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(Reuters) - Google Inc said it would shut down its three-dimensional virtual experience website by year end to focus more on its core search, advertisements and applications business.

TELSTRA workers are voting on whether to take urgent industrial action over pay claims.

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Who said bras are only for women? A Japanese online lingerie retailer is selling bras for cross-dressing men and they've quickly become one of its most popular items.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News has made a big pitch to the Facebook generation, offering users of the social-networking site the chance to test their knowledge using video from the network's vast archives.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.

In the tech industry, holiday parties aren't getting canceled left and right in the face of cost-cutting, but things are certainly being done differently this year.

Report: Christmas comes early for Yahoo. internet search pioneer finds a buyer for its online comparison shopping site Kelkoo.

Christmas comes early for Yahoo, according to a TechCrunch report, as the ailing internet search company sells its comparison-shopping to Jamplant.

Apple has issued a software update for the iPhone that includes Google Street View, an application that does not yet cover the UK.