Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Thursday, were not released. Lexico, …
The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro–apparently as a joke–is back home, according to the Associated Press.
“The child has been returned to his parents,” prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told the AP on Thursday.
The parents had told the …
VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week.
Jim Bidzos
(Credit: VeriSign)
The company said Thursday that William Roper had resigned as of Monday. Roper, who had served as CEO for just over a …
THE body a Brazilian priest who floated off tied to 1000 giant party balloons has been recovered about 100km off the Brazilian coast.
KEVIN Rudd wants all Australians to share the pain of increased costs to help save the planet from climate change - but not himself.
THE new cervical cancer jab is believed to be behind a huge jump in the number of females suffering bad reactions to vaccinations.
A COSMETICS company executive is facing off against her employer in a $500,000 lawsuit over claims she had to work harder than male colleagues.
BUREAUCRATS have drawn up an official list of intoxication symptoms, so pub owners can tell when patrons are drunk.
HARROWING television scenes of Jamie Oliver gassing chicks and electrocuting a chicken have been branded immoral by the RSPCA.
A TAXPAYER-funded magazine has put a naked six-year-old girl on the cover in protest at the “hysteria” over similar Bill Henson images.