If a responsible child sets off on a trip and then disappears into thin air, the parents are to live in a wired nightmare, especially when they do not get a clue to trace him. However, in the case of Jacob Bohem, 22, a senior at Stanford University, thousands of volunteers brought a happy conclusion with the help of social media. Bohem went to Japan in June with the Stanford...

Google recently purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion and this can make many of us curious of Google’s other big-time acquisitions. Over the past few years, Google similarly spent tons of dollars on several occasions. Check the following deals to have an idea about how Google is expanding its empire and portfolio of services. ...

The abrupt downfall of Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS Touchpad is an example of giant companies’ failure in making competition with Apple Inc’s iPad. The whole project of Hewlett-Packard, that was started just seven weeks before, has been doomed to failure right from the start. With other contender such as Dell Streak 5, the TouchPad is almost in the tablet burial ground;...