From PC World: While Microsoft’s cloud business may have carried the company through the second calendar quarter, it’s also seeing the first effects of the massive restructuring of its phone business.

Microsoft said revenue in its phone business plunged 54 percent in “constant currency,” factoring...

From CNET: The Seattle-based Internet retailer on Thursday reported a surprise profit for the third-quarter as sales jumped 23 percent. The report pleased investors, who pushed the company's shares to an all-time high in after-hours trading.

There's no mystery why Amazon's business keeps growing...

From InfoWorld: When iOS 9 debuted in September, Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client for iOS stopped working correctly with some VPN server configurations, preventing resources from loading. During iOS 9's beta period, Cisco filed a bug report with Apple about iOS 9 breaking DNS resolution in IPv4-based...

From DailyTech: While some worried that it might pull out of the mobile market amid struggles, Japanese OEM Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) has instead delivered a major show of confidence announcing plans to open a brand new third mobile phone factory.

The plan is intriguing for a number of reasons.

First...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has started a three-month bug bounty program for two tools that are part of Visual Studio 2015.

The program applies to the beta versions of Core CLR, which is the execution engine for .NET Core, and ASP.NET, Microsoft's framework for building websites and web...

From InfoWorld: Apple today released OS X 10.11.1, the first update for its El Capitan operating system, and implied that the refresh includes a fix for the crash problems that users of Microsoft's Office 2016 for Mac have reported for months.

Among the notations listed in Apple's accompanying...

From PC World: Xiaomi has been knocked from the top of China's smartphone market by Huawei, according to new research, a setback for a company that was often feted as “the Apple of China.”

Research company Canalys called it a "remarkable feat" by Huawei, best known outside China for its network...

From CNET: Last Thursday Alcatel OneTouch released the camera-centric Flash 2 phone in India, but it looks like that's not all the company has in store for the region.

The handset maker, owned by Hong Kong's TCL Communications, is strongly considering manufacturing its devices in India, according...

From ComputerWorld: Western Digital has agreed to buy SanDisk for around $19 billion in cash and stock.

The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, will create a storage giant with expertise in hard disks and flash memory, assuring the future of WD as its traditional business of spinning...

From InfoWorld: Dell got a jump-start in the world of analytics software when it acquired StatSoft early last year, and on Tuesday it forged further ahead into the space with a new Statistica release and a variety of industry-specific services.

Announced at the company's Dell World conference...