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Levinsohn's former colleague, News Corp. digital head Jon Miller, is betting that Yahoo's board will give his friend the official title of CEO.

Rumors of the "Office for IOS" offering resurfaces with a November launch date.

The streaming platform partners with the satellite-TV network to launch a service featuring 50 international channels.

The cable and entertainment industry have a love-hate relationship with Netflix and other online streaming services, as execs from some leading companies in the business discuss at the NCTA's Cable Show.

According to an internal memo, retail customers who overpaid for Facebook stock will receive price adjustments.

The CEO and founder completed selling a portion of his stock -- at a price that few other sellers have been able to get since.

The decision in the long-running case came as vindication for Google in its bitter battle with Oracle over Android.

The new version of the search giant's iOS search app is faster and easier to use.

First-quarter threat report finds PC malware at the highest levels in four years, and increases on the Android platform and Mac.

According to several reports, President Barack Obama will be attending a fund-raiser in his honor at the home of Silicon Valley philanthropists tonight.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.

Facebook is agreeing in "principle" to settle allegations that its "Sponsored Stories" advertising platform breached its users' privacy. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. The suit, filed in April 2011, claimed that the social-networking site did not adequately provide a way to opt out of the advertising program that began in January 2011.

An ITC judge ruled Monday that the Microsoft Xbox should face a sales and import ban in the U.S. for violating four Motorola patents.

Wow, Google has really outdone itself with today's doodle (currently live in countries where it's already May 23rd). We've had plenty of great ones before featuring great writers, artist, scientists and, er, snowflakes, but this one features some of the best interactivity I can remember in a while. Today would have been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog, and the doodle honors him with a fully playable version of his famous synthesizer, complete with lots of knobs to twiddle and tweak the sounds just like the real thing.

GTar, which easily broke its 0,000 Kickstarter goal this week after making waves at TechCrunch?s Disrupt NYC conference, is the newest and perhaps the most promising futuristic guitar to help lower the barrier of entry for a new generation of shredders.

The greatest trick the Google's public relations team ever played on the world was convincing people to link to the search service's homepage whenever there's a cool Google Doodle. In this case, they've turned Google.com into a playable Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of synthesizer innovator Robert Moog, inventor of the musical instruments that bear his name.

Is Microsoft's new social network So.cl the next Facebook, Twitter or even Google+? We spent some hands-on time with Microsoft's new social network to find out. The short answer: no.

In the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle, the jury is still grappling over claims that Google infringed on Oracle patents in building its Android mobile operating system. And judging from the questions the jury tossed at the judge on Tuesday, a verdict is still a long ways off.

Despite its plan to get behind a big shift to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with a June 7 launch, Microsoft faces an uphill battle getting U.S. coders to jump from Amazon to its cloud. So it comes as little surprise to see that Microsoft today announced it was launching an accelerator for its Windows Azure cloud in India.