Japan's Rakuten paying $900 mn for Cypriot app-makerRakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall operator, said Friday it would buy Cyprus-based application maker Viber Media for $900 million, as its expands an overseas empire that includes Canadian e-reader company Kobo.
14 February 2014
China's Lenovo aims for third in global smartphone marketThe chairman of Chinese computer giant Lenovo pledged Thursday to make the company the world's third-biggest smartphone seller following an acquisition binge as the firm announced a 30 percent profit surge.
13 February 2014
Yahoo buys smartphone diary-app maker WanderYahoo on Tuesday added the startup behind smartphone visual diary-app Days to its list of acquisitions as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to pump new life into the aging Internet pioneer.
12 February 2014
Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with LenovoGoogle agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker it bought for $12.5 billion.
BlackBerry shares lifted by big Pentagon contractBlackBerry shares leapt more than nine percent Tuesday as the troubled Canadian smartphone maker got a boost from news of contract to supply the US military with 80,000 new handsets.
22 January 2014
LG to launch curved smartphone in EuropeSouth Korea's LG Electronics will start selling its first curved-screen smartphone -- seen as a first step to fully flexible products -- in Europe next month .
CES stage set for new wave of gadgetsAs spending on gadgets flattens in a world obsessed with smartphones and tablets, the Consumer Electronics Show here hopes to be a launch pad for a new must-have device.
Blackberry sues company for violating keyboard patentBlackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple's iPhone.
Apple wins court battle against SamsungSouth Korea's Samsung on Thursday lost its latest claim in a long-running global copyright battle against bitter rival Apple, a surprise blow to the electronics giant in its home market.
12 December 2013
Twitter adds photo sharing to direct messagesUpdated mobile software rolled out Tuesday by Twitter lets smartphone users send pictures in direct, personal messages seen only by recipients instead of being shared publicly on the social network.
12 December 2013
Smartphone app to give earthquake warningA smartphone app designed to give early warning of earthquakes could be ready as early as next year, according to scientists at the World Science Forum in Rio de Janeiro.
30 November 2013
Apple awarded $290 mln in Samsung patent caseA US federal jury Thursday ordered Samsung to pay $290 million in damages to Apple in a partial retrial of a blockbuster patent case involving the two smartphone giants.