Google has become the U.S. market leader in online display ads, and now leads all categories for Internet advertising including search and mobile, a market research firm said Wednesday.

The firm eMarketer said Google will top the market for online display advertising with $2.31 billion in revenues -- 15.4 percent of the market -- in 2012.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was "disappointed" at a U.S. judge's refusal to lift a ban on U.S. sales of its tablet computer as it fights a long-running global legal battle with arch-rival Apple.

A California jury declared on August 24 that the South Korean electronics giant should pay Apple $1.049 billion in damages for illegally copying iPhone and iPad features for its flagship Galaxy S smartphones.

Sophisticated gameplay and cheap downloads that are fuelling a boom in software for smartphones and tablets were on display Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show, the biggest of its kind in Asia.

Developers from all over the world flocked to the town of Makuhari outside the Japanese capital to showcase their latest offerings as the world readied for Friday's launch of the iPhone 5.

An Australian-led research team said Thursday they had made a technological breakthrough in the race for a quantum supercomputer that could revolutionise data encryption and medicine.

Engineers from Sydney's University of New South Wales said they had created the first working quantum bit or qubit -- the fundamental unit of a quantum supercomputer -- with the findings published in the latest edition of Nature.

At least 19 Japanese websites, including those of a government ministry, courts and a hospital, have come under cyberattack, apparently from China, police said Wednesday.

Many of the websites were altered to show messages proclaiming Chinese sovereignty over the Diaoyu islands, a Japanese-administered chain Tokyo calls Senkaku, the National Police Agency (NPA) said in a statement.

Sony Corp. is introducing a smaller, slimmer and lighter version of its PlayStation 3 home console ahead of the year-end holidays as it gears up for growing competition in games from smartphones.

The announcement Wednesday from the Japanese electronics and entertainment company comes a day ahead of the annual Tokyo Game Show, where game makers show their wares. But the iPhone 5 smartphone from Apple Inc. is hogging much of the attention, already drawing long lines for pre-orders at some retailers, and more lines are expected ahead of Friday's launch.

Twentieth Century Fox, the cinema unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said Tuesday it would offer streaming movies for various devices through Apple's iTunes, Google Play and other services.

The Digital HD project will allow access to new releases before DVDs are issued, "attractive pricing," cloud storage and availability across multiple devices, News Corp. said in a statement.

For the second consecutive year, Cleartag wins the renowned WebAwards for the “Best Bank Website”, a press release said Tuesday.

This year, the award went to Bank Audi’s “Audi Card Artist” website which allows customers to design payment cards, whether for their own use or as special gifts, in an interactive, engaging and personal manner.

For the first time in Lebanon, top marketing professionals from banking, finance, retail, and real estate sectors, amongst others, are to meet with leading digital specialists and highly recognized players in the field, to discuss the future of businesses and corporations in a highly digitalized world.

Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal’s Executive Director, Walid Abou Zaki emphasized the importance of such an event at a time of major transformation in corporate marketing and promotional strategies adding that Beirut is only the first stop for the DGTL#U road show which will subsequently be moving on to Jeddah, Muscat, Riyadh, Kuwait and Doha.

Google has snapped up the digital photo editing service Snapseed as part of its effort to compete against Facebook's online social network.

Snapseed is the centerpiece of Google's acquisition of Nik Software, which developed the service's photo-editing technology.