Industry

Twitter harpooned, Internet survives (just barely)

App developers stung by Twitter’s DOS woes

Efforts to mitigate the attacks had a harmful knock-on effect for external developers

New gov’t cyber guidelines lacking, group says

Many government systems won't be protected from sophisticated hackers, the cyber group says

Outsourcer: A ‘global citizen’ will emerge

Increasing language enrollments may signal future U.S. workers to apply for jobs in San Francisco, Delhi and Dubai

China’s Alibaba to target U.S. with ad campaign

The move is the latest sign of Alibaba's ambitions overseas

IBM union: Layoffs could hit 16,000 by year’s end

IBM's job cuts, in most cases, appear incremental and regular

Microsoft to charge Office Live customers domain-renewal fee

The company has changed its policy for small-business users that signed up to the hosted service before last February

NASA: Hunt for Earth-like planets is on

Kepler space telescope passes first big test, ready to search the universe

NASA adds $50M program to develop commercial space systems

Commercial Crew and Cargo Program looks to develop and demonstrate safe, reliable, and cost-effective capabilities to transport cargo and eventually crew to low-Earth orbit

Lenovo sales recover, but still under pressure in Q2

Rising component costs and weak enterprise demand have hit the company, executives said