits at its service centre in Kuala Lumpur

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People wait on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Two Royal Australian Air Force fighter jets fly over Port Philip Bay as part of the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

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A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Exterior of federal courthouse is shown during jury deliberations for the Apple-Samsung trial in San Jose

Samsung attorney Verhoeven delivers his opening statement in trial between Samsung and Apple in San Jose, California

The falling price of Facebook

A sign showing customers

A man shows a photograph he took on his iPhone of an Apple store in Beijing

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

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Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

The offices of IAC, an internet company with more than 50 brands serving consumer audiences is pictured in West Hollywood

Man from India

Protesters march through midtown Manhattan while demonstrating in solidarity with the Russian punk band Pussy Riot in New York

People walk at the main office building of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

People wait on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

People preview video games at the OnLive booth at E3 in Los Angeles

Peter Thiel, entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, speaks during a news conference in Washington

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Newly assembled 2013 Ford Escapes sit on plant lots ready to be shipped out to dealers at the newly transformed Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Apple attorney Lee is shown questioning Samsung

Publicity photo of competititon during the Intel Extreme Masters at Gamescon in Cologne

Traffic is backed up as residents return to town after being evacuated during wildfires in the Ramona area of San Diego County

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Samsung

Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom stands next to his wife Mona as he talks to members of the media after he left the High Court in Auckland

Samsung employee reaches up to display a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 at an unveiling event in New York

A LePhone is on display during a news conference in Hong Kong

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Customers talk to a salesperson about a new laptop at a Lenovo shop in Shanghai

File photo of a woman using an iPhone as she and other pedestrians walk past an Apple store in Beijing

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

Visitors play

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

Nokia CEO Elop looks on during the company

Handout of the 1959 Cadillac Cyclone concept car

Shoppers cart their purchases from a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City

Groupon CEO Mason prepares for the opening bell ceremony celebrating his company

A man plays Sony

Samsung

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Workers walk out of the entrance to a Foxconn factory in Chengdu

File photo shows banners of the Elpida Backup Fair at an electronics store in Tokyo

A senior citizen student stares at a computer screen during a class to teach seniors how to use Facebook at a branch of the New York Public Library in New York

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason poses with his wife Jenny Gillespie outside the Nasdaq Market following his company

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

Micron Technology Inc COO Mark Durcan speaks during Reuters Technology Summit in San Francisco

An employee sits in front of a poster advertising the New iPad at an Apple dealership in Wuhan

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

Apple attorney McElhinny is shown direct-examining Apple software chief Forstall in the witness stand as U.S. District Judge Koh looks on, in this court sketch in San Jose

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Facebook website pages opened in an internet browser are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

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Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

An IBM Central Processor Unit is seen on a Hard Disk Drive controller in Kiev

File photo of Kaspersky Lab CEO and Co-founder Eugene Kaspersky speaking during the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in London

The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Photo illustration of mobile phones made by Nokia in Warsaw

People look at Sony Corp

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim addresses the audience next to his son Carlos Slim Domit and Oscar Von Hauske, general director of Telmex International, in Mexico City

U.S. President Barack Obama wipes his brow in a hot gymnasium during an election campaign rally in Grand Junction

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Iced coffee sits on a counter in a Starbucks outlet in New York

eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a news conference in Tokyo

Members of Free Syrian Army, who defected from the regular army, are seen in Kafranbel, near Idlib Syria

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom leaves the High Court in Auckland

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

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eBay Inc President and CEO Donahoe speaks during a news conference in Tokyo

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A customer looks at the screen of an iPad in an Apple store in central Prague

Zynga Senior Vice President of Product Development Mark Skaggs speaks during the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

NBC logos are seen on a door with buildings around Rockefeller Center reflected in the background at the home of NBC

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

File photo of salesperson walking among Sharp Corp

A man uses his mobile phone at a Samsung Electronics store in the company

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Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

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Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

A Lenovo Ultrabook is displayed during Reuters China Investment Summit in Hong Kong

Zynga Chief Engineer Kostadis Roussos speaks at the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt talks about the Nexus Q at the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

A screengrab shows the new version of Hotmail that Microsoft

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona

A man looks at Panasonic

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New York

Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and his wife Nicole Levinsohn attend

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks at the company

File photo of Aleynikov departing federal court in New York

Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc

Valeriia Maksiuta of Israel performs on the balance beam during the women

People walk past a closed shop, which will be opened and inaugurated as the largest Apple store in southern Europe

An employee at KT Corp works at the company

Zynga General Manager Manuel Bronstein speaks at the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

A man walks past the Kodak World Headquarters sign in Rochester, New York

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks at the Global Investment Conference in London

Monitors show the value of the Facebook, Inc. stock during morning trading at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

Computer benchmark tester Shimpi poses for Reuters in his office in Raleigh

A man standing passes Samsung Electronics

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A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

Monitors show the value of the Facebook, Inc. stock during morning trading at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

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Facebook website pages opened in an internet browser is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Photo illustration of a mobile phone made by Nokia in Warsaw

A man walks out of the headquarters of LG Display in Seoul

Logitech headquarters are pictured in Morges near Lausanne

Attendees gather at the Android developer sandbox during the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco

File photo of people waiting on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

Employees hang a poster advertising the New iPad at an Apple dealership in Wuhan

File photo of people waiting on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone handsets are pictured in this illustration picture taken in Lavigny

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A security guard walks past a Cisco display at the Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

A man shows a photograph he took on his iPhone of an Apple store in Beijing

Windows 7 operating system software are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc

A man holds a Samsung S II and Samsung Ace smartphones next to an Apple iPhone 4 in Houten

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

Kodak World Headquarters is pictured in Rochester, New York

People walk past the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York

A woman walks past a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

An employee sits in front of a poster advertising the New iPad at an Apple Store in Wuhan

File photo of Marissa Mayer posing at Google

Marissa Mayer of Google Inc unveils Google Instant in San Francisco

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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The exterior of one of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) buildings is seen in Waterloo

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

Nokia employees arrive for a personnel briefing in Oulu

A visitor looks around behind Samsung Electronics

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs holds new iPhone in San Francisco

The white Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 2 are advertised in the window of an AT&T cellular store in Los Angeles

Nokia phones are displayed in a shop in Riga

The Windows 8 operating system is displayed at the Microsoft booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei

Internet entrepreneur and Zynga CEO Mark Pincus attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho

MasterCard and VISA credit cards are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Hong Kong

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

A guest checks his mobile device before the start of the Research In Motion Limited (RIM) annual general meeting of shareholders in Waterloo

Dell Inc Chairman and CEO Michael Dell is seen during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco

A posed picture shows a Motorola Droid phone displaying the Google search page in New York

Website of Yahoo Japan Corp is seen on a computer screen at a Yahoo! Cafe in Tokyo

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

Workers set-up a Samsung booth as they prepare for the 2012 International CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas

A ZTE flag flutters in front of the Chinese national flag outside its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

File photo of Marissa Mayer posing at Google

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office in San Francisco

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New York

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A Google homepage is displayed on a Motorola Droid phone in Washington

Models of Nokia Lumia 900 cellular telephone are pictured in San Francisco

Nokia Lumia 900 cell phones are shown for sale in Carlsbad

File photo of a view of the General Motors headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit

An attendee uses Google Map on a Google Nexus 7 tablet during Google I/O 2012 Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco

Hostesses play Wii games during the video game show in Paris

Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec Corp., speaks at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in New York

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook takes the stage during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

A combination picture showing screen grabs of the Apple web site in the U.S and a store in Tehran called Apple Iran

File picture shows Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, in Burbank

Google CEO Page speaks during a press announcement at Google headquarters in New York

Kaoru Kato, president and chief executive officer of Japan

Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, speaks during a news conference at at the CES in Las Vegas

File photo of a policeman looking out from a balcony as the crowd is dispersed from the front of an Apple store in Beijing

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Man looks at Toshiba Corp

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

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Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Plarium CEO Shalel sits in office near Tel Aviv

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talks to members of the media as he leaves the High Court in Auckland

RIM President and CEO Heins speaks during the annual general meeting of shareholders in Waterloo

The sign at the IBM facility near Boulder, Colorado is seen with the Boulder Flatiron mountains in the background

A man inspects the Apple New iPad next to an iPad 2 at an electronics store in Mumbai

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A poster of the Elpida Backup Fair is displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo

Still image from video shows founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Dotcom at court in Auckland

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

A man uses Samsung Electronics

Sign of Verizon Wireless is seen at its store in Westminster

Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius XM Radio Inc., takes part in the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills

Customers wait outside Verizon Wireless store in New York to buy the iPhone on first day of Verizon service availability

People try out the Galaxy Tab 10.1 displayed in a store at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

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A man walks past Sharp Corp

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

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The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

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File photo of an employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holding a Samsung Electronics

A shop attendant arranges HTC phones in a mobile phone store in Taipei

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Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Joe Belfiore introduces the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system in San Francisco

File photo of a man trying Samsung Electronics

A tribute to Steve Jobs left outside downtown Apple store in Montreal

Federal Judge Richard Posner poses in his Chambers in Chicago

A model poses with Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong

A giant "like" icon made popular by Facebook is seen at the company

People wait on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

RIM CEO Heins holds up a prototype of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone at the BlackBerry World event in Orlando

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

A Samsung tablet runs a Ustream App at the Verizon booth during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

People use computers at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

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A boy closes shutter of shop painted with advertisement for Bharti Airtel in Ahmedabad

Man walks past Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View

The main entrance to Micron corporate headquarters in Boise, Idaho

File photo of a woman standing near an Apple billboard advertising the iPad 2 in downtown Shanghai

People wait on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

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Hugo Barra, director of product management of Google, holds a Samsung Galaxy Nexus mobile phone during Google I/O 2012 Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco

A posed picture shows a Motorola Droid phone displaying the Google search page in New York

Monitors show the value of the Facebook, Inc. stock during morning trading at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Shoppers pass in front of John Lewis department store in Oxford Street in central London

The plastic shell of a French Minitel terminal is broken down for recycling in Portet-Sur-Garonne

File photo of a woman using her mobile phone at the Blackberry World Event in Orlando

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google Chrome, speaks during Google I/O Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California

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A woman walks by a sign at the Rogers Communications headquarters building on the day of their annual general meeting for shareholders in Toronto

Nokia President and CEO Elop and incoming chairman Siilasmaa address reporters ahead of the company

A woman uses an iPhone as she and other pedestrians walks past an Apple store in Beijing

Still image from video shows founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Dotcom at court in Auckland

Google CEO Sergey Brin speaks at Google I/O 2012 Conference

Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet at Google I/O 2012 Conference

Philipp Humm, CEO & President of T-Mobile USA addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana

Dan Hesse, CEO of the Sprint Nextel Corporation addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana

A labourer works at a site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A police investigator searches for evidence following attack on Microsoft

A policeman walks in front of Microsoft

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

A visitor looks around behind Samsung Electronics

Radio/TV personality Howard Stern speaks during an "America

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Mir Islam exits the Manhattan Federal Court in New York

Zynga Chief Mobile Officer David Ko speaks during the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

Cisco Systems executive Ned Hooper talks about video on the Internet during a news conference at at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Employee works inside an office of Rovio, the company which created the video game Angry Birds, in Shanghai

An employee walks on solar panels at a solar power plant in Aksu

Screenshot showing character Roxxi in the digital game Re-Mission is seen in this handout image provided to Reuters

A woman holds up her new Samsung Galaxy S III after it was launched at Westfield in west London

Keenen Thompson and Jessica Mellow surf the web while waiting in line to buy an iPhone 4S at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

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Microsoft CEO Ballmer annouces Yammer aquisition in San Francisco

Artist Yoko Ono reacts as she receives the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Award in Vienna

A Lenovo monitor is on display during a news conference in Hong Kong

Sony and Panasonic TV sets are displayed at an electronic shop in Tokyo

A woman holds up her new Samsung Galaxy S III after it was launched at Westfield in west London

A woman holds up her new Samsung Galaxy S III after it was launched at Westfield in west London

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

Google CEO Page speaks during a press announcement at Google headquarters in New York

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File photo of HP CEO Hurd speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena

Nokia CEO Elop looks on during the company

A woman holds up her new Samsung Galaxy S III after it was launched at Westfield in west London

Moffitt speaks during Nintendo All-Access Presentation at E3 2012 in Los Angeles

A Lenovo Ultrabook is displayed during Reuters China Investment Summit in Hong Kong

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A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

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Thomas Alt, Chief Executive Office of Metaio, one of the leaders in augmented reality (AR) technology, attends a Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in Paris

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gestures during his keynote address at Oracle Open World in San Francisco

A man waiting to buy a new iPad tablet uses his laptop as he queues in front of an Apple store in Sydney

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Joe Belfiore introduces the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system in San Francisco

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

A stranded passenger uses his laptop while waiting for his flight at the Zaventem international airport near Brussels

An image of Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp

A posed picture shows a Motorola Droid phone displaying the Google search page in New York

Handout photograph of Pearl.com CEO Andy Kurtzig in San Francisco, California

A view of the Kodak booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at its unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles

A photographer takes pictures of new Microsoft Surface tablet computers on display at its unveiling in Los Angeles

Man walks past sign welcoming Facebook to the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

New Surface tablet computers by Microsoft are displayed at its unveiling in Los Angeles

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Screenshot shows blacked-out Google homepage in protest against proposed legislation on online piracy

An Apple iPad is pictured in a display window at the Apple Store in Washington

Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry speaks during the Reuters Media and Technology Summit in New York

City workers make phone calls outside the London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square in the City of London

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Nokia employees arrive for a personnel briefing in Oulu

The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

A man walks out of the Blackberry maker

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Handout photo of Ellen Pao, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Kapanen leaves the Nokia mobile phone plant, after Nokia

Nokia employees arrive for a personnel briefing in Oulu

German headquarter by NSN is pictured in Munich

Intel CFO Stacy Smith speaks during the Reuters Media and Technology Summit in New York

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

Photo illustration of a collection of mobile phones made by Nokia in Warsaw

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec Corp., speaks at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in New York

iPhone 4 and accessories in Verizon Wireless store in New York on first day of Verizon service availability

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

A stack of shopping baskets are seen in a Sainsbury

Georgens, CEO of NetApp Inc., speaks at a Reuters Technology Summit in San Francisco

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A man walks past the Kodak World Headquarters sign in Rochester, New York

Yves Guillemot, cofounder and CEO of Ubisoft speaks at a news briefing during the E3 game expo in Los Angeles

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Apple Inc CEO Time Cook speaks from onstage during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco

European Digital Agenda Commissioner Kroes addresses a news conference in Brussels

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Eugene Kaspersky speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

Surfboards lean against a wall at the Google office in Santa Monica, California, in this October 11, 2010 file photo.

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The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

An Acer 11-inch ultrabook Aspire S7 with Microsoft Windows 8 operation system is displayed during a news conference as part of the preview of the 2012 Computex exhibition at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei

William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, holds the new Nook Tablet at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

File photo of Curt Schilling in Los Angeles

A woman holds up her new Samsung Galaxy S III after it was launched at Westfield in west London

One of the women uses a mobile phone as they walk at the Blackberry maker

A Twitter page is displayed on an Apple iPhone in Los Angeles

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

Banner announcing Linkedin Inc. listing on the New York Stock Exchange hangs on Exchange in New York

A shop assistant poses with the new Samsung Galaxy S III after it

File photo shows a visitor playing with a HTC Radar smartphone at the Windows Phone section at the Microsoft booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition in Taipei

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speaks at the company

Ng zooms in to Paris on panoramic Google Maps screens at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Kaspersky Lab CEO Kaspersky talks to Ischinger Chairman of Conference on Security Policy at 48th Conference on Security Policy in Munich

A man looks at his iPad while sitting in a cafe in central Beijing

General view of the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki

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The sun sets on the entrance sign at Facebook

Windows 7 operating system software are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

A visitor looks around behind Samsung Electronics

Shoppers walk past an advertisement board of Sony

Mehdi introduces XBox Music at Microsoft XBox news briefing during the E3 game expo in Los Angeles

Woman talks on her mobile phone while passing mural on wall of former U.S. embassy in Tehran

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Leaders hold copies of the BRICS report after its release during a plenary session of the summit in New Delhi

A man plays a Nintendo 3DS portable game console near a advertisement of Sony

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Attendees wait in line to see the new Nintendo Wii U controller during the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles

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Photo illustration of mobile phones made by Nokia in Warsaw

A man walks out of the Blackberry maker

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Customers try out the iPhone 4S at the Apple retail store in San Francisco

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop welcomes Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer with a handshake at a Nokia event in London

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

File photo of lawyer Wilkinson arriving with husband Gregory at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Apple CEO Cook visits the iPhone production line at the newly built Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom talks to members of the media as he leaves the High Court in Auckland

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivers the keynote address at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Sean Parker attends the eG8 forum in Paris

A Mitt Romney campaign iPhone app is seen here, with the word "America" misspelled in New York

An internet cable is seen at a server room in this picture illustration taken in Warsaw

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee arrives at Gimpo airport in Seoul after he visited several European countries and Japan

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Mexican tycoon Slim speaks during the opening of the World Travel and Tourism Council

A woman talks on her phone as she walks past T-mobile and Sprint wireless stores in New York

Former Olympus President and CEO Woodford walks before he attends Olympus Corp

Customers pose for the media after they were first in line to buy Samsung Electronics

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An employee of Samsung Electronics walks past one of its 3D LED televisions displayed at the company

Pedestrians walk near the NASDAQ Marketsite at the start of the listing for Facebook in New York

Traffic flies by the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park before the company

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral

NBC sign on the General Electric building in New York

Bharti Airtel Chairman Mittal walks during the launch ceremony for 4G services in Kolkata

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks on stage during an Apple event introducing the new iPad in San Francisco, California in this March 7, 2012 file photo

The sign in the lobby of the corporate headquarters of Dish Network is seen in the Denver suburb of Englewood

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

File photo of traders work at the Knight Capital kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

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Boxes containing Lenovo desktop computers are seen in an office in Kiev

Video wall displays Intel

Signboard of United Microelectronics Corp is seen in Taiwan

Traders work at the kiosk where Pandora internet radio is traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

File photo of a woman holding up an iPad with the iTunes U app after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

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The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

A view of the National Security Agency at Ft. Meade, Maryland

Google CEO Page speaks during a press announcement at Google headquarters in New York

Employees play table tennis inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on a screen televised from their headquarters in Menlo Park moments after their IPO launch in New York

A bouquet of flowers in honor of the passing of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs lies in front of the sign of Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California

Monitors show the value of the Facebook, Inc. stock during morning trading at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

Employees play table tennis inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Employees play table tennis inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Monitors show value of Facebook, Inc. stock before closing bell at NASDAQ Marketsite in New York

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Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

The Motorola PHOTON 4G Summer and the Motorola TRIUMPH Virgin Mobile Summer mobile phones are seen in New York

Mexican tycoon Slim speaks during the opening of the World Travel and Tourism Council

Recent activity lists "Mark listed FB on NASDAQ" in this image taken from Mark Zuckerberg

File photo of a Nokia smartphone with currency graph on display is seen in Zenica

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Facebook logos on a computer screen are seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

A man uses Samsung Electronics

Former MLB player Curt Schilling poses for Reuters at E3 convention in Los Angeles

File photo of people waiting on street in front of Apple store as they await sales of new iPad in Apple store in Munich

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg waits for Japanese PM Noda before a meeting at the latter

A screen grab of Pinterest.com

File photo of a journalist looking at her Blackberry communication device on Capitol Hill in Washington

An advertisement for Toshiba Corp is pictured at an electronic store in Tokyo

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans

The entrance to the Time Warner Center is seen at Columbus Circle in New York

Dan Hesse, CEO of the Sprint Nextel Corporation addresses attendees during the International CTIA WIRELESS Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana

The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny

File photo of Google Inc

People walk at the main office building of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds an Apple Inc

A man walks past a branch of China Mobile as he talks on his mobile phone on a rainy day in Wuhan

A flag announcing the IPO of Facebook flies next to the American flag outside the offices of J.P. Morgan in New York City

U.S. singer Lady GaGa poses with a plaque presented to her by Universal Music Group during a media event for the launch of Singtel

Man holds up new HTC One after a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A Virgin Atlantic airline aircraft comes in to land at Heathrow Airport in London

A pedestrian walks past a CIBC branch in Montreal

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

An IBM Central Processor Unit is seen on a Hard Disk Drive controller in Kiev

NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wears 3D glasses during his keynote address at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose

A flag announcing the IPO of Facebook flies next to the American flag outside the offices of J.P. Morgan in New York City

A man stands outside of the St. Regis hotel holding a pamphlet of information on investing in the upcoming IPO of Facebook in New York

An Android smartphone displays the Google website in this picture illustration in Seoul

A new AMD Opteron 6000 series processor is seen on a motherboard during a product launch in Taipei

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File picture of super thin 55-inch OLED TVs displayed at a Samsung Electronics booth in Las Vegas

Tattoo artist Dave Hurban displays an iPod Nano which he has attached to his wrists through magnetic piercings in his wrist in New York

Adobe CEO Narayen speaks at the Samsung keynote address on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Falcone, CEO and chief investment officer for Harbinger Capital Partners, participates in a panel discussion during the Skybridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas

A QR code is seen on goods for sale during the launch of a temporary "pop-up" Christmas shop run by online giant eBay on Dean Street in Soho, central London

A reporter tries out a new $79 Kindle tablet at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

Falcone, CEO and chief investment officer for Harbinger Capital Partners, participates in a panel discussion during the Skybridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas

Investor holds prospectus explaining Facebook stock after attending show for Facebook Inc

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

A screenshot from the new web app Weduary, which lets the bride and groom-to-be create a social website that connects guests with each other before the big day

NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gives keynote address in San Jose

File photo of Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Scott Thompson

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

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People walk by the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto

A man stands outside of the St. Regis hotel holding a pamphlet of information on investing in the upcoming IPO of Facebook in New York

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs New York City

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Renderings of a proposed campus for Salesforce.com in San Francisco, California are shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters May 9, 2012

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Video wall displays Intel

Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, attends a ground breaking ceremony at the new China headquarters building at the Lujiazui financial district of Pudong in Shanghai

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

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Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs New York City

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

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Man holds up new HTC One after a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Showgoers walk past a display at the LG Electronics booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

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Liu, Lenovo senior vice president and president of Mobile Internet and Digital Home, introduces the Lenovo K800 smart phone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

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Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corporation delivers his keynote address at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) Enterprise & Applications event in San Diego

Yahoo headquarters is pictured in Sunnyvale

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The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

An Android smartphone displays the Google website in this picture illustration in Seoul

An employee of Hynix walks at the company

The final F-22 Raptor fighter jet rolls out of the assembly plant during a ceremony marking the occasion at the Lockheed Martin Plant in Marietta , Georgia,

A man uses Samsung Electronics

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

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Show-goers pass by the Dolby booth during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

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A reporter tries out a new $79 Kindle tablet at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

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Target Corporation shareholders leave the annual shareholders meeting

Nokia CEO Elop shows the Carl Zeiss lens on the back of the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone during the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

A woman uses her mobile phone at the Blackberry World Event in Orlando

A shop attendant arranges HTC phones in a mobile phone store in Taipei

Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming console units are shown for sale at a Microsoft retail store in San Diego

RIM CEO Heins holds up a prototype of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone at the Blackberry World event in Orlando

RIM CEO Heins is silhouetted during the BlackBerry World event in Orlando

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens to a question from the audience in San Francisco

A view shows an Intel plant under construction in Chandler, Arizona January 25, 2012.

Elpida chips are seen at an electronic store in Tokyo

Oracle CEO Ellison arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose

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Facebook Director of Marketing Mike Hoefflinger announces a new "Premium on Facebook" service in New York City

Falcone testifies before a US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the regulation of hedge funds, on Capitol Hill in Washington

A Vertu Signature mobile phone costing over 9,500 euros is displayed in Helsinki

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Picture shows Nokia mobile phone at a shop in Warsaw

A woman walks past a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

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A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

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Acer

Google

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A member of the media uses a Canon SLR camera to record video as congressman and boxer Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines is interviewed during a media workout at Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles

New York City Council Speaker Quinn makes opening statements to council members at City Hall in New York

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Falcone testifies before a US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the regulation of hedge funds, on Capitol Hill in Washington

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Google

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

Website of Yahoo Japan Corp is seen on a computer screen in Tokyo

Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X Prize foundation, speaks about the "tricorder" prize at the CES in Las Vegas

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Visitors play with Microsoft

File photo of Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivering a keynote address at Facebook

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Morning commuters drive south across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

An employee walks past the Baidu company signage outside its headquarters in Beijing

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after touring the Port of Tampa in Florida

Employees of ZTE chat on the roof of its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong province

Page, Google co-founder, listens as Google CEO Schmidt talks to reporters at Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley

Motorola CEO, Sanjay Jha speaks at the launch of the Motorola PHOTON 4G Summer and the Motorola TRIUMPH Virgin Mobile Summer in New York

A woman holds up an iPad with the iTunes U app after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

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A man looks at his phone as he walks past a Verizon wireless store in New York

An employee of a computer shop poses with a SanDisk compact flash memory card inside a computer mall in Taiwan

Oracle Chief Executive Ellison is pictured being questioned by Google attorney Robert Van Nest in a courtroom sketch

A woman talks on her phone as she walks past T-mobile and Sprint wireless stores in New York

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

Customers wait outside Verizon Wireless store in New York

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An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California

A view of the Hewlett Packard headquarters in Palo Alto

Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie speaks during the annual general meeting of shareholders in Waterloo

Olympic rings made up of 25,000 flowers are seen at Kew Gardens in London

An Apple employee counts money as a customer purchases the newest iPad at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif poses with the newly launched BlackBerry Curve 9220 smartphone in New Delhi

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A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

The sign at the IBM facility near Boulder, Colarado

Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco

People play online games in an internet cafe in downtown Shanghai

A man poses with a replica of the HTC smartphone inside a mobile phone shop in Taipei

A view shows Toshiba Corp

An IBM Central Processor Unit is seen on a Hard Disk Drive controller in Kiev

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General view of the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki

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Rene Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, participates in a U.S. House Judiciary Committe hearing in Washington

Research In Motion Co-CEO Jim Balsillie arrives at the annual general meeting of shareholders in Waterloo

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Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch holds the new NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight

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Employees and guests of Groupon ring the opening bell in celebration of the company

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A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Nokia Lumia 900 cell phones are shown for sale in Carlsbad

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Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

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The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

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Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn responds to questions during media day regarding the company

Sony Corp Chief Financial Officer Kato attends a news conference in Tokyo

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

A photo illustration shows the applications Facebook and Instagram on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb

Pro-democracy demonstrators scuffle with police during a protest against the Chinese government

AT&T employees walk with signs as they protest against contract negotiations in front of the company

A customer views displays of Apple iPads tablet computers in central London

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A man uses his mobile phone at a Samsung Electronics showroom in Seoul

A man walks past Sony

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Google Inc. CEO Larry Page arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Revolution CEO Case attends a meeting of Obama

People visit Google

A model poses with a Galaxy Note of Samsung Electronics during a local launch event for Samsung

Facebook Director of Marketing Mike Hoefflinger announces a new "Premium on Facebook" service in New York City

Facebook Director of Marketing Mike Hoefflinger announces a new "Premium on Facebook" service in New York City

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Publicity photo of prototype of Google Glasses

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A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Two Sansa slotMusic Players are seen against a background of music available for the player at the SanDisk booth at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Goran Marberg holds his new iPad, autographed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who, with his wife Janet, waited in line overnight with customers at the Apple Store in Century City Westfield Shopping Mall

A BlackBerry smartphone handset is displayed in a store in Bern

People enter a GameStop store during "Black Friday" sales in Carle Place, New York

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A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

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A woman walks past a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

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The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Former Acer Chief Executive Gianfranco Lanci speaks during a news conference in New York, November 23, 2010.

The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

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Panasonic

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Solar panels are pictured in the Nevada Desert as U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar Project in Boulder City, Nevada

Employees play table tennis inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

File picture shows workers inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province

The main entrance to Micron corporate headquarters in Boise, Idaho

File photo of police officers walking outside an entrance to News International in London

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Galaxy Nexus smartphone is displayed in Hong Kong

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

LivingSocial co-founder and CEO Tim O

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Speaker of the House Boehner unveils JOBS Act outside Capitol Hill in Washington

Handout photo shows Apple CEO Cook talking to employees as he visits the iPhone production line at the new Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park in Henan

Workers are seen inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province

The sign in the lobby of Avaya Inc. offices and lab in Westminster, Colorado is seen

Visitors walk past an Ebay and PayPal banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

A Best Buy store in Westminster

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg shakes hands with Japan

Australia

Handout photo shows Apple CEO Cook talking to employees as he visits the iPhone production line at the new Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park in Henan

Google Inc. CEO Larry Page arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

China

Chinese Vice-Premier Li gestures as he talks to European Commission President Barroso and European Council President Rompuy in Beijing

EU Competition Commissioner Almunia addresses a news conference in Brussels

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan walk near Fuxing Road in Shanghai

Nokia

New iPad tablets are seen in a window display in an Apple store in Sydney

Okuda, who has been named as Sharp Corp

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

The Supreme Court in Washington

A work station is pictured at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

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Okuda, who has been named as Sharp Corp

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg delivers a keynote address at Facebook

Actress Lisa Kudrow announces that the game Angry Birds has won Best Mobile Game award at the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks to employees at an Apple store in central Beijing

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

File photo of an employee presenting purchased new iPads to a customer at the Apple flagship retail store in San Francisco

Cranney of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz poses for a photograph at the firm

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

An engineer works near the Atlantis Resources AK-1000 tidal energy turbine before it is shipped to the European Marine Energy Centre test site from the port at Invergordon

Visitor talks on his phone next to Windows Phone advertisement during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

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Apple

Dave Cummings, CEO of BATS Trading, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New York

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

AOL Inc. Chief Executive Tim Armstrong rings the opening bell with company representatives at the New York Stock Exchange

Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS Global Markets, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New York

Joe Ratterman, CEO of BATS Global Markets, speaks at the Reuters Exchanges and Trading Summit in New York

German headquarter by NSN is pictured in Munich

Anton (L) and his brother Erik Marinovich pose in this undated handout photo supplied by the Marinovich family

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Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Signage for a T-Mobile store is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, California

A BlackBerry smartphone handset is displayed in a store in Bern

The main entrance to Micron corporate headquarters in Boise, Idaho

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Employment tips pamphlets at job fair sponsored by employment website Monster.com as part of their "Keep America Working" tour in New York

Visitors walk past a Samsung Galaxy tablet advertisement during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

People enter a GameStop store during "Black Friday" sales in Carle Place, New York

General view of the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki

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A woman takes a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama with her iPhone upon his arrival at Hickam Air Base near Honolulu

U.S. entrepreneur Charles Simonyi meets his friend Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at Baikonur

iPhone 4 and accessories in Verizon Wireless store in New York on first day of Verizon service availability

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

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The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks during the company

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Woman uses computer in lounge area of Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) in Berlin

A Fisker Karma luxury plug-in hybrid car is seen at the sixth annual Alternative Transportation Expo and Conference (AltCar) in Santa Monica

Singer Bono of the band U2 walks at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Cuzco

The new HTC smartphone Rhyme is shown during the unveiling event in New York

Customers look at the new iPad at the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto

Sign shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Customers look at the new iPad at the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto,

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

Diller speaks at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena

A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

Visitor talks on his phone next to Windows Phone advertisement during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

People visit Google

People walk by the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto

Olympus Corp

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corporation delivers his keynote address at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) Enterprise & Applications event in San Diego

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A man walks outside one of the Foxconn factory buildings with nets which are installed to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths in Langfang

Former Arkansas Governor Huckabee

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen on at the company

An employee plays pool at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

A man walks outside one of the Foxconn factory buildings with nets which are installed to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths in Langfang

Attendees walk down branded steps at the 29th Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Dell

Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman and CEO of LightSquared delivers his keynote address at the International CTIA wireless industry conference in Orlando

A PayPal Here device affixed to a mobile phone is demonstrated in a handout photo

Passers-by look at a new iPad in a window display in an Apple store in Sydney

Construction manager Tarasenko purchases the first iPad3 from a store in Sydney

A man looks at his mobile next to a Cisco banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Workers prepare the booth for Sharp at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

People look at the Facebook wall at their office in New York

Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson Group, holds a ST-Ericsson 4G LTE chip during his keynote address at the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas

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A visitor walks past an advertising billboard for security software application at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover

The new iPad with the iPhoto application on the screen is on displayed in the demonstration room after the Apple event in San Francisco

Tencent headquarters is seen at Nanshan Hi-Tech Industrial Park in Shenzhen

A man looks around Sharp

Showgoers walk past a display at the LG Electronics booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

A screen grab of the home page of Pinterest.com.

People are reflected in a sign as they walk past British Broadcasting Corporation offices in central London

Oracle CEO Ellison arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose

Google homepage logos are seen on a wall at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

Employees work on LCD panels in the new AU Optronics plant in Trencin

A Boeing Delta 2 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 glides towards Earth on its first test flight over Mojave, California

Man looks at Canon products displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

A worker uses a roll of plastic tape to secure Dell

The new iPad with the iPhoto application on the screen is on displayed in the demonstration room after the Apple event in San Francisco

Kwon, CEO of South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor, speaks during a news conference in Seoul

TCL Multimedia employees work at a production line in a factory in Huizhou, in China

The Yahoo! Connected TV booth is shown during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

People pass by the Motorola booth during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

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CEO of of IAC/InterActiveCorp, Diller, speaks at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York

A MAN WALKS PAST A BILLBOARD OF INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE IN BANGALORE.

Director Falardeau, nominated for the Canadian film "Monsieur Lazhar", has his photograph taken during an event for foreign film nominees during preparations for the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood

Jodie Foster arrives for the premiere of "The Beaver" at The Paramount Theater during the SXSW Film Festival in Austin

Dominik Libicki, CEO of Cyfrowy Polsat, speaks to the media in Warsaw

Visitors play a car racing video game during a visit at the Paris Games Week show in Paris

Nokia President and CEO Kallasvuo talks during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim speaks during the opening of the Soumaya museum in Mexico City

Man holds up new HTC One after a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Apple CEO Cook speaks during an Apple event as he introduces the new iPad in San Francisco

Employees of Nokia Siemens Networks demonstrate in front of the German headquarters of NSN against job cuts in Munich

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

File photo of a woman holding up an iPad with the iTunes U app after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

Attacking team members work to hack into a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

Homepages of Baidu and Google are seen on a computer screen in this illustration photo

Man walks on Apple Inc. campus during shareholders meeting in Cupertino

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, speaks at the Charles Schwab IMPACT 2010 conference in Boston

Cyber security analysts work to defend a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

Computer-generated pop star Hatsune Miku is projected on a screen during her concert in Tokyo

Attendees watch a demonstration of the Google wallet application during a news conference unveiling the mobile payment system in New York

Attacking team members work to hack into a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

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A customer tests out an Apple iPad at an Apple Store in downtown Shanghai

Handout photo of Israeli president Shimon Peres with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Apple CEO Cook speaks during an Apple event in San Francisco

Xie Xianghui, a lawyer representing Proview Technology (Shenzhen) is surrounded by reporters as he walks into the Higher People

Guests preview the new iPad with the iPhoto application in the demonstration room after the Apple event in San Francisco

A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, symbolic of the hacktivist group "Anonymous", takes part in a protest in central Brussels

Handout photo of Israeli president Shimon Peres launching his Facebook page with CEO Mark Zuckerberg

A man shows an example of an iBook textbook on an iPad after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

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Apple CEO Cook introduces the new iPad during an Apple event in San Francisco, California

CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple event in San Francisco, California

Corbis owner Bill Gates speaks at the Corbis annual meeting in New York

Visitors inspect Blackberry mobile phones at their booth at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover

Customer holds Apple Inc iPhone 4 smartphone on display behind company

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

U.S. Senator John McCain speaks during a news conference in Tripoli

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

A woman takes a photo of ultrabooks at the Intel booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

The main headquarters of the FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is seen in Washington

Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Sao Paulo

A security personnel answers a call at the reception counter of the Google office in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad

Protesters depicting Steve Jobs and Foxconn workers act in a street drama in Hong Kong

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

People walk past an Apple billboard advertising the iPad 2 in downtown Shanghai.

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington

Indiana National Guard handout photo of a destroyed school bus in Henryville

People dressed as Zombies dance to Michael Jackson

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg speaks during the premiere of the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" in Los Angeles

A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

Visitors look at a video display at the Motorola booth on the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

An employee works on a computer at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park

Tourists take pictures of a NASA sign at the Kennedy Space Center visitors complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida

People ride their bikes past Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View

A man walks past the Kodak World Headquarters sign in Rochester, New York

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder and CEO of yelp Inc., San Francisco, California testifies before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington

A disabled Buddhist monk walks on the grounds of Shwedagon Pagoda during the 2,600th anniversary of the pagoda in Yangon

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

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Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, speaks at the Charles Schwab IMPACT 2010 conference in Boston

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Timothy M. Donahue speaks at Sprint Nextel press conference in New York.

A BlackBerry smartphone handset is displayed in a store in Bern

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Facebook Vice President of Product Cox delivers a keynote address at Facebook

A page from the Skype website is seen in Singapore

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The interior of a Microsoft retail store is seen in San Diego

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer representing Proview Technology (Shenzhen), smiles at reporters as he walks into the Higher People

A video hangouts stand is pictured at the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

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A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

Google bowls are seen in the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Attendees play Wii Fit Plus at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles

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Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky introduces Windows 8 at the Build conference in Anaheim, California, in this September 13, 2011, file photo

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

A giant "like" icon made popular by Facebook is seen at the company

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a news conference in London

Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Sao Paulo

Nokia

A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

Actress Meryl Streep accepts the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in "The Iron Lady" at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood

File photo of an Elpida DRAM chip is pictured in Taipei

Sony Ericsson

A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

A man walks past an iPad 2 advertisement in Shanghai

Corals are seen at the Great Barrier Reef in this January 2002 handout photo

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, in handcuffs, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland

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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about iTunes at Apple headquarters in Cupertino

U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured during a Democratic Party fundraiser in Bellevue

Employees eat their meal on a guardrail of a bridge near Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A variety of logos hover above the Microsoft booth on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A customer talks on her phone in the purse department at the J.C. Penney store in Westminster

Alcatel-Lucent Chief Executive Officer Ben Verwaayen attends the company

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A man walks down steps under a share price ticker at the London Stock Exchange in the City of London

A conference attendee examines the BlackBerry PlayBook during its launch in Mumbai

Illustrative photo shows financial trader Billy Scott making trades from his Alabama home, July, 2009

An employee walks inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

Woman cycles past apartment complex where head of Olympus

Tim Chae poses for a photo in a conference room where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View February 16, 2012.

Employees stand in front of the gate to a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chongqing municipality

An employee of Samsung Electronics explains as a monitor shows the company

A customer visits the Apple Store in New York City

Worker at work during a night shift in Foxconn

A policeman looks out from a balcony as the crowd is dispersed from the front of an Apple store in Beijing

A journalist checks the U.S. Senate

A boy looks at an Apple iMac desktop computer at the new Apple Store in Pudong Lujiazui in Shanghai

Robin Li, founder and chief executive of Chinese search engine Baidu, attends the Baidu 2011 technology innovation conference in Beijing

The Groupon smartphone app is seen on a Motorola Droid Bionic cellphone in Denver

People walk past a signboard of Olympus Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo

A driver uses his smart phone while in traffic in Encinitas, California

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gives keynote address in San Jose

People attending the Nokia World event check their laptops and mobile devices in London

A posed picture shows a Motorola Droid phone displaying the Google search page in New York

Customers test out Apple iPads in the company

A man walks past the Kodak World Headquarters sign in Rochester, New York

An electronics shop salesperson sells flat screen TVs of Samsung Electronics displayed at a shop in Seoul

Customers try out the iPhone 4S at the Apple retail store in San Francisco

An employee stands next to an empty display desk which at a dealership in Hefei

A pedestrian walks past the NASDAQ building in New York City

A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices made by RIM in Toronto

Teamsters put up a sign at the Philips Electonics booth before the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center

A person tries out an Apple iPad 2 at the company

Signage for Motorola is displayed outside their office building in Tempe, Arizona

Red roses are pictured in a flower shop in Vienna

Customers buy Apple products inside the newest Apple Store during its opening on the East Balcony in the main lobby of New York City

People ride their bikes past Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View

People walk past the Facebook wall inside their office in New York

A model presents a creation during the Timo Wieland show during the Fall/Winter 2012 collection shows during New York Fashion Wee

Olympus Corp President Takayama bows after speaking at a news conference in Tokyo

The company

BlackBerry smartphones are displayed at a store in Seoul

A Motorola Droid phone is seen displaying the Google search page in New York

Cardinal listens as Pope Benedict XVI conducts Easter Vigil service in Saint Peter

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

A woman takes a photo of ultrabooks at the Intel booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

A map is displayed on one of the screens at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs

A man walks through a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

Visitors play

Sony

A woman holds up an iPad with the iTunes U app after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

The main Apple Inc website featuring Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration taken in Central Sydney

San Francisco-based Chris Mok is pictured in this publicity photo from peer-to-peer job site, TaskRabbit, in August 2011. REUTERS/Handout

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A Lenovo Ultrabook is displayed during Reuters China Investment Summit in Hong Kong

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

Workers leave after finishing a shift at the Nokia phone assembly plant in Komarom

File photo of Google Inc

A woman talks on her phone as she walks past T-mobile and Sprint wireless stores in New York

Picture shows Nokia mobile phone at a shop in Warsaw

People look at the Facebook wall at their office in New York

A sign of Research in Motion is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo

Yahoo Inc. offices, housing its Search Marketing Group, are pictured in Burbank

Norton

Law student Schrems briefs the media in Vienna

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

A worker lifts a box at Amazon

Orascom Telecom chairman Naguib Sawiris speaks during a conference in Beirut

Customers rent DVD movies from a redbox video kiosk in Burbank, California

A shop attendant arranges HTC phones in a mobile phone store in Taipei

An illustration picture shows the log-on screen for the website Facebook in Munich

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford speaks to a reporter from inside a van as he leaves a news conference in Tokyo

Micron Technology Inc. COO Durcan listens to a question during the Reuters Technology Summit in San Francisco

A man walks out of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) headquarters in Washington, July 23, 1999.

A customer visits the Apple Store in New York City

German headquarter by NSN is pictured in Munich

Software Engineer Arthur views a scrolling employee photo collage at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

An employee works on a computer at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park

A man walks past an advertisement board of Panasonic outside an electronic shop in Tokyo

Still image from video shows founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Dotcom at court in Auckland

File picture of a giant "like" icon made popular by Facebook is seen at the company

A 2012 Chevrolet Electric Volt gets charged at a charging station at a Chevrolet car sales lot in Troy, Michigan

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the High Court in London

Visitors try Sony Corp

File photo of Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivers a keynote address at the company

Handout picture shows Lockheed Martin jet plant in Fort Worth Texas

Employees work in the international user operations area at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park

File photo of Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivering a keynote address at the company

A Qualcomm sign is seen at one of Qualcomm

A visitor films in front of the

The Nokia Research and Development Centre is seen in Helsinki

iPhone 4 and accessories in Verizon Wireless store in New York on first day of Verizon service availability

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

Hirai President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment presents new Sony S and P tablets at IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Showgoers walk past a display at the LG Electronics booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

An employee of Seagate Technology is enlarged by a magnifying glass as she concentrates on assemblin..

Kodak film and cameras sign on now closed Morgan Camera Shop in Hollywood

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, speaks during the "The Future of Technology" panel at the Fortune Tech Brainstorm 2009 in Pasadena

A Google homepage is displayed on a Motorola Droid phone in Washington

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

A woman uses her mobile phone while holding a cigarette in central London

Customers visit the Apple Store in New York City

The company

A view shows Toshiba Corp

A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

A man shows an example of an iBook textbook on an iPad after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

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Canon digital cameras are displayed at the company

Woman looks at flat screen TV sets in Philips pavilion before opening of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Wilson footballs await packaging at the Wilson Sporting Good dedicated football factory in Ada

Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins is pictured during an interview with Thomson Reuters in New York, January 27, 2012.

Mark Zuckerberg walks out to speak to reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge

Workers stand at the gate of a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in Shenzhen

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers his keynote address at the Facebook f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco

Rubinstein holds the Palm TouchPad during a media presentation at the Herbst Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco

Woman looks at flat screen TV sets in Philips pavilion before opening of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Nintendo Co President Iwata speaks during their strategy and earnings briefings in Tokyo

A customer show his iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

A customer show his iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

A customer tries Samsung Electronics

Man walks past Nintendo

Photo illustration shows a text message of the Q4 Nokia results on the screen of an early Nokia mobile phone in Paris

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple headquarters in Cupertino

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos

Netflix

Symantec

Luke Peters holds the new iPhone 4S outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

Customers try out the iPhone 4S at the Apple retail store in San Francisco

A salesman displays a Blackberry mobile phone to customers next to dummy handsets at a shop in Jammu

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the iPhone 4S at Apple headquarters in Cupertino

Still image from video shows founder of file-sharing website Megaupload Dotcom at court in Auckland

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A man carries packs of Apple iPhone 4S, with each pack containing five sets, outside an Apple store in Hong Kong

Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson Group, holds a ST-Ericsson 4G LTE chip during his keynote address at the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas

An employee works on a computer at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park

Google homepage logos are seen on a wall at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

The Yahoo! Connected TV booth is shown during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

A student at Code Academy works ata computer terminal in this screengrab photo from CodeAcademy.org. REUTERS/Handout

The entrance to the Time Warner Center is seen at Columbus Circle in New York

Cars drive along a main road in central Beijing

The headquarters of Netflix is shown in Los Gatos.

The company

The Nokia Research and Development Centre is seen in Helsinki

General view of the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki

Sony Corp

View of Dotcom Mansion, home to Megaupload founder Dotcom, is seen in Auckland

Customers buy Apple products inside the newest Apple Store during its opening on the East Balcony in the main lobby of New York City

National Intelligence Director McConnell speaks at a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing in Washington

Chuck Grassley talks to supporter Allan Frandson in Des Moines, Iowa.

A customer tries Samsung Electronics

Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington

A visitor is seen at the You Tube stand during the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Rob Wells of Universal Music Group International answers a question from the media in Singapore

Still image from video shows Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom in Auckland

A bastnaesite mineral containing rare earth is pictured in Tokyo

A general view of the NSN headquarters in Espoo

Thorsten Heins poses for a portrait at Research in Motion headquarters in Waterloo

A man walks past signboards of Olympus Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo

A reporter

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, poses on the red carpet before the 6th Annual WITNESS Focus for Change benefit in New York

A man visits the Google stand at the National Retail Federation

The company

The entrance of the Dotcom Mansion, home of accused Kim Dotcom, is seen in Coatesville

Iger, president and CEO of Walt Disney Co, speaks during news conference after ground breaking ceremony of Shanghai Disneyland theme park in Shanghai

A man shops at an Office Depot store in New Yor

Steve Jobs, Apple

The Google home page is shown on Google

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Reid speaks during his news conference on the payroll tax cut extension in Washington

Bicycles for use by employees are lined up at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

Handout file photo shows German internet millionaire Kim Schmitz in Hong Kong

A woman takes a photo of ultrabooks at the Intel booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Ghonim of Egypt participates in a panel discussion on youth, jobs and growth in the Middle East and North Africa, at IMF headquarters in Washington

Microsoft CEO Ballmer speaks at the last opening Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

Actress Lisa Kudrow announces that the game Angry Birds has won Best Mobile Game award at the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York

A Kodak Retina camera is seen in a photo store in London

Apple Marketing chief Phil Schiller speaks during a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York

News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch holds a copy of The Times newspaper as he leaves his home in London

The shadows of spectators are seen through a Chinese national flag during the men

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

People walk past the Federal Reserve building in New York

San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Chiu listens as Jay Nath, city

Anthony Chiasson, who co-founded the Level Global Investors hedge fund, exits United States Court in lower Manhattan

A man holds loudspeakers at the entrance to the Taobao office during a protest in Hangzhou

Tourists use a mobile phone to take a photo of the sunset in the town of Sliema in Valletta

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

A man walks past signboards of Olympus Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo

Fuji Photo Film Co Chief Executive Officer Shigetaka Komori gestures as he speaks during an intervie..

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Leahy and Sessions preside over the second day of Kagan

U.S. President Barack Obama receives tour of a manufacturing facility in North Carolina

Yang

File photo of Google Inc

Wikipedia webpage in use on a laptop computer is seen in this photo illustration taken in Washington

A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

Workers prepare the booth for Samsung at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

Video monitors are shown the Samsung Electronics booth at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

A Nortel sign is seen in downtown Toronto

People attend a workshop on the first day of the 18th World Wide Web Conference in Madrid

Zappos

Passengers arrive at Porto Santo Stefano after a cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island

An employee walks past the Baidu company signage outside its headquarters in Beijing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer leaves the stage after the last opening Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

Man surfs on internet blog at internet bar in Shanghai

News Corporation Chairman and CEO Murdoch arrives at his home in New York

Obama speaks about government reform in Washington

Attendees jam the halls on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

People walk past a signboard of Olympus Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

Motorola

Symantec Security Operations Center

REUTERS/Bobber Interactive

A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo

Cleaners clear rubbish in front of an Apple store with windows covered in egg in Beijing

Rolls of Kodak TMax film are seen on a camera store shelf in New York

People attend a workshop

A Tagg - The Pet Tracker GPS pet collar is displayed at the Qualcomm booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Visitors navigate an aisle on the trade show floor during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Employee types on computer keyboard with both Latin and Cyrillic letters in Sofia

Showgoers look at a display of 55-inch 3D OLED televisions at the LG Electronics booth during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Federal Communication Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski speaks at the Cable Show in Chicago

File photograph of a man pushing a trolley full of Dell computers in Sriperumbudur Taluk

Makoto, who requested that his last name not be used, poses for a photograph as he looks at his cell phone which became an instrument of mental torture that nearly drove him to suicide when he was a high school student in Tokyo

People shop for televisions and other electronics in a store in New York

A monitor displays an attacking team

Samsung Electronics

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listens during a presentation at the opening Microsoft keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas

Pirate Bay

Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corporation, holds an Intel smartphone reference design as he gives a keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Workers prepare the booth for Samsung at the Consumer Electronics Show opening in Las Vegas.

A Google Inc page is shown on a blackberry phone in Encinitas.

Eastman Kodak black and white film, negatives, film development reels and black and white photographic prints are shown in this studio illustration in Washington

A collection of Eastman Kodak color slide film and 35mm film containers is shown in this studio illustration in Washington

A visitor plays with a Playstation at the Sony Playstaytion exhibition stand during the Gamescom 2011 fair in Cologne

Sanjiv Ahuja, Chairman and CEO of LightSquared delivers his keynote address at the International CTIA wireless industry conference in Orlando

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

An undated handout photograph shows an employee working inside an AU Optronics fab laboratory in Taiwan

Teamsters put up a sign at the Philips Electonics booth before the Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center

A visitor is seen at a YouTube stand

Liz Miller of Los Angeles plays Kinect for Star Wars at the Microsoft XBOX 360 booth at E3 in Los Angeles

A man tries out a Nikon camera displayed at an electronics shop in Tokyo

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about iTunes at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.

A worker removes fingerprints from the 2013 Mercedes Benz SL on the first press preview day at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit

Blackberry devices are displayed at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices in Toronto

The new Ascend smartphone from Huawei

Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

A man checks his mobile phone as he walks past a T-Mobile store in downtown Los Angeles

Google bowls are seen in the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Actress Lisa Kudrow announces that the game Angry Birds has won Best Mobile Game award at the 15th annual Webby Awards in New York

A General Motors Co Chevrolet Volt is seen during a news conference at GM

A screen grab shows the access to Netflix online as displayed on a television screen in Encinitas

Workers set up a display for the Samsung Galaxy Note as they prepare for the 2012 International CES at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas

People enter a GameStop store during "Black Friday" sales in Carle Place, New York

Olympus Corp President Takayama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo

Canon digital cameras are displayed at the company

A Yahoo billboard is seen in New York

People pass by the Motorola booth during the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Staff members speak to trade visitors at the Nokia booth at the CommunicAsia expo in Singapore

A dealer shuffles a deck of cards during a poker game at a casino in Budapest

Hirai President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment presents new Sony S and P tablets at IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

Chairman of Tata Group Tata and Tata Sons Deputy Chairman Mistry pose with company

A man cycles past a HTC advertisement in Taipei

Google Inc CEO Eric Schmidt introduces Google TV in San Francisco

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford holds a briefing for reporters ahead of a news conference in Tokyo.

A customer looks at products made by Samsung Electronics at a store at the company

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A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

AT&T mobile phones are seen for sale alongside T-Mobile phones at a RadioShack electronics store in Los Angeles

A Google carpet is seen at the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Pari

General Motors 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle is named Car of the Year by Motor Trend Magazine in Warren, Michigan

A woman uses her Apple iPhone 4 smartphone during a photo opportunity on a street in Seoul

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

The Eastman Business Park is pictured in Rochester, New York

An employee of Seagate Technology is enlarged by a magnifying glass as she concentrates on assemblin..

A page from the PayPal website is seen in Singapore

The sign up page of Linkedin.com is seen in Singapore

PayPal President Scott Thompson

The Groupon smartphone app is displayed on a Motorola Droid Bionic cell phone in Denver

BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch, News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch appear before a parliamentary committee at Portcullis House in London

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Lowell McAdam, Verizon president and COO, speaks at Verizon

Diamond Dash

Flag hangs on the wall of the JP Morgan company stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, speaks during BlackBerry

News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch holds a copy of The Times newspaper as he leaves his home in London

Game designer Will Wright speaks about his latest game SPORE in Singapore

Britain

Kahne rests on the the roof of his car during the race introductions NASCAR Sprint Cup Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol Tennessee

Verizon president McAdam talks on stage with Verizon CEO Seidenberg and Consumer Electronics Association President Shapiro on the opening day of the CES in Las Vegas

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A posed picture shows a Motorola Droid phone displaying the Google search page in New York

Mark Hurd, chairman, CEO and president of HP speaks at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena, California

iPhone 4 and accessories in Verizon Wireless store in New York on first day of Verizon service availability

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A float with a model featuring satellite is displayed during a parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People

Customers wait outside Verizon Wireless store in New York to buy the iPhone on first day of Verizon service availability

Bradley Manning is escorted by military police from the courthouse at Fort Meade in Maryland

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A S-Bahn city train is seen on a platform at the main railway station Hauptbahnhof in Berlin

A screen grab shows the access to Netflix online as displayed on a television screen in Encinitas

A worker prepares a display of Sharp flat panel televisions for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

Visitors board a new testing model of a CSR high-speed bullet train during its launching ceremony in Qingdao

A computer screen displays an online gambling website

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A Yahoo! billboard is seen in New York

A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington

Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

A woman walks outside Research in Motion

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

The head of a new bronze statue of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs awaits the finishing touches in Budapest

Revellers watch as the sun rises at Stonehenge on Salisbury plain in southern England

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

Luke Peters holds the new iPhone 4S outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

The company

AT & T and T-Mobile logos are seen posted on the wall of a subway station at West 14th street and 8th avenue in New York

Falcone testifies before a US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the regulation of hedge funds, on Capitol Hill in Washington

2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Schrock illustrates double carbon bond at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge

People test the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone after it was introduced at a news conference in New York

Saudi Prince Alwaleed speaks at a news conference in Riyadh

A customer looks at an Apple

Foreign visitors look around at a showroom displaying Samsung Electronics

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop speaks at the Nokia World event in London

Olympus Corp

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone is seen after it was introduced at a news conference in New York

A BlackBerry handset is displayed in Washington

View of the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris

Publicity photo of Zynga CEo Mark Pincus and wife Ali following the ringing of the opening bell for the NASDAQ exchange in San Francisco

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Models pose with Galaxy Nexus smartphones in Hong Kong

A man carries packs of Apple iPhone 4S, with each pack containing five sets, outside an Apple store in Hong Kong

Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed stands in front of an Angry Birds poster at his company

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff walks speaks to the crowd during his keynote address at the Dreamforce event in San Francisco

Zynga General Manager Toney introduces Zynga Casino during the Zynga Unleashed event at the company

A reporter tries out a new $79 Kindle tablet at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

A woman walks outside Research in Motion

A person poses the new Blackberry Torch 9860 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices in Toronto

A promotional woman shows a Sony

People look at Apple products inside the newest Apple Store during the opening on the East Balcony in the main lobby of New York City

Sony

Zynga General Manager Toney introduces Zynga Casino during the Zynga Unleashed event at the company

Adhesive notes show face of Apple co-founder and former CEO Jobs on window of apple store in Munich

Broadcom Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Scott McGregor stands in front of the company

Attendees watch a demonstration of the Google wallet application screen during a news conference unveiling the mobile payment system in New York

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A man talks on his cell phone outside Telefonica headquarters in Madrid

People enter and leave Groupon Inc corporate office and headquarters in Chicago

A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices made by RIM in Toronto

Screens are blank at a workplace at the Frankfurt stock exchange

Nexon Co. President Choi Seung-woo poses prior to ringing a bell during a ceremony to mark the company

Russia

The new HTC smartphone Rhyme is shown during the unveiling event in New York

A general view of the NSN headquarters in Espoo

A driver uses his smart phone while in traffic in Encinitas, California

Man fills out form to register for job search in Glendale

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Driver delivers two packages from Amazon.com in Boston, Massachusetts

A shop attendant arranges HTC phones in a mobile phone store in Taipei

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg speaks during the premiere of the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" in Los Angeles

Intel CEO Paul Otellini speaks during his keynote address at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco

A view of a drilling rig and distant production platform in the Soldado Field off Trinidad

Chairman Bill Gates attends the Microsoft Shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Washington

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus speaks at the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

Former Olympus chief executive Michael Woodford leaves after meeting with members of the Justice Department and the FBI in New York

Members of the media and corporate staff wait outside the Herbst Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center for the HP/Palm webOS event in San Francisco

Workers stick-up a banner advertising the new iPad 2 at a computer store in Berlin

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, speaks during the "The Future of Technology" panel at the Fortune Tech Brainstorm 2009 in Pasadena

The European Union flag is pictured in a window reflecting a street in London

A schoolboy uses a laptop as a calf stands near at Khairat village

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Visitors walk past Samsung Electronics

British singer Adele performs "Someone Like You" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles

Visitors walk past Samsung Electronics

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A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles

A driver uses his smart phone while in traffic in Encinitas, California

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus speaks at the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

File photo of Google Inc

Driver delivers two packages from Amazon.com in Boston, Massachusetts

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

A commuter uses a Blackberry and a Kindle while riding the subway in New York

A view of a drilling rig and distant production platform in the Soldado Field off Trinidad

Employees hold a meeting inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou.

Shigeru Miyamoto gives a demonstration during Nintendo

A model stands by a Sharp Quattron 70-inch LCD TV during a news conference at the 2011 International CES in Las Vegas

A salesman walks past Samsung Electronics

A Vertu Signature mobile phone costing over 9,500 euros is displayed in Helsinki

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The facade of the New York Times building is seen in New York

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CEO of Deutsche Telekom Obermann is seen on a camera display during the annual news conference in Bonn

Martha Stewart speaks to the audience at her trade show, called "Good Things", in New York

A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices made by RIM in Toronto

Shoppers look at tablet computers at a Best Buy Store on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Framingham

A man cycles past a HTC advertisement in Taipei

People work at a cafe

"Mario", a character in Nintendo Co Ltd

A customer walks into a BlackBerry store in Mumbai

Amazon CEO Bezos holds up new Kindle Fire tablet at news conference in New York

Verizon president McAdam talks on stage with Verizon CEO Seidenberg and Consumer Electronics Association President Shapiro on the opening day of the CES in Las Vegas

A shop attendant arranges HTC phones in a mobile phone store in Taipei

A salesman displays a Blackberry mobile phone to customers next to dummy handsets at a shop in Jammu

A man looks at an Apple iPad 2 at the company

A WAITER SERVES COFFEE AT AN INTERNET CAFE IN BANGALORE.

Attendees watch a demonstration of the Google wallet application screen during a news conference unveiling the mobile payment system in New York.

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Shareholders arrive for the SAP group general shareholder assembly in Mannheim

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

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The sun rises behind windmills at a wind farm in Palm Springs

The offices and studios of Comcast Entertainment Group is pictured in Los Angeles

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the High Court in London

A woman holds the a RIM PlayBook in Toronto

An analyst looks at code in the malware lab of a cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory

Foreign visitors look around at a showroom displaying Samsung Electronics

Shareholders arrive for the SAP group general shareholder assembly in Mannheim

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

People walk past a sign of Olympus Corp outside the company

A man looks at his mobile next to a Cisco banner at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

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Yves Guillemot, CEO and founder of Ubisoft, addresses the Reuters Global Media Summit in Paris

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Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

French advertising group Publicis Chief executive Maurice Levy speaks during the Reuters Global Media Summit in Paris

Penguin Books CEO John Makinson speaks during the Reuters Global Media Summit in London

Customers purchase the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with the Verizon Wireless network in Boca Raton

Boxes of RIM PlayBooks are seen on a shelf in Toronto

Man on stage at the Zynga Unleashed event at the company

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

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An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

Luke Peters demonstrates Siri, an application which uses voice recognition and detection on the iPhone 4S, outside the Apple store in Covent Garden, London

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

Walt Disney Company President and CEO Bob Iger arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood

A Blackberry Torch 9860 is displayed at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices in Toronto

A recalled Rocketfish iPhone battery case is seen in an undated handout photo

A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

Yahoo headquarters shown in Sunnyvale

A woman talks on her phone as she walks past T-mobile and Sprint wireless stores in New York

The new Nook Tablet is seen during a demonstration at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York

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Man runs past Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus speaks at the Zynga Unleashed event in San Francisco

Van den Belt, the head of SUP media, talks with a Reuters journalist during an interview in Moscow

A woman holds the a RIM PlayBook in Toronto

An employee of South Korean mobile carrier KT holds a Samsung Electronics

A man looks at an ad as he walks past a bus stop near Groupon Inc corporate headquarters in Chicago

The new Wii MotionPlus accessory at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Keenen Thompson and Jessica Mellow surf the web while waiting in line to buy an iPhone 4S at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York

Mark Zuckerberg speaks to reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge

Blackberry smartphones are pictured in this illustration photo taken in Berlin

Zynga General Manager Toney introduces Zynga Casino during the Zynga Unleashed event at the company

Reflections are seen in the window of an AT&T store in New York

Mark Zuckerberg walks away after briefly speaking to reporters during a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

AOL chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong speaks at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York

Director and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard Robert Kotick speaks at the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York

The sign of Deutsche Telekom headquarters is pictured in Bonn

A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the BlackBerry OS 7 devices made by RIM in Toronto

A reporter tries out a new $79 Kindle tablet at a news conference during the launch of Amazon

A man uses his iPhone 4 in Seoul October 25, 2011.

Black Friday shoppers cross 34th street, in Herald Square, in New York

General view of the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki

A man walks past an advertisement of Japan

Customers look at Samsung Electronics

A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden

A man checks his mobile phone as he walks past a T-Mobile store in downtown Los Angeles

Shoppers line-up for television sets at a Target Store in Chicago

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Publicity photo of a model using the UPcload service to obtain body measurements for online clothing purchases

A woman talks on her phone as she walks past T-mobile and Sprint wireless stores in New York

An Elpida DRAM chip is pictured in Taipei, Taiwan

The new HTC smartphone Rhyme is shown during the unveiling event in New York

A woman uses her mobile telephone in central London

Workers of Hana Microelectonics Pcl clean a hall after water receded from parts of the factory in Ayutthaya province

People carrying boxes walk past Chocolate Covered candy shop in the Noe Valley district in San Francisco

The Yahoo! offices are pictured in Santa Monica

A view of the Merck & Co. campus in Linden, New Jersey

A view of the Wal-Mart.com store in Canoga Park

File picture shows telecommunications services company Nokia Siemens Networks offices in Tampere

Logos of Hitachi are seen at an electronic shop in Tokyo

The Groupon smartphone app is displayed on a Motorola Droid Bionic cell phone in Denver

Former CEO of Olympus Corp Woodford is seen through a space between the television camera crew at Narita International Airport

Investor Carl Icahn speaks at the Wall Street Journal Deals & Deal Makers conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman speaks to supporters during her election night loss in Los Angeles

A view shows the AT&T store sign in Broomfield, Colorado

Oracle co-president Mark Hurd speaks to the audience at Oracle Open World in San Francisco

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gestures while speaking at the Facebook f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco

Stranded Qantas passengers look at a Qantas Airbus A330 plane as they wait for their flights at the departure gates of Perth Domestic Airport

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul

Former CEO of Olympus Michael Woodford sits in a television studio before an interview with Reuters in London

A sign is shown at the headquarters of Netflix in Los Gatos

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An attendee plays the PlayStation Move video game "Resistance 3" during the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Los Angeles

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General view of the construction site of the third-generation European Pressurised Water nuclear reactor (EPR) in Flamanville

Western Digital Corporation to report earnings

Man keys in message onto mobile phone in Milan bar

Man surfs on internet blog at internet bar in Shanghai

Man closes door of Olympus Corp

A North Korean woman uses mobile phone to take picture of her friend on a boat along Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong

A customer uses his new iPhone 4S after making the purchase at Apple

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