Children as young as 11 years old have been using programming skills to write malicious code to steal data, a security company warns.

Business-focused social networking website LinkedIn's quarterly profits were double expectations, sending shares up 10% in after hours' trading.

An activist shareholder is demanding Apple share out more of its $137bn (£87bn) cash pile to its investors.

Profits at the New York Times triple as a surge in the newspaper's online subscriptions more than offsets weak demand for advertising space.

Cross-border co-operation on terrorism and crime will be compromised unless the UK updates the technology it uses for DNA profiling, experts warn.

A South Korean YouTube parody of Les Miserables - featuring snow-shovelling airmen, a cruel senior officer and a love struck conscript - becomes an online hit.

A computer hacker steals personal emails and photographs belonging to former US President George H W Bush and his family, US media report.

UK toymaker Games Workshop has been criticised for asserting a trademark claim to the phrase 'space marine'.