Voting on a proposal to take computer-maker Dell private was delayed for a third time Friday after founder Michael Dell agreed to boost the price of the transaction.

Taiwanese flat-panel maker AU Optronics Corp said Wednesday it returned to profit in the three months to June, ending losses for 10 consecutive quarters, due to strong demand for high-priced TV screens.

NEC said Wednesday its net loss swelled in the three months to June, as the Japanese information technology giant announced plans to exit its once-dominant smartphone business.

Australia’s most powerful computer was unveiled Wednesday, in a boost for climate scientists who need to crunch vast amounts of data to make forecasts and pinpoint extreme weather, officials said.

Tributes poured in on Monday for the visionary co-founder of the Russian search engine Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, who died over the weekend of cancer aged 48.

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, said on Friday its April-June net profit surged 49.7 percent from a year earlier to another record high.

Revelations about the US government’s vast data collection programs have already started hurting American technology firms, according to an industry survey released this week.

US social network giant Facebook said Monday it has surpassed 100 million users a month using an application designed for “simple” mobile phones widely used in developing nations.

The international community must wake up to the reality of cyberwar and strive to find ways to stem it, the head of the UN’s telecommunications agency said Monday.

Apple said Monday it would investigate claims that an iPhone electrocuted a Chinese woman who was making a call while charging the device.