Regulators to Google: You can buy Motorola, but we still don't trust you
Google got exactly what it needed today to close the book on its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. With approval from both US and European authorities, Google is set to acquire one of t...
MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course
MIT is creating an online “MITx”, offering courses to students anywhere in the world. Pic: Jon Fildes — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world's top-rated universities, has a...
Apple, Suppliers Test Tablet With Smaller Screen
By By LORRAINE LUK in Taipei and JESSICA E. VASCELLARO in San Francisco — TAIPEI-Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a smaller screen, people fa...
Proview Asks China Customs to Stop IPad Imports, Exports
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Proview International Holdings Ltd., which claims ownership of the iPad trademark in China, is asking the nation's customs bureau to block imports and exports of Apple Inc.'s tab...
Online Payments Startup WePay Grows Revenue By Ten-Fold In 2011; Will Launch Mobile Apps This Year
Online payments platform and PayPal competitor WePay is announcing its growth data for 2011, and revealing details on the startup's product strategy for 2012.
Apple's Foxconn Auditing Group ‘Surrounded With Controversy,’ Critics Say
Following ongoing public outcry and organized protests at Apple stores last week, Apple has announced that an organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting independent assessments of wo...
Why You'll Probably Never Own A Mac With An ARM Processor [Feature]
Ever since Apple launched the new MacBook Air, analysts and Mac fans alike have gone wild speculating that Cupertino might dump Intel and use custom-made, ARM-based chips in their laptop line instead.
Apple Chief Unveils a New Product: Himself
When he was alive, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's former chief executive, treated investors as if they were biohazards, rarely deigning to meet with them. The disdain was not mutual, as an Apple stock chart...
Clear: Why This Simple To Do List App Has Everyone Talking
Clear, the heavily-anticipated touch-based to-do list app, is launching in the iTunes App Store tonight. And by heavily anticipated, I mean this app was getting tech blog coverage based on demos, pre...
Exclusive: HTC rumored to be working on a streaming music service
HTC Corp., one of the earliest champions of Android-based smartphones seems to have fallen on hard times, thanks to growing power of Samsung and Apple. But the Taiwanese phone maker isn't ready to ca...
Apple Slashes iAd Pricing Again as Mobile Ad Share Declines
Moves Are Reaction to Competition From Google and Realities of Mobile-Ad Market — Apple is once again slashing the minimum amount it charges advertisers to run a campaign on its iAd mobile ad system...
Siri leaks her own upcoming ability to speak Japanese
Siri is many things, but it seems she is not a good secret keeper. A few tipsters reached out and told us that Siri now speaks Japanese. Rumors earlier this month said Apple's AI speech recognition ...