From CNET: Samsung's latest phone is aimed at buyers who want a really slim device with still respectable features.

Now available in China, the Galaxy A8 is the company's slimmest smartphone ever, just .23 inches or 5.9 millimeters thin, and weighing in at only 5.3 ounces, or 151 grams. The phone...

From CNET: PayPal, which eBay purchased in 2002 for $1.5 billion, enjoys huge growth as online and mobile payments take off. Compared with eBay's marketplace sales growth of 6 percent last year, PayPal's revenue jumped 19 percent, to $7.9 billion. That faster growth means PayPal, for now a unit of...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla on Monday began blocking all versions of Adobe Flash Player from running automatically in its Firefox browser, reacting to news of even more zero-day vulnerabilities unearthed in a massive document cache pilfered from the Italian Hacking Team surveillance firm.

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From PC World: After halting the service due to an influx of spam, Google is ready to open Map Maker again, with changes that hand much of the control back to users.

Map Maker lets people update the information in Google Maps to make it more accurate. The service will reopen in phases starting...

From CNET: August could be a busy month for Samsung based on the latest rumors over new smartphones.

The Korean mobile phone maker will announce and launch both its Galaxy S6 Edge+ and its Galaxy Note 5 big-screened smartphones next month, according to blog site SamMobile, citing information from...

From CNET: Former CEO Yishan Wong is accusing the site's co-founder Alexis Ohanian of instigating a firing that led to backlash from users and eventually to the resignation of interim CEO Ellen Pao.

Wong said in a post on Reddit (of course) late Sunday that Ohanian wanted changes to the site's...

From ComputerWorld: Ellen Pao is resigning as Reddit's interim chief executive after a week of tumult on the online message board with many users calling for her ouster.

Pao is resigning under a mutual agreement with Reddit's board, the company announced. She will be succeeded by Steve Huffman...

From PC World: It’s hard to believe that routers based on the IEEE 802.11ac standard have been with us for three years already. Netgear was one of the first with a router in this class, announcing its R6300 way back in May 2012. Netgear finally retires that model with today’s announcement of its...

From CNET: After Amazon unveiled a 20th anniversary sale called "Prime Day" slated for Wednesday, Walmart said Monday that it too will be holding a sale the same day and temporarily cut its free shipping minimum on orders to $35 from $50. Walmart also mocked Amazon for offering its sale only to its...

From CRN: Microsoft is widening its Surface tablet reseller base with a new wave of channel partners exclusively selected to resell and reap the benefits of the company's flagship tablet device.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company may announce a number of partners that have been newly authorized to...