From CNET: Just last week, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that her company would be "on the hunt" to acquire new companies, and now she has made good on that promise.

HP plans to buy Aruba Networks in a $3 billion transaction that, factoring in cash and debt, works out to about $2.7 billion...

From DailyTech: If Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) has never channeled its inner Apple, Inc. (AAPL) as much so as it did with the Galaxy S6, which launched on Monday at the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain.

The GS6 is, in some regards, a Samsung fan's...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Monday announced two new Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1, which will be upgraded to the cross-platform Windows 10 later in the year.

The company gave news media at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a brief glimpse of how Windows 10 apps, such as an Excel...

From PC World: Qualcomm wants to help future mobile devices learn about their users, by putting cognitive computing capabilities into its next mobile microprocessor, the Snapdragon 820.

The chip will provide mobile devices with some brain-like learning capabilities by incorporating features from...

From CNET: Intel on Monday unveiled a new set of mobile chips, with the hope that these more powerful processors will help it catch up to rivals in the smartphone and tablet markets.

The company revealed at the Mobile World Congress show here its Atom x3, x5 and x7 mobile chips. The x3, formerly...

From CNET: NXP agreed Monday to buy fellow chipmaker Freescale for about $11.8 billion in cash and stock, bringing together two companies focused on the burgeoning Internet of Things market.

Both NXP and Freescale sell microcontrollers -- tiny processors that help run all kinds of devices, from...

From InfoWorld: IBM will dedicate $4 billion in spending this year to the cloud, analytics, and mobile technologies, as it struggles with seismic shifts that are changing the computing landscape it once dominated,

In return, by 2018 IBM expects to reap a combined $40 billion in annual revenue from...

From PC World: Everybody’s favorite open source video player just got even better. The VideoLAN Organization is releasing the stable version of VLC 2.2.0 on Friday, packed with a few goodies ahead of the VLC 3.0.0 release scheduled for later this year.

The new VLC for Windows, Mac, and Linux rocks...

From CNET: Another clue has surfaced that Samsung will unveil two models of its Galaxy S6, one with a standard front display and the other with a curved edge.

Posted on Reddit by a user tagged as a "verified employee" of Sprint, a link dubbed "A better teaser" calls up an image asking people to...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has sent out invites to exclusive media and developer partners for an event held on March 9. Like any Apple event, there's a great deal of hype and speculation about what product launches, demoes, or refreshes might be on the agenda.

The event is titled "Spring...