From PC World: With China’s Internet growth slowing, the country is opening up the broadband provider market to private enterprises as part of government sponsored trial.

The country on Wednesday released a draft of the upcoming trial rules, which will let private enterprises sell broadband...

From CNET: Twitter will begin collecting data on which apps its users are downloading in order to build a "more personal" experience, Recode reported.

In the Security and Privacy section of its support site, the company says that it will be "collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps...

From DailyTech: Fallout and repercussions over the Obama administrations bickering with China's ruling party continues to reverberate in the world's largest electronics market, producing painful consequences for American tech companies.

In recent months Apple, Inc. (AAPL) saw its iPad and iPhone...

From InfoWorld: Sony will offer partial refunds to customers to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that its ads in 2011 and 2012 for the PlayStation Vita console's cross-platform sharing and other features were deceiving.

Sony Computer Entertainment America will provide people who bought...

From PC World: Amazon is dropping the price of the Fire Phone again, at least for a limited time. The online retailer is now selling its debut smartphone for just $199, unlocked and contract free. As before, Amazon also includes a free, one-year Prime membership with every purchase. The latest sale...

From CNET: Samsung Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, has been rapidly merging its various affiliates this year to ease control and streamline its key businesses -- electronics, finance and construction.

According to executives of component suppliers to Samsung's defense and chemical...

From DailyTech: Back in 2011 Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) was facing the onslaught of Lulzsec, a small, tightly-knit group of hackers. The hack began with the breach of the PlayStation Network (PSN) maintained by Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) and the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) gaming...

From PC World: In time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft has refined how Office 365 handles bulk promotional emails from vendors like Amazon, eBay and Macy’s.

Those messages, which contain special offers, newsletters and other sales incentives, fall into a gray area between legitimate...

From CNET: T-Mobile has agreed to give its customers more accurate information about the speed of their mobile broadband connection, even when their speeds are being throttled.

The FCC announced Monday that T-Mobile will provide its customers with tools to allow them to accurately gauge the...