Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone company by subscribers, offered to buy the African operations of the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain in a deal valued at about $10.7 billion.

Google is making important changes to Buzz to address criticism from users and privacy advocates.

Vineet Nayar, chief executive of HCL Technologies, says he tries to tell employees “to not look up to me, but to look within.”

One reader tells the Haggler he loves Samsung’s customer service, but two others disagree.

In the battle against harmful germs, researchers are studying room-temperature plasma gases as the next great disinfectants.

Google is taking on the Yellow Pages by courting small businesses. A new service, to highlight listings, costs only $25 a month.

As parts makers add customers like NASA and solar power companies, they are helping to offset the tens of thousands of lost jobs in the auto industry.

Putting the leading tax software programs — TurboTax and H&R Block at Home — through their paces.

Who's behind the popular webcam-shuffle site Chatroulette? Andrey Ternovskiy, who says he is a 17-year-old high school student in Moscow.

EBay was ordered to pay about $316,500 to Louis Vuitton Malletier for legal costs and damages and stop using Internet search terms the luxury goods maker protested.

Online dating doesn't have to be confusing. Analysis by the site OkCupid and tips from experts can help.

Dmitri O. Rogozin has rarely been one for niceties in his two years as Russia’s envoy to NATO headquarters in Brussels, famously hanging a portrait of Stalin in his office when he arrived.

Online dating doesn't have to be as confusing as the final season of "Lost."

Wal-Mart Stores reached an agreement with Live Nation Entertainment to sell tickets to concerts and other events at about 500 stores.

A marketing company removed President Obama’s picture from its online advertisements asserting that a $70 billion financial aid windfall is available to potential college students.

Google has faced a firestorm of criticism on blogs and Web sites, and it has already been forced to alter some features of Buzz, its new social networking service.

OkCupid uses statistical tools to analyze traffic on its dating site and publishes the insights, such as to look intriguing, not just attractive, in your profile picture.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, also urged other companies recently hit by Chinese hackers to speak out.

Several background check apps purport to dig up the dirt on potential partners.

Barbie is outfitted with a binary code T-shirt and hot pink laptop for her latest career as a computer engineer, a job voted on by fans.