From PC World: Facebook’s US$19 billion bid for WhatsApp won the approval of European Union competition regulator on Friday.

“We have carefully reviewed this proposed acquisition and come to the conclusion that it would not hamper competition,” European Commission Vice President in charge of...

From CNET: Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus scooped up 4 million reservations in China by Friday, according to Chinese media estimates cited by Fortune.

A single e-commerce site called Jingdong is responsible for 2.3 million reservations, Fortune reported, citing Chinese website Tencent.

The new...

From DailyTech: The latest operating system market share numbers from Net Applications reveal that Windows 8.x is still struggling to match the pace set by its predecessor, Windows 7. For the month of September, Windows 8’s global market share stood at 5.59 percent while Windows 8.1 had a slightly...

From PC World: Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish company behind mobile game hit Angry Birds, will lay off up to 130 people in its home country.

The company will be laying off about 16 percent of its workforce, Rovio’s CEO Mikael Hed said Thursday.

“We have been building our team on assumptions of...

From CNET: Verizon Wireless customers with a grandfathered unlimited data plan can breath a sigh of relief.

The nation's largest wireless carrier by subscriber base said Wednesday that it would no longer go through with its "network optimization" policy, which was its plan to limit the data speeds...

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, it was revealed that LG has a call-capable smartwatch in development that would follow the existing G Watch and G Watch R. At the time, we surmised that the device would likely continue to use the Android Wear operating system, but it looks like a new challenger...

From PC World: Remember back in June when we told you about a Firefox OS-powered HDTV dongle that was in the works? Well, the device is almost here and it's called Matchstick, according to a blog post on Mozilla's site.

The new dongle is not the work of Mozilla, but the project does have the...

From CNET: Google will soon offer a big perk -- unlimited data storage -- to lure schools and their students to its Google Apps suite of online services.

The Google Drive for Education is an upgrade from the earlier Google Apps for Education service, and like the predecessor, it's free. It will...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has been working on its successor to Windows 8.x, internally labeling the operating system Windows Threshold. Today, Microsoft has announced the official name of the shipping product: Windows 10.

We had been hoping for more “togetherness”, with perhaps “Windows One” being...

From InfoWorld: Lenovo plans on releasing new Yoga tablets and hybrids in time for the end-of-year holiday season, with actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher having a hand in the design and development of the products.

The "innovative and stylish" Yoga products "will become very popular...