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Aussie-based messaging platform Atmail today announced the opening of its first United States office, in the unusual location of Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

Tech titan Google is the master of Web search but is quickly also becoming the master of acquisitions, announcing on Friday it has picked Jetpac Inc, a San Francisco-based travel guide startup.

Enterprise software and IT services company Tigerspike has appointed an Australian-based CEO to head up the company’s global operations.

Wi-Fi supplier Ruckus has announced major municipal deployments in San Francisco and San Jose. They may be blueprints for Australian networks.

Google is facing a steadily building backlash against its Glass devices, with a San Francisco-based journalist the latest Google Glass wearer to be phyiscally attacked for wearing the gadget.

SAS has appointed 20-year industry veteran Greg Scholten as General Manager Solutions OnDemand for Australia and New Zealand.

Australian e-commerce platform Bigcommerce has opened a San Francisco office and hired its first Silicon Valley staff as it sets itself for what it says will be a period of “accelerated growth” just over six months after closing a $40 million investment round.

Search giant Google has dug into its pockets to purchase Nest, a California-based thermostat startup, for a cool US$3.2 billion in cash.

The ongoing tension between Silicon Valley's haves and have-nots came to a head yesterday when a group of rowdy protestors stopped a bus full of Google employees.

US mobile carriers have rejected a smartphone “kill switch” that would disable a phone as soon as its stolen, with government officials accusing companies of “shaking down” customers for billions of dollars in insurance costs.

Apple is set to unveil a new line of iPads at an invite-only event later this month if rumours are to be believed.

Facebook shares rose more than 3% on Wednesday to hit an all time high, valuing the social network at US$106 billion.

While all the talk has been around Intel's all-powerful Haswell chips, future Android tablets with new Atom chips will be as low as $100, Intel said today.

It's no big secret that Facebook is changing the way we socialise, but one company is hoping to use it to rid the world of awkward greeting cards for good.

Samsung will hold its own developers conference in San Francisco this October, after rivals Apple and Microsoft, along with Google, all held their own respective conferences earlier in the year.

A San Franciscan startup is in the process of making a facial recognition API to recognize faces with Google Glass, raising fresh privacy concerns for the device.

According to multiple sources, the next iPad will NOT be called the iPad 3.

DARPA recently ran a competition to 'recover' a suite of shredded documents.  Here's how it went.

Apple's iPhone 4 was lost and found in a bar, and now comes a report that the iPhone 5 was lost in a bar in July too - making us wonder whether Apple should bar its employees from taking ever taking unreleased iPhones to bars - or anywhere else they might so very easily be lost.