From DailyTech: While the Nook HD+ is a well-known budget Android tablet, the days of the Nook may be numbered. According to a report by TechCrunch, internal documents indicate that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is offering Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS) a $1B USD buyout to acquire some of the...

From DailyTech: Facebook may be the king of the social networking world, but it has a long way to go in the way of mobile devices -- and it shows in the sales of the HTC First.

HTC's "First" smartphone was released as a Facebook-heavy, social smartphone last month. While it runs...

From X-bit Labs: A smartphone from Amazon has been under widespread discussion for over one and a half years now, but there are still no signs of it on the market. A fresh portion of rumours about the Kindle smartphone suggest that Amazon’s Lab 126 is actually developing two handsets...

From X-bit Labs: A new set of benchmarks of Intel Corp.’s forthcoming Haswell microprocessors has been published. The new test results reveal some expected and some completely unexpected peculiarities of Intel Core i-series 4000-family central processing units (CPUs). The most...

From CNET News.com: Sony returned to the black for the first time in five years, thanks largely to one-time gains from the sale of assets rather than its core consumer electronics products.

The Japanese electronics giant on Thursday reported a net profit of $458 million in the 2012...

From DailyTech: Things haven't been going all that well over at Electronic Arts. Despite being one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry, EA has been struggling with profitability. The profitability struggles led the company to shed employees over the last several months...

From DailyTech: Good news has been few and far between for Deutsche Telekom AG's (ETR:DTE) U.S. brand T-Mobile USA, but the company -- America's fourth largest cellular carrier -- received some such news in its Q1 2013 earnings report. The "uncarrier" added 202,000 branded prepaid...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday introduced AMD Radeon RG2133 Gamer-series memory modules as well as Radeon RAMDisk 4.1. The Radeon RG2133 are the only modules on the market with AMP and XMP profiles for enthusiast-class systems based on AMD and Intel...

From X-bit Labs: The first photographs of what is claimed to be Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation GeForce GTX 700-series products have hit the web. The new breed of graphics products utilizes cooling solution akin to that of GeForce GTX Titan. Publication of images implies that Nvidia...

From CNET News.com: As the bidding war between Dish and SoftBank for the merger of Sprint intensifies, SoftBank is pulling out all the stops to block Dish from getting in the way.

The Japanese wireless carrier launched a new Web site on Tuesday pointing out the reasons it believes...