Taiwan-based fabless chip vendor MediaTek Inc. announced Friday that it had reached a deal with U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. under which the two companies will allow each other to utilize technology covered by their respective patent portfolios.

Taiwan's GreTai Securities Market (GTSM), commonly known as the over-the-counter (OTC) exchange, launched yesterday the online trading service for international bond investment.

Asia's airline industry is pulling out of a slump sparked by the global recession with signs passenger numbers are rising, a regional body said Friday, but there were warnings a rebound will be slow.

Some of the computer-industry's biggest players — such as IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. — have wowed Wall Street this fall with stronger-than-expected profits.

Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.

Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, and a group of authors and publishers won preliminary approval of a revised settlement over the company's plans to make millions of books available online.

Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site.

Suzuki Motor Corp. will end production of vehicles in Taiwan, the company said.

eBay has completed its sale of Skype for about US$2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.