China's largest search engine, Baidu, will buy a Chinese app store firm for $1.9bn, as it looks to compete in the lucrative telecommunications industry.

UK engineers will build one of the key instruments on Europe's next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, the science minister David Willetts is due to announce.

Online dating company Cupid agrees to sell its "casual dating" business to a firm run by one of its co-founders in a £45.1m deal.

The BBC announces plans to launch five new high definition channels by early 2014.

LJ Rich explores just how hard it can be to "do it yourself" by doing it herself

Websites that profit from piracy are being targeted by an initiative that aims to cut off the cash they get from adverts.

In a virtual world adults in a child-like body start to perceive the world more like a child, a new study shows.

Details of the official justification for the US National Security Agency's wide-ranging Prism surveillance programme look set to be revealed.