From InfoWorld: Now that Mozilla's Rust language has hit its 1.0 milestone, more or less, the company is focusing on the next logical steps.

In a document entitled "Priorities after 1.0," published on the rust-lang.org site, Mozilla senior researcher Niko Matsakis outlined the next goals for the...

From PC World: Google wants to help you find even more apps to install, and it's turning to its legendary search engine to point you in the right direction.

When using Google search on mobile devices you'll now come across prompts to install apps that can help answer your search terms.

After...

From CNET: Google is still by far the dominant search engine in the US, but Microsoft's Bing has slowly been carving out a bigger chunk for itself.

Looking at the desktop search engine landscape in March, ComScore pegged Bing's share at 20.1 percent, finally breaking the 20 percent mark and up from...

From DailyTech: Excerpts of an alleged memo from Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) retail chief Angela Ahrendts were posted by the UK newspaper Telegraph on Thursday. According to the text of the memo, Apple has pulled the plug on in-store sales of Apple Watches until June, instead exclusively selling to...

From Infoworld: Dropbox said Wednesday it will pay rewards to independent researchers who find software flaws in its applications, joining a growing list of companies who see merit in crowdsourcing parts of their security testing.

The popular file storage service previously publicly recognized...

From PC World: The latest Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones build added the new Spartan browser and a ton of universal apps, but it appears to have introduced some severe problems, as well. Microsoft’s halting availability of the Windows 10 Preview on the most popular Windows Phone in the...

From CNET: The odd couple of search -- Microsoft and Yahoo -- have tweaked their partnership to give Yahoo more wiggle room.

The amended agreement, signed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, has two main elements. First up, Yahoo will now be allowed to have more "flexibility...

From DailyTech: Tax day is an unpleastant observance for most ordinary Americans, but for a handful of corporate "people", it's a time of joy. A number of high-tech firms make this year's list of most fortunate of the Fortune 500 -- firms who will pay no taxes this year, according to a report by...

From InfoWorld: Nokia has said it has entered into a memorandum of understanding to acquire Alcatel-Lucent in a deal that would value the French telecommunications equipment maker at €15.6 billion ($16.5 billion).

The Finnish company is also considering a possible divestment from its Here mapping...

From PC World: Apple has purchased LinX Imaging, an Israeli company that makes multi-lens cameras for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks.

A distinguishing feature of LinX’s cameras are their small size. Its cameras “are nearly half the height of a standard mobile camera,” according to a news...