Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Washington last week for a series of sit-downs with Congressional leaders. The meetings -- with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ...

T-Mobile aims its $20 Prism at first-time smartphone buyers. But is it worth it to scrimp?

For Research In Motion, summer layoffs are becoming an annual event.

Wait. Cisco had a tablet?

The results may surprise you.

But it was a really nice moving van.

The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it is seeking comment on whether cellphone carriers are adequately securing information being collected on today's smartphones.

Remember when the show couldn't figure out what to do when Lazy Sunday became a YouTube hit? Now it's using the Web to show what didn't even get to TV.

Yahoo has pulled the plug on Livestand, its iPad/tablet news app. Yahoo rolled out the app last fall, and positioned it as competitor to apps like Flipboard and Zite. But the app never got any traction, ...

It's like Pinterest, but you'll actually learn something.

Old-fashioned PCs still make up the lion's share of traffic, with phones and tablet Web use spiking in the evening hours.

Another deal to distance itself from consumer PCs.

How to negotiate, Charlie Ergen-style. Threaten, kind of credibly, to blow everything up.

The 14-year RIM veteran becomes chief commercial officer of the wireless multi-room music system maker.

Bulky? Heavy? Inexpensive? No problem. Amazon has added thousands of items it previously considered too uneconomical to ship.

When was the last time you heard about the CEO of a wildly successful company walking away from millions of dollars that he could have just as easily pocketed?

Just what the team will do is not 100 percent clear, but something to do with Chrome OS seems like a good bet.

Unlike a $3.4 billion acquisition, influence is its own reward.

Pascal Cagni leaves Apple after a 12 year stint as VP and general manager of its European operations.

Actually, it's "Go to H-E-double-toothpicks."

All the deets on the China share sale.

Austin-based Bazaarvoice has agreed to acquire its close competitor PowerReviews for roughly $151.9 million in cash and stock. According to the terms, Bazaarvoice will pay $31 million in cash and the remainder ...

Avoiding a trial in a lawsuit, Apple has taken a license to patents held by Texas-based SimpleAir. Naturally, all of the interesting terms and details are being kept confidential.

File this one under a small talent acquisition: Facebook has just "acqu-hired" a number of employees from Bolt Peters, a so-called research and design agency. Co-founder Nate Bolt says it will ...

Microsoft is not saying when it will be unveiling a new Xbox console, but thanks to a lawsuit between Activision and some former employees, timing details are a little clearer.

The Google+ app for Android finally gets an update, and it's got a feature that might make iPhone users jealous.

It's on!

A court in Germany ruled that Motorola's Android products are infringing on a Microsoft patent related to text messaging, but said that the Google unit is not infringing on another of Redmond's patents....

PayPal is hosting an event at its San Jose headquarters this morning to announce the next batch of retailers that are adopting the company’s in-store payments solution.

Android developers can now charge for apps on a monthly or yearly subscription basis, with Google processing the payments.

Facebook launches a camera app, and it's not Instagram.

Is $1.14 billion an “unnecessary, unlawful and totally disproportionate" fine? Tune in next month.

TrialPay plans to announce today that it is opening a European office in Berlin and adding three new executives to its management team. Managing Director of Europe Rob Schneider, formerly of Zanox, will ...

The turnaround process is about 10 percent to 15 percent complete, CEO Meg Whitman says. That leaves a lot of turning yet to do.

"The days of, 'I only want people to experience me at 11, on TBS' -- those days are over. ... A whole generation is growing up that doesn't watch television that way."

Keep in touch via Facebook, this is critical to your future success. And we’re public now, so can you click on an ad or two when you’re there? – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, speaking at Harvard Business ...

Scoutmob was able to attract $3.25 million in new funding and a major new payments partner by pitching itself as a mobile company and not as a fledgling competitor in the daily deals space.

Paypal is announcing that it has secured partnerships with three of the top point-of-sales providers, giving it access to nearly 40 million terminals worldwide.

Just answer the damn questions, would ya?

Hey now, Yahoo commits an act of innovation!

Two new Siri ads, featuring the same iconic actor. The takeaway: He's got a lot of time on his hands.

Can Congress resist a juicy Facebook IPO hearing? (Of course not -- it's an election year, people!)

The 14-year company veteran is leaving for "a leadership role in another industry," RIM said.

So now the bad news is out. HP will cut about 27,000 jobs over the next two years or so. But CEO Meg Whitman and company are cautiously optimistic about the long haul.

Grab the Dramamine and a life jacket (just in case)!

Good news first. Then come the job cuts.

Google CEO Larry Page is on a public speaking rampage this week.

Warm up your thumbs, AT&T customers. The carrier just announced the Samsung Galaxy Appeal, the first of its GoPhone prepaid smartphones to have a sliding physical keyboard. The Android device also features ...