From CNET: BlackBerry won an $814.9 million award from chipmaker Qualcomm refunding royalty payments, the phone maker said Wednesday.

The award, the result of an arbitration process to settle their case, effectively ends the licensing dispute between the two companies. They were fighting over...

From PC World: It appears that Apple is developing its own power management chips, according to a report from German private bank Bankhaus Lampe. The release of the report Tuesday led to a sharp drop in the shares of Dialog Semiconductor, the current supplier of these chips to the iPhone maker....

From InfoWorld: Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer best known as the maker of iPhones and iPads for Apple, is said to be preparing a $27 billion bid to acquire Toshiba's computer chip assets.

Toshiba is most commonly recognized for making NAND flash and memory chips, with all of its...

From CNET: Roku TVs are CNET's favorite entry-level televisions, with the best built-in streaming platform on the planet and good-enough picture quality for the price.

I also love how they keep getting updated with new features and functionality, such as a recent add-on that lets antenna users...

From PC World: You will very soon be able to use Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands.

But for that, you'll need to upgrade the popular developer board, which can run Windows 10 IoT Core, to the Creators Update of the OS...

From CNET: AT&T just made its 5G ambitions a little closer to reality.

The telecommunications giant said on Monday that it had acquired Straight Path Communications. The little-known company holds a swath of nationwide high-frequency radio licenses in the 39 gigahertz and 28 gigahertz band.

That...

From PC World: Facing fierce competition from Amazon.com, eBay has sold its Indian operation to local retailer Flipkart, while joining Tencent and Microsoft in investing US$1.4 billion in the Indian company.

In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay will make a $500 million cash investment...

From InfoWorld: Google has begun using a machine learning approach to learn from user interactions with mobile devices.

Currently under testing in the Gboard on Android keyboard, Federated Learning lets smartphones collaboratively pick up a shared prediction model while keeping training data on the...

From PC World: The U.S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that's even worse than the tech industry as a whole.

The department has found "systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Labor Department...