MTN has reported a fall in profit due mainly to exchange rate movements, as it released its results for the year.

India's software and services exports are expected to grow by up to 15 percent to hit $51-billion the next fiscal year to March 2011.

China Mobile, the country's largest mobile operator, says it is still in negotiations with Apple for the sale of iPhones in China.

Facebook and Omniture, the web analytics software maker, say they are working together to help companies use the world's largest social network as a marketing channel.

Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, says its chief operating officer.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against HTC, maker of the Nexus One smartphone from Google, accusing the Taiwan company of infringing on 20 iPhone patents.

Google has acquired online photo-editing site Picnik, as the web search leader continues with a deal binge including three acquisitions in about three weeks.

An audit of its suppliers by Apple has found that several of them used child labour and committed other violations of its supplier code of conduct.

Palm has slashed its revenue targets on weak demand for its smartphones, renewing concerns about its ability to compete against rivals like Apple.

The European Union's executive has confirmed that it had received three anti-trust complaints about Internet search engine Google.

Fastweb chief executive Stefano Parisi has defended the reputation of the Italian broadband company, one day after it was ensnared in a money-laundering probe.

The number of exhibitors at the world's biggest high-tech fair will be down around three percent this year as the tech industry recovers only slowly from a global slump, say organisers.

Wal-Mart has plunged into the online video market with the purchase of Vudu, a company which delivers movies to Internet-enabled television sets and Blu-ray players.

Microsoft says it has sign a deal with Amazon.com that lets each company tap into the other's patented technology, including that for hot-selling Kindle electronic readers.

A hearing to decide the fairness of a deal that would let Google create the world's largest digital library has ended - but not before a judge expressed scepticism.

Microsoft's assault on search engine leader Google took a major step forward as US and European regulators cleared the software company's search partnership with Yahoo.

The satellite navigation industry is looking for direction now that Google and Nokia are offering free maps on smartphones.

The International Trade Commission has launched an investigation of Research In Motion and Apple smartphones that contain digital cameras after receiving a complaint from Kodak.

When it comes to guarding Apple's secrets, Foxconn, a unit of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, and other suppliers throughout China leave little to chance.

Indian telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal is hoping to make it third time lucky as he seeks to gain a presence in Africa, one of the world's least developed mobile phone markets.