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Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to sell 1,500 mobile technology patents to China-based Xiaomi, in a deal that will expand both companies' access to new markets ...

The digital media world was abuzz last week when news surfaced that billionaire Peter Thiel, one of PayPal's cofounders, had provided financial backing for a defamation lawsuit against Gawker Media. ...

A coalition of technology companies and advocacy groups earlier this week wrote to the Federal Communications Commission, urging it to open a public investigation into zero-rating practices, in which mobile providers allow some video or music providers to be excluded from data caps ...

Facebook this week said it would make several procedural changes to its Trending Topics feature to quell concerns that the results could be steered in a particular political direction, even though it has found no evidence of bias. ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to streamline its smartphone business by cutting 1,850 jobs. It will record an impairment charge of US$950 million, with severance payments accounting for $200 million of the charge ...

It took a hacker just a day to come up with a workaround for the platform update Oculus released last week, which blocked users from running the company's games on rival virtual reality systems ...

Bids for Yahoo's core assets were expected to come in at between US$2 billion and $3 billion, far below prior estimates that it could fetch $4 billion to $8 billion at auction, The Wall Street Journal reported last week ...

Microsoft last week announced plans to crack down on terrorist content, perhaps in response to the Obama administration's intense effort to get Silicon Valley's help in preventing organizations like ISIS from using social media as a recruiting and fundraising tool ...

The Hyperloop -- the high-speed transportation concept Elon Musk has promoted heavily -- is edging closer to becoming a reality ...

Google on Thursday filed an appeal with France's supreme administrative court over an order from a privacy regulator requiring it to scrub certain search results around the world under a law called "the right to be forgotten." ...

Nokia on Wednesday announced its return to the mobile phone and tablet business in connection with a larger agreement by Microsoft to sell its entry-level phone business toHMD Global andFIH Mobile for US$350 million ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company's annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday with a keynote address that included previews of a batch of new products. Among those showcased were Google Assistant, a tool that can understand and respond to complex questions in real time; and Home, Google's highly anticipated response to Amazon's Echo speaker.

In an effort to better monetize its platform and boost user traffic, Twitter may relax the 140-character limit on individual tweets by no longer counting photos and Web links, Bloomberg reported earlier this week ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invited a group of 15 media executives and right-leaning pundits, including talk show host Glenn Beck, to meet with him Wednesday to discuss accusations that the social media network biased it's trending news topics to omit conservative viewpoints. ...

Microsoft and SAP on Tuesday announced plans to integrate their respective cloud-based systems, allowing the SAP HANA database to work with Microsoft Azure, which will enable Office 365 to communicate directly with SAP enterprise apps. ...

AT&T on Monday announced that it has agreed to buyQuickplay Media, which will serve as the backbone for DirecTV's upcoming multiplatform streaming video services ...

AT&T on Monday announced that it has agreed to buyQuickplay Media, which will serve as the backbone for DirecTV's upcoming multiplatform streaming video services ...

AT&T on Monday announced that it has agreed to buyQuickplay Media, which will serve as the backbone for DirecTV's upcoming multiplatform streaming video services ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday met with executives fromDidi Chuxing, just days after the company announced that it had received a US$1 billion investment from Apple ...

Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable last week announced that California regulators approved their planned merger following a series of hearings in which the companies agreed to open access to underserved communities ...