Over 3,600 customers have already chosen Orange Business Services cloud computing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2,500 small business customers for Cloud Pro, a suite of online services launched in June 2011.

New TrueSuite® Identity Management Software and Eikon® Fingerprint Reader Provide Enhanced Security and Functionality on Apple Platforms Based on OS X Lion and Snow Leopard

eBay Motors today announced new updates to the eBay Motors iPhone® app, available for immediate download on iTunes, with features including taking a picture of a vehicle to instantly search for it on eBay, and streaming live, exclusive content.

WPP announces that JWT, its wholly-owned global advertising and company, has acquired 51% of the shares in the capital of a newly incorporated Jordanian company which will acquire the assets of IDEA, a full service marketing communications company in Amman, Jordan, which has been JWT's affiliate for the past 7 years.

Audi Chairman Rupert Stadler strongly advocates a common economic and finance policy in Europe at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “From a global perspective, only a united Europe will be competitive in the long run.” Representatives from business, politics and science are meeting for the 42nd time in the Swiss winter resort to discuss a better future.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today renewed its commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Announced at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, the Gates Foundation is giving US$ 750 million through a promissory note – a new and innovative funding mechanism.

Nokia today announced that Marko Ahtisaari has been appointed Executive Vice President, Design, and a member of the Nokia Leadership Team, effective February 1, 2012. He reports directly to President and CEO Stephen Elop.

PENTAX RICOH IMAGING AMERICAS CORPORATION announced the Optio VS20 digital compact camera today. This versatile model features a high-power 20X optical zoom lens (28-560mm equivalent) and a second vertical shutter-release button with zoom lever for effortless portrait-oriented shooting.

NVIDIA today released a new version of its CUDA parallel computing platform, which will make it easier for computational biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, other researchers, and engineers to advance their simulations and computational work by using GPUs.

Recon Instruments, award winning innovator of Micro Optics Display (MOD) technology for action sport athletes, today launched the Camera Connectivity application for MOD Live and announced a partnership with Contour, leader in making it easy to capture and share epic moments with hands- free video.

RealNetworks, Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell a significant number of its patents and its next generation video codec software to Intel Corporation for a purchase price of $120 million. Under terms of the sale, RealNetworks retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.

HP today began executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform's source code available under an open source license.

New two-year sponsorship will support key bicycling projects as part of Volkswagen’s Think Blue.® initiative to promote sustainable mobility and environmentally conscious lifestyles

Charging large numbers of iPads, iPhones and iPods is a challenge for many schools, businesses and other organizations. A new 16-port professional USB charging station now makes this possible.

Verizon has expanded its global enterprise network platform, enabling multinational corporations to take advantage of Verizon’s Private IP service in six additional African countries, and Bahrain and Qatar in the Middle East.

America's number-one premium subscription music service is off to a strong start in Europe, by acquiring Napster businesses in Germany and the UK

BeachMint announced today that it has raised $35 million in financing from leading venture capital firm, Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures, Millenium Technology Value Partners, and NALA. Existing investors participating in the round include NEA, Trinity Ventures and Scale Ventures.

Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN – News), today announced the AWS Storage Gateway, a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload data to the AWS cloud for scalable, reliable, cost-effective storage.

International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its predictions for the European software industry and social, big data, and consumerization of IT will all leave their footprint on the industry, which will experience moderate growth of 3.1% in 2012.

A new study by Deloitte for Facebook has shown that in 2011 Facebook supported 35,200 jobs in the UK and contributed an estimated €2.6 billion to the economy.