From ComputerWorld: Facebook is on an aggressive push to gain users in emerging markets, and on Thursday it began tackling a new task: Making money from them.

With more than a billion users, the company's footprint already extends to almost every country on Earth, but the Facebook seen by users in...

From InfoWorld: Bowing to the reality that Google's Chrome has become the world's fastest-growing browser -- and by some accounts, the choice in the enterprise -- Microsoft today launched a Chrome add-on for quickly accessing Office Online apps and their documents.

The small extension adds an icon...

From PC World: As part of a massive suite of Windows 10 news on Thursday, Microsoft rolled out a new beta version of its PC and tablet operating system, Build 10576, to members of the Windows Insider Program.

The big changes inside the new build are focused on improving Microsoft's Edge Browser...

From CNET: South Koreans currently enjoy the world's fastest Internet speeds, so it makes sense that they would be the first to get a fifth-generation mobile network, aka 5G.

SK Telecom, the country's most widely used mobile carrier, on Thursday declared it would be the world's first operator of a...

From ComputerWorld: Seagate today announced its first 8TB hard disk drive (HDD) customized for recording video -- lots and lots of video.

The new 3.5-in. 8TB Surveillance HDD, which will retail for around $385 online, is designed to store more than 800 hours of high-definition (HD) content captured...

From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced its third acquisition in as many days with the intent to buy 1 Mainstream, a privately held provider of cloud-based video.

Cisco other two acquisitions this week focused on analytics. Cisco announced intentions to acquire Lancope for $452.5 million, for its...

From PC World: Nintendo will roll out its first smartphone game in March rather than this year as originally planned, delaying the company’s plans to cash in on the growing market for games on smartphones.

The company’s president Tatsumi Kimishima said during an investor presentation that the first...

From CNET: Xiaomi phones continue to be a hit in China, but fierce competition in the country threatens to eat away at the company's market share.

The growing Chinese electronics brand was neck and neck with Huawei in 2015's third quarter, with conflicting reports on which company was China's top...

From InfoWorld: Apple logged another healthy rise in sales and profits for its most recent quarter on the strength of record iPhone sales and strong results for Macs.

The company's revenue rose 22 percent from a year earlier to $51.5 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 26. Sales of...