Red Cross donations made by texting reach US$5 million, as the campaign to raise money for Haiti relief efforts goes viral in an always-connected society.

Toyota Motor aims to double its global output of gas-electric hybrid cars to one million units in 2011, as it fights to stay in the lead in the growing market for low-emission cars.

Spansion has reported net sales of US$307.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2009, which marked its second consecutive profitable quarter with net income on a US GAAP basis of US$4.3 million.

Eastman Kodak hopes to illuminate a clearer picture about its photo-viewing technology. It has alleged that Apple's iPhones and RIM's camera-enabled BlackBerry devices violate its patent for digital image previewing.

Intel may look to acquire an FPGA supplier such as Xilinx or Altera in 2010 in an effort to expand its presence in the embedded market as well as SoCs, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Carmakers emerging from a savage crisis hope to lure drivers to electric cars in the coming years, but cost, range and safety considerations mean many are still cautious, holding back from predicting an early sales boom.

Yahoo has given its support to rival Google, denouncing an alleged cyber attack originating in China against Google's network infrastructure.

The settlement could lead to improved cameras in Samsung mobile phones.

Internet giant Google has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.

The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language, has announced that "tweet" is the top word of 2009, and "Google" - the verb, not the noun - is the top word of the past decade.