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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research reported on Monday strong growth in wireless and Internet subscribers in the first quarter, though net profit fell from the sale of a directories unit and South American businesses.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Corporate brands face multi-pronged assaults from fraudulent online attackers, according to a report published on Monday that quantifies the scope of the most common threats.

UK telco British Telecom has built an add-on for laptops, tablets and ultra-mobile PCs that allows users to control their computer simply by moving it around.

EMC subsidiary VMware could raise as much as $100m in its initial public offering of stock, the virtualisation specialist said in a regulatory filing.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Thursday it will launch a video-sharing site in Japan on Friday, marking the electronics and entertainment firm's first step towards challenging Google Inc.'s YouTube service.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Central European nations have closed in fastest amongst emerging economies on the digital elites in North America and western Europe, a ranking of Web-savvy nations showed on Thursday.

Apple reported financial results far ahead of Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday, and the company's board of directors defended chief executive Steve Jobs' role in Apple's stock options backdating scandal.

IBM plans to start selling products from smaller rival MySQL, a developer of an open-source database that is used to help run websites, including Yahoo, Google and YouTube.

PARIS, April 23 (Reuters) - French fixed-line telecoms group Neuf Cegetel (NEUF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it was in exclusive talks to acquire Club Internet, the loss-making French unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research). 

First IBM, then Intel, now Samsung. The South Korean chip maker today said it too was going to implement the 'Through Silicon Via' (TSV) technique to allow it to stack layers of chip dice more efficiently.

Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the rush to explain massacres like the one at Virginia Tech, experts including popular TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw dusted off a familiar scapegoat -- violent video games, movies and other media.

While Microsoft struggles to adapt its Windows and browser platforms for the mobile environment, it is losing ground to Linux even among new friends, notably Palm.

Google will face another trade mark law suit over its AdWords system after a judge refused Google's request that the case be thrown out of court. The issue will be tried before a jury for the first time.