On Thursday, billionaire and top Dell investor Carl Icahn filed a lawsuit against Dell's founder Michael Dell and financial backer Silver Lake Partners, to prevent the proposal of taking the company private.

According to a recent report at Atlantic Media-owned business news site Quartz, Internet search giant Google is currently carrying out tests of a local news product as part of its Google Now service, which is a built-in service in all new Android handsets and is available on the iPhone via the Google Search app.

In a Sunday announcement underscoring an executive switch at Apple, the company has revealed that its SVP of Technologies, Bob Mansfield, is being shifted out of the executive team to work on CEO Tim Cook's `special projects' team.

According to a recent update on the new "system status" page on tech giant Apple's developer site, which the company took down on Thursday, July 18, most of the key parts of the site have been brought back online after over one week of downtime.