A rare bit of good news for BlackBerry amid all the bad: The company's new next-generation mobile platform has won NATO security clearance. BlackBerry said Tuesday that its BlackBerry 10 smartphones and ...

Facebook already sells ads that help developers get their apps installed. Now it says it can help them get used.

Watching how consumers use data on their devices in order to improve the experience.

The company, which had been a big backer of the Alliance for Wireless Power, has also joined the two other major wireless charging efforts.

"I can promise you that I'm not going away until they hear a lot more from me concerning this."

Computing company Dell said today that it had cleared all the regulatory hurdles necessary to complete the transaction to go private. Shareholders approved the move to sell the company to CEO Michael Dell ...

JP Colaco ran sales at the video site -- and was one of the last remaining members of its original core team.

In her new position, the entrepreneur in residence will focus on collaborative consumption startups.

Activist investor Carl Icahn's dinner with Tim Cook could end up costing Apple $150 billion.

As online marketing budgets soar, fraudsters skim millions with "botnets."

Facebook has a new executive running its U.S. sales team: David Lawenda, who ran sales at Univision for five years until he left last summer, will report to sales boss Carolyn Everson. Lawenda fills a ...

More management changes at the New York Internet giant.

Weather prediction? Yes. Health-care enrollment? Yes. Tweeting about food safety? Not so much.

At least initially, customers will have to be okay with using a single smartphone option -- a two-year-old refurbished WiMax device from HTC.

Prem Watsa's consortium offered $9 per share for BlackBerry. But will it actually pay that?

The service that should reach tens of thousands of customers in Austin will be ready by December, with more neighborhoods planned for next year. Other cities could follow.

A big vote of confidence for the mobile POS upstart.

The carrier says it was a software bug rather than a policy shift that allowed the upgrades, but said it will honor the unlimited plans of anyone who managed to score an upgrade.

If the project mantra is “stand up, rinse and repeat,” it’s the “repeat” part that proves challenging.

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Sources say the departures are related to the June hiring of former Oracle exec Keith Block as president and vice chairman.

The company, which uses a series of tiny mirrors to project a virtual display onto the retina, plans to debut a prototype consumer device next month.

Facebook on Monday announced it would expand its Graph Search product to return results from multiple types of posts -- including status updates, photo captions, check-ins and others -- in an expansion ...

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The two companies end their relationship amicably.

You can't call it cord-cutting. Maybe cord-cutting light?

After halting it without explanation last week, Apple is once again offering a Personal Pickup option for aspiring buyers of its iPhone 5s. The service, which allows customers to purchase the device online ...

The airline will use the tablets to replace the bulky paper manuals typically used on planes, a move that it estimated will cut $13 million per year in fuel costs.

A new C-level exec for the app analytics and ads company.

Still looking for the bottom of the PC market.

Twitch, an online video network and gaming community, announced that it has raised a $20 million series C round of funding. The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from WestSummit Capital ...

Believe it or not, there was a time when most people didn't "self-search." Those days are gone.

The tech giants passed up former No. 1 brand Coca-Cola to top Interbrand's annual rankings.

A fresh attempt to recreate the company's old subscription magic.

The biggest stories in tech this week.

Two athletes come to terms with the massive gaming company in ongoing litigation.

PowerbyProxi's wireless-charging system is designed to allow multiple devices to be placed on a single charger, and permits more flexibility in how the devices are positioned.

Former telecommunications company chief executive Joseph Nacchio entered prison in 2009 out of shape, depressed and anxious. Fifty-four months later, Mr. Nacchio, 64 years old, who once ran Qwest Communications ...

Complete with a "Dirty Dancing" sendoff soundtrack.

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Thinking about boards makes entrepreneurs imagine spending hours drafting lengthy board presentations and potentially losing control of their startups.

Facebook on Friday announced a slight change to its News Feed algorithm that aims to give greater weight to user feedback on undesirable ads. From now on, Facebook will try to show more relevant advertisements ...

The big media exec has been the one of the most interesting and well known in Silicon Valley, having made many efforts to reach out to the tech digerati.

The troubled Taiwanese phone maker will get a reported $265 million for its remaining 25 percent stake in Beats.

Michael Barrett, the former Admeld CEO and Yahoo chief revenue officer, has been named to the board of Tremor Video, the video ad network that went public in June. Barrett, who also recently joined the ...

Both companies have "new devices" teams that are looking for ways to expand their heritage into computing's latest frontier.

Next up: A deal to go private?