From PC World: It's been nearly two months since Variety and The Wall Street Journal reported Google was "in talks" to purchase popular games streaming site Twitch.tv for a billion dollars. According to VentureBeat, we can now upgrade the status from "in talks" to "sealed deal."

The report is...

From CNET: Investors could finally be losing their patience with Amazon.

Amazon's stock tumbled 11 percent in early trading Friday to about $318 a share, after the company reported a wider-than-expected second-quarter loss. As of Thursday's close, the stock was already down 10 percent so far this...

From DailyTech: Sony Corp.'s (TYO:6758) PlayStation 4 (PS4) at long last will be receiving a patch to allow it to playback 3D Blu-ray movies. The patch will end months of growing grumblings about Sony's failure to support the technology it once coveted.

Graphically and architecturally speaking...

From InfoWorld: Apple will release its first public beta of OS X Yosemite early Thursday.

Redemption codes for the beta, the first OS X preview available to the public in 14 years, will go out via email tomorrow to those who have registered with the program, which Apple unveiled last month at its...

From PC World: We're still waiting to see if Google will eventually merge Google Voice with Hangouts for Android and iOS, as has been anticipated for months now. But on Wednesday, Google went ahead and did the opposite for PCs, integrating Hangouts into the Google Voice website.

The new feature...

From CNET: While Apple is busy readying larger versions of its iPhone, Samsung is hard at work prepping a new, premium smartphone of its own -- the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. At least, that's what we've been led to believe by rumors and reports over the course of 2014.

A pair of images attached to the...

From DailyTech: LG is definitely feeling a bit ecstatic this morning, as it has reported financial results for Q2 2014. The company indeed has plenty to be proud of considering that it sold 14.5 million smartphones during the quarter — that represents a 20 percent increase compared to the same...

From InfoWorld: A California court has allowed a privacy class action suit against Google to continue, though only in part.

After evaluating each claim of each sub-class in the suit, Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal has allowed two claims of the "Android Application Disclosure Subclass," which...

From CNET: Microsoft's CEO affirmed on Tuesday that all versions of Windows will merge into one operating system for all devices.

"We will streamline the next version of Windows from three operating systems into one single converged operating system for screens of all sizes," CEO Satya Nadella said...

From DailyTech: The Lumia 530 was first outed earlier this month by EVleaks, but today is its official unveil party. The Lumia 530 replaces the Lumia 520 in Microsoft’s smartphone lineup, and is predictably a budget device with specs to match.

The Lumia 530 comes equipped with a 4” 854x480 display...