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Amazon Unveils Fire TV Streaming Device

Amazon is making a bid to enter living rooms with Amazon Fire TV, a new streaming device that delivers online video, music and other content to televisions. The company says…

Microsoft Reveals Siri-Like Windows Phone Feature

Microsoft is showcasing a new virtual assistant as part of an upcoming update for Windows phones. The assistant, named Cortana, tries to be chatty like Siri on Apple’s iPhones and…

Here’s More Evidence That the iPhone 6 Will Have a Larger Screen

Apple suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched this autumn, with a 4.7-inch screen likely to be produced first…

Apple Seeks Decisive U.S. Court Ruling Against Samsung

Apple and Samsung faced off once again in their long-running courtroom battle, with the iPhone maker asking jurors to award more than $2 billion for patent violations and Samsung trying to cast…

Renesas has Talked with Apple, Others on Chip Unit Sale

Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp has talked with several companies, including Apple Inc, on a possible sale of its display chip design unit, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The source…

Judge Tosses Man’s Claim of Ownership of Facebook

A federal judge has officially closed the book on a New York man’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half-ownership of Facebook. Judge Richard Arcara has granted Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg’s motion…

Windows 8 Updates Expected at Microsoft Conference

Microsoft is following through on a promise to update its Windows 8 operating system on a regular basis to respond to consumers’ complaints and other feedback. Just months after the…

Pasadena Mobile Games Developer Industrial Toys Raises $5 Million

Mobile games developer Industrial Toys has raised $5 million in a round of funding led by Accel Partners. As part of the financing, the Pasadena company is also announcing the…

New iPhone 6 Screens to Enter Production as Early as May

Apple Inc suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched this autumn, with a 4.7-inch screen likely to be produced first…

Yahoo in Talks to Buy News Distribution Network for $300 Million

Yahoo Inc is in preliminary talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for $300 million, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. The deal could…

Parents Get Do-Over for In-App Purchases by Kids

Although Seana Mulcahy considers herself tech savvy, she was thrown a bit when her 8-year-old son Logan not once, but twice, ran up charges using apps downloaded from iTunes Store….

European Consumer Group Joins Case Against Google

Europe’s leading consumer rights advocacy group has joined an antitrust complaint against Google because it considers the display of some search results biased. The BEUC will join an existing group…

Blackberry Wins Ruling Against iPhone Keyboard

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has won an early round in its legal battle against an iPhone keyboard made by a startup co-founded by “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest. A court…

Intel Invested $740 Million to Buy 18 Percent of Cloudera

Intel Corp’s investment in Cloudera announced last week amounts to $740 million and gives the chipmaker an 18 percent stake in the distributor of software for crunching Big Data, Cloudera said in…

Oculus Adds to Executive Team

One shock for virtual reality enthusiasts in one week wasn’t enough. Oculus VR announced Friday it was adding Michael Abrash as its chief scientist, three days after the Irvine company…