Technology

Samsung’s mobile boss JK Shin confirmed to reporters that the South Korea-based consumer electronics giant is making new efforts to end its patent war with Apple.

Google says, “users will be fully transitioned to Google Drive, with no ability to opt out.” Overall, Google expects the transition from what it calls the “Google Documents List” to Google Drive by late summer 2012.

Beginning June 4, Hulu will premiere three original series and seven exclusively licensed television shows previously unavailable to U.S. audiences.

Just days after wrapping up the biggest initial public offering in Silicon Valley history, shares of Facebook slipped below their issue price on Monday, a troubling signal for the newly-public social network.

The European Union's antitrust chief ratcheted up the pressure on Google, giving it a matter of weeks to settle an investigation into allegations of anti-competitive behavior and avoid formal charges and a possible fine.

Facebook’s stock price plunged nearly 8% on Monday following its choppy public debut last week.

Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40% stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo for $7.1 billion.

Several major cable companies, including Time Warner Cable and Comcast, have agreed to enable each other's high-speed Internet customers to access metro wireless hotpots outside of their home markets.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will review the Nasdaq trading glitches surrounding the initial public offering of Facebook on Friday, an agency spokesman said.

Silicon Valley is experiencing a bit of an economic boom thanks to Facebook’s $104 billion IPO creating new millionaires.

Facebook now faces by one count more than a dozen US federal, state and foreign regulatory agencies, not to mention a hyperactive U.S. securities bar ready to sue over privacy issues.

The success of bringing Sheryl Sandberg on board as Facebook's experienced chief operating officer to guide an immature founding CEO will likely prompt other evolving tech companies to consider it as a model.

Facebook's shares met with mixed reviews in their long-awaited debut, closing for the day up just 23 cents or less than 1%. Analysts cited the massive scale of the deal for the lack of 'pop.' Volume broke records.

A Wall Street regulator is reportedly looking into an unusually large surge in Groupon’s shares earlier this week immediately before the daily deals site unveiled bullish quarterly results.

The world's No. 1 online social network priced its offering at $38 a share, but the price could be higher when shares begin trading on the Nasdaq this morning.

Verizon plans to make data-hungry customers pay a lot more, either in service fees or phone prices, as it tries to cut costs from data services.

Facebook priced 421.2 million shares at $38 each, at the high end of its proposed price range.

A byproduct of Facebook's success is that millions are far more exposed to a number of cyber crimes that also teem on the site.

With Facebook's frenzied IPO headed toward a huge first-day pop, Mark Zuckerberg is poised to shoot up the list of the wealthiest people.

Hewlett-Packard is considering cutting its workforce by 8 to 10%, or a minimum of 25,000 jobs, sources told Reuters.

Sprint’s costly $15.5 billion gamble on Apple’s iPhone won’t pay off until 2015, according to CEO Dan Hesse. 

D.C. is all fired up over Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's decision to give up his U.S. citizenship in advance of the company's initial public offering.

Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million from a group of investors led by Japanese online retailing giant Rakuten Inc in a deal that reportedly values the three-year-old U.S. company at $1.5 billion.

Troubles at Finland's Nokia Oyj aren't just bad news for the company, its staff and shareholders. They're also a warning sign for the small Nordic country's welfare model.

Apple will struggle to cut its reliance on rival Samsung for component supplies, analysts and industry sources said, despite speculation that it has begun reducing its use of Samsung memory chips.

Just days before Facebook’s highly-anticipated initial public offering, some investors are now fearing an exodus of some of Facebook’s biggest advertisers if Mark Zuckerberg fails to get serious about advertising. 

Tired of bloatware slowing down the PCs you buy? You've probably never heard of it, but an offering from Microsoft could save you a lot of frustration.

More than 70% of users spend little to nothing on mobile apps, while the highest 3% of all spenders account for nearly 20% of the total amount spent.

As Facebook puts the finishing touches on the biggest debut in Silicon Valley history, a new report shows the social network trails many rivals in the key category of trust.

Though the announcement that the auto giant will pull its paid advertising from Facebook is unlikely to seriously undermine the latter’s upcoming IPO, it surely will cast a shadow over the much-hyped event.

Apple has reportedly begun to place orders for 4-inch display screens from suppliers in South Korea and Japan for its newest iPhone.

Just a day after hiking the price for its initial public offering, Facebook ramped up the size of its record-shattering IPO on Wednesday by close to 25% in a further sign of robust demand to get a piece of the social-networking leader.

Samsung snatched the title of world's largest mobile handset vendor from Nokia in the first three months of the year, confirming Nokia's continued decline as it struggles to keep pace with fast moving competition.

HTC said the launch of a new smartphone in the U.S. will be delayed, due to a customs review required after the International Trade Commission ruled late last year that the Taiwanese handset maker has violated a patent held by Apple.

China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom carrier by subscribers, said on Wednesday it is negotiating with Apple Inc to carry the popular iPhone in China.

T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest U.S. mobile provider, said it is cutting another 900 jobs.

Nvidia said it plans to begin offering technology that will allow its chips to be shared by multiple devices over the Internet as it attempts to expand the market for its graphics processors.

In a move that underscores persistent skepticism about Facebook’s advertising model, GM reportedly plans to stop buying ads on the site.