Sometimes, it's not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the search giant's pre-IPO employees, there's great appeal to a workplace that prizes creativity and rewards its employees -- of course, there's also the cachet of working at one of the hottest tech companies in the world, a virtual Shangri-La for the geek set.
What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams?
IBM is set to announce the creation of an Eco-Patents Commons -- shared innovations geared at environmental sustainability -- with the participation of Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes.
Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.
Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales.
Following a number of delays, the One Laptop per Child Foundation's much-awaited XO laptop for needy kids has finally gone into mass production.
Despite leaving the chief executive role at Sun Microsystems last year, Scott McNealy is staying active with the company as chairman, and remains as outspoken as ever.
The Web sites of Australia's two major political parties contain cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, which could be exploited to fraudulently acquire political donations, say security experts.
The One Laptop per Child scheme has announced that it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period.
Star Wars creator George Lucas aims to bring computers closer to education, and in the process deliver practical learning to kids.
Telecom New Zealand is planning a NZ$1 million donation to charity and a week's free Internet access for its customers, in order to make amends for recent outages in its e-mail service.
The findings of a report that commended the privacy policies of search engine providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, has been slammed as bias because of potentially conflicting financial arrangements with the report's publisher.
Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated from criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.
The richest man in the world can now also claim a degree from the college he dropped out of three decades ago.
IBM has developed software designed to let people keep personal information secret when doing business online and donated it to the Higgins open-source project.
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