Despite the increase, it is a slowdown from 7.7% growth in the final quarter of last year.

Stop investing in dirty fossil fuels and rapidly shift to renewable energy to prevent dangerous climate change - this was the message from Sunday's long-awaited UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After a public meeting on Tuesday, April 15 in Palm Desert, California, the California Energy Commission (CEC) will vote, on Wednesday, in Sacramento on whether or not to re-permit a 500-megawatt solar thermal project that has been on hold since December.

Google has filed a patent application to embed miniature cameras into contact lenses which could help the blind

Comcast customers are seeing a big boost in streaming video speed after a deal between Netflix and the broadband giant

Web ad giant Google will buy Titan Aerospace, presumably to help it cover the world in internet connectivity beamed from drones and balloons.

Retailers say sales were up 1.1% in March, the biggest rise since September 2012 and beating analysts' forecasts.

Apple has only "60 days left to either come up with [an iWatch] or they will disappear," analyst Trip Chowdhry told CNBC last month. "It will become a zombie, if they don't come up with an iWatch."

Over two decades ago, I was in a theme park near London and in a small room tucked out of the way and with a far smaller queue than any of the vomit-inducing rides outside, sat two large seats with computers built into them.

Samsung brought in heavyweight champion Google to fight in its corner in its latest patent bout with Apple in the US on Friday.

Huawei has announced the appointment of Xu Wenwei (William Xu) as chief strategy marketing officer, Ding Yun (Ryan Ding) as president of Products & Solutions, Zou Zhilei as vice president of the Carrier Business Group and Yan Lida as vice president of the Enterprise Business Group.

Google could come to Samsung Electronics' defense against Apple during their new patent trial that started Friday.

Four researchers working separately have demonstrated a server's private encryption key can be obtained using the Heartbleed bug.

A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.

The United Nations Environment Programme has today unveiled a major report on global green energy investment for 2013 - BusinessGreen highlights its key findings.

Renewable energy is generating a greater share of the world's electricity than ever before, as costs fall and profitability rises, according to a report released Monday.

Intel will expand its Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect platform with the addition of Ethernet networking support.

Nokia has won approval from Chinese competition authorities to sell its mobile phone business to Microsoft without having to change its main technology patent practices, it said on Tuesday.

The Korean electronics giant is weeks away from delivering 28 inches of Ultra HD goodness at a price that should continue the march toward mainstream 4K adoption.