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• Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs

  By James Niccolai | 20 June, 2013 00:17

  With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.

• Google Project Loon: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Internet!

  By Jon Gold | 17 June, 2013 19:11

  Google engineers are planning to test a system aimed at providing accessible Internet service to parts of the world with insufficient communications infrastructure – a collection of high-flying balloons equipped with specialized radios, dubbed Project Loon.

• Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai

  By Tim Greene | 14 June, 2013 17:05

  Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.

• CEO paychecks: Winners and losers

  By Ann Bednarz | 14 June, 2013 17:04

  The U.S. tech industry has fared well amid the fiscal doom and gloom, and its economic fortitude is reflected in the jumbo pay packages of some tech CEOs.

• Breaking out of “break-fix” mindset brings benefits for MSPs: Kaseya

  By Patrick Budmar | 14 June, 2013 12:15

  Moving from a “break-fix” approach can help managed service providers (MSP) to be more efficient, according to Kaseya.

• IBM in new round of layoffs

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 June, 2013 10:43

  IBM has cut about 1300 employees and more layoffs are possible, according to an employee organisation.

• HP ties knot with Google, as Whitman talks up customers

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 12 June, 2013 11:00

  Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday said it has begun to integrate its hardware and management systems with Google Apps.

• Facebook execs hammered with IPO questions at first shareholder meeting

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 June, 2013 20:27

  At Facebook's first shareholders' meeting, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took it on the chin Tuesday from stockholders unhappy about last year's IPO

• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's 2013 MIT commencement address transcript

  By Network World staff | 07 June, 2013 20:54

  Below is the prepared text of the commencement address by Drew Houston '05, the CEO of Dropbox, for MIT's 147th commencement held June 7, 2013.

• Privacy Act reforms to hit

  By Julia Talevski and Hafizah Osman | 06 June, 2013 09:38

  Significant and costly changes in the Privacy Act, scheduled for March 2014, are set to seriously impact the majority of companies handling personal information.

• ARM chief executive explains his exit

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 04 June, 2013 20:15

  ARM Holdings has done well under CEO Warren East and there was no obvious reason for him to step aside. But by July 1, the new CEO, fellow ARM veteran Simon Segars, will be the new chief executive.

• The next corporate revolution will be power to the peons

  By Lucas Mearian | 04 June, 2013 16:40

  BYOD is only the beginning of a shift away from traditional corporate bureaucracy, as companies begin to realize they have a deep creative asset -- their employee base -- just waiting to be tapped.

• In Pictures: 10 BYOD worker types

  By Tom Kaneshige | 31 May, 2013 08:18

  The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement affects everyone at a company, from CEO on down to the hourly worker. Here are 10 of the most common worker types taking shape in the new BYOD workplace.

• Rude and overworked? Blame tech

  By Ann Bednarz | 29 May, 2013 20:12

  IT execs say employees are getting ruder on the job, and they're blaming technology for the rise in bad manners.

• Even saying nothing, Apple CEO reveals something

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 May, 2013 20:12

  Apple CEO Tim Cook spent more than an hour answering questions at the AllThingsD conference yesterday, but said little that was newsworthy