From CNET News.com: Electronic Arts is launching a new initiative for gamers to get back money on titles they don't like.

The big-time game publisher has launched what it calls the Origin Great Game Guarantee. The offer allows gamers to receive a full refund on full-game downloads...

From CNET News.com: Google began a slow rollout on Monday of a major update to its YouTube app for Android, with other mobile YouTube app updates coming later.

A Google representative told CNET that the slow rollout was intentional and not a leak of the app's installer file, or APK...

From DailyTech: As HTC continues to sink, Beats Electronics is looking to bail and possibly search for other investors.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Beat Electronics LLC -- the audio products company founded by rapper Dr. Dre -- wants to buy out HTC in their smartphone...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. on Monday introduced the industry’s highest-performing hard disk drive in 2.5”/7mm form-factor. The new Toshiba MQ01ACF drives offer up to 500GB capacity and boast with 7200rpm spindle speed.

The MQ01ACF series is Toshiba’s first 7278rpm, 2.5” product...

From X-bit Labs: Gigabyte Technology, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has announced its new F2A88X-series FM2+ motherboard lineup supporting the forthcoming code-named “Kaveri” accelerated processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices in addition to existing...

From CNET News.com: Yahoo has officially retired its e-mail service in China.

The move comes as no surprise since Yahoo announced it back in April as part of a deal with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. Yahoo has been transitioning more of its key services in China to Alibaba...

From DailyTech: Considering its role as a pioneer of the smartphone, it's somewhat surprising that Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) has never released what is considered by today's standards a true tablet. The OEM did produce a Linux-powered so-called "internet tablet" (the Nokia 770) back in...

From DailyTech: Ubi Interactive -- not to be confused with French game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA (EPA:UBI) -- has risen fast to prominence. From an incubator project sponsored by the Technical University of Munich and the Center for Digital Technology and Management in...

From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that Intel Corp. is working on high-speed optical interconnections for next-generation servers and datacenters and is teaming up with a number of industry leaders, such as Corning, Facebook and Quanta. What was not unknown until very recently is...