From EETimes: Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of smartphones and the second-largest chipmaker, said strength in its semiconductor business offset the impact to its mobile phone business caused by exploding batteries in its flagship Galaxy Note 7 products.

South Korea’s largest...

From AnandTech: Today LG and Apple made a joint product announcement of sorts. Apple announced their new MacBook Pro, which uses four Thunderbolt 3 ports for IO. During the launch event, Apple also noted that LG would be launching a new pair of monitors to go along with the MacBook Pro. These new...

From InfoWorld: Oracle has taken its bid for up to $9 billion in damages to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after a judge in a federal court in California recently struck down its bid for a retrial in a copyright infringement suit against Google over the use of Java code in the...

From CNET: The service, which has amplified the voices of everyone from Katy Perry to Republican nominee Donald Trump, remains a niche player. The company's user growth has flat-lined, and efforts to transform the service into a live-streaming hub have yielded mixed results.

Even Twitter's allure...

From PC World: Friday’s massive internet disruption came from hackers using an estimated 100,000 devices, many of which have been infected with a notorious malware that can take over cameras and DVRs, said DNS provider Dyn.

“We are able to confirm that a significant volume of attack traffic...

From CNET: LG has released its financial figures for Q3 2016 and things don't look too rosy. The electronics giant has reported a $381 million loss in its mobile business, due to "weak sales of G5".

LG's shipped a total of 13.5 million smartphones in the quarter, which is down 9% from the same...

From InfoWorld: Apple recorded its third consecutive quarter of lower revenue as it fought lower demand for the iPhone and tough competition from lower-priced competitors.

Revenue in the quarter, between July and September, was $46.9 billion, down 9 percent on the same period last year and exactly...

From CNET: Didi Chuxing took on Uber in China and won. Now the Chinese ride-hailing goliath expects to do the same around the world, even without home field advantage.

"We believe the expertise we built in China can benefit another market," Jean Liu, Didi Chuxing's president, said Tuesday at the...

From PC World: Google Fiber has paused plans to roll out fiber optic cables across a number of U.S. cities, as the company reevaluates its strategy to presumably use mainly wireless to provide high-speed Internet service.

Work on Google Fiber is to continue in in the cities where it has been...

From CNET: When Amazon released its new Fire HD 8 tablet last month, it promised that Alexa, the cloud-based voice service, would be added to Fire tablets in the coming weeks through a free over-the-air software update. Well, that update is now available to owners of the 2016 Fire HD 8, as well as...