Retailer Tesco would try to compete in the digital downloads market through the release of its own iPad-like tablet computer.

Web analytics experts said Google outage for a few minutes resulted to a 40% slump in the global internet traffic and a loss of USD500,000.

Google was recently awarded the patent to utilize an eye-tracking technology that could establish a pay-per-gaze advertising system.

Samsung and Sony would introduce their new devices in September 2013, ahead of Apple's iPhone launch.

Hon Hai signed a sales partnership deal with the convenience stores of 7-Eleven in Taiwan to expand its television enterprise.

Reports said Nokia would roll out a tablet powered by Windows RT next month. Microsoft failed to meet the sales expectations on its Surface tablets running on the Windows RT operating system.

Ethiopia signed an USD800 million contract with ZTE for the expansion of the country's mobile phone infrastructure.

Fresh from Activision's success of its popular Skylanders franchise comes Disney Infinity, a move from Walt Diney Inc to expand into the toy-meets-video game-world market.

Analysts said Apple could attain a trillion-dollar valuation considering the company's current services, products and investments for the future.

Reports said the recent changes to Gmail upset several retailers and marketers with already a 1% plunge in the number of opened emails.