Sarah McBride

Tributes have poured in at the news of legendary comic actor Robin Williams’s death by apparent suicide at his home in California on Monday.

Facebook will pay $19-billion in cash and stock for the purchase of popular messaging start-up WhatsApp.

Hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army has claimed credit for the Twitter and Huffington Post hacks in a series of Twitter messages.

YouTube says it will not remove a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad entirely from the site, but it has blocked access to the clip in Egypt and Libya.

Apple scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the popular iPhone and iPad.

From San Francisco to Seoul to Sydney, fans paid tribute to Steve Jobs after he resigned as CEO, calling him an icon for the technology industry.

Rupert Murdoch said on Saturday the decision to close the embattled <i>News of the World</i> tabloid was "a collective decision".