From InfoWorld: Google's stock jumped more than 7 percent in the after-market hours on Thursday, after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter.

Total income for the period ended June 30 was $3.93 billion, up 17 percent from $3.35 billion in the second quarter of 2014...

From PC World: AMD suffered a potentially catastrophic quarter, losing $181 million as revenue fell 35 percent from a year ago. Even worse, sales in the company’s Computing and Graphics Segment fell by a whopping 54 percent, as PC makers cut purchases of AMD’s parts.

AMD’s computing and graphics...

From CNET: In the same month in which the video game industry held one of its largest conferences dedicated to upcoming titles, sales of physical games and game hardware jumped to record highs for the year.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, the marketing extravaganza dedicated to the video game...

From DailyTech: Three disgruntled users of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) mobile Android operating system must be none too happy with their lawyers, who managed to scuttle their federal class action privacy lawsuit against Google in the most bizarre of turns.

Robert DeMars of Calif., Michael Goldberg of Ohio...

From InfoWorld: It's official: Moore's Law is slowing down.

Intel gave an update on its chip-making plans Wednesday and revealed it will take longer than expected to introduce a new manufacturing process that will yield smaller, faster transistors.

Intel plans to produce its first "10-nanometer"...

From PC World: Qualcomm is under investigation by the European Union’s antitrust authority, which suspects the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for 3G and 4G chipsets used in smartphones and tablets.

The European Commission has initiated proceedings against Qualcomm in two...

From CNET: As eBay gets ready to split off PayPal, it's narrowing its focus right on its marketplace.

The e-commerce company said Thursday it agreed to sell off its eBay Enterprise business -- which helps run online retail sites, including those of Ikea, Timberland and iRobot -- for $925 million...

From ComputerWorld: Intel's revenue and profit both dropped last quarter as people held off on buying new PCs ahead of the Windows 10 launch later this year.

Revenue from Intel's Client Computing Group, which sells processors for desktops, laptops and smartphones, fell 14 percent from this time...

From InfoWorld: You might think it was doomed, following Microsoft's reorganization of its phone business just days ago, especially after Microsoft wrote down the value of the business. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put those fears to rest, however, in an interview with ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.

Nadella...

From PC World: With this month’s Patch Tuesday round of security fixes, Microsoft has ended its support for the Windows Server 2003 operating system.

“For anyone who still runs Windows 2003, I hope it is where no one can access it, and they are working on a project to replace those servers,” said...