From PC World: At Lenovo’s Tech World conference on Thursday, Motorola debuted a new take on the modular phone, launching the Moto Z and Moto Z Force with a trio of modular add-ons, dubbed Moto Mods. Thanks to these magnetic, snap-on modules, the Moto Z phones can be upgraded with extra battery life...

From CNET: Apple isn't the only one making big changes to how it does business on its app store.

Google is testing a tweak to its Play Store, where people can find apps to download onto phones that run Google's Android mobile software. The change gives app makers a bigger cut of subscription sales...

From InfoWorld: BlackBerry has moved ahead with acquisitions and new products as it aims to secure any communications endpoint, including smartphones and cars.

And today the company announced it has created a single secure management platform and console for devices on multiple operating systems as...

From PC World: Microsoft has released a new beta build of Windows 10 aimed at enhancing various aspects of the operating system, including support for the LastPass extension in the Edge browser, as the company hurtles toward releasing a major update in the coming months.

Build 14361, released...

From CNET: Uber and two of its executives were issued with fines on Wednesday by a French court for running an illegal transport service in Paris, reported Reuters.

At the heart of the dispute is the low-cost Uber POP ride-hailing service, which uses non-professional drivers with their own cares to...

From PC World: Yahoo is selling over 3,000 patents and pending applications that the pioneering Internet company believes could be the most foundational patents related to Web search and advertising.

The patents are in the areas of search, advertising and cloud technology and 2,659 of these were...

From CNET: As Indians increasingly move to e-commerce to do their shopping, Amazon is giving domestic companies a big reason to worry.

Company CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday announced that his company will be investing an additional $3 billion in India. This takes Amazon's total investment in the...

From InfoWorld: On the eve of its Tech World conference in San Francisco, Lenovo has signed a deal that will allow it to bring virtual reality to more of its products in the future.

The deal allows Lenovo to use Movidius's Myriad 2 vision-processing chip in upcoming devices, bringing capabilities...

From CNET: Ready to have a virtual-reality system in your home this week? HTC says is now selling the Vive online and will ship the gadget internationally within two to three days of purchase.

You can check out the virtual-reality system in person at over 100 retail locations throughout the United...

From PC World: Verizon Communications will be bidding about US$3 billion for the Internet assets of ailing Yahoo, according to a newspaper report.

The communications company will try to beat other potential bidders such as private-equity firm TPG with a deal that would likely aim to combine Yahoo...