From PC World: A deal for Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer to buy struggling phone-maker HTC makes sense to some, and on Friday Asus’s chairman said he wouldn’t rule it out.

An acquisition of HTC would certainly help the PC maker boost its presence in the smartphone market. Asus has only...

From CNET: Nvidia is acquiring TransGaming technology designed to tie the disparate worlds of PCs, game consoles and smart TVs closer together.

The US chipmaker's acquisition, announced on Thursday, adds TransGaming technology to Nvidia GameWorks, a project designed to improve the gaming industry...

From DailyTech: With its smartphone market share decimated, critiqueing BlackBerry, Ltd. (TSE:BB) becomes a somewhat unpleasant business given that one feels that anything critical said is somewhat of an exercise in "beating a dead horse" as the old idiom goes. That said, assuming that BlackBerry...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has acquired BlueStripe Software, a provider of technology for watching over distributed applications, to help enterprise customers better manage applications sprawled across hybrid clouds.

Microsoft plans to fold BlueStripe's software into its System Center and...

From PC World: Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit against Fitbit in less than two weeks, claiming its activity tracking products infringe several of Jawbone’s patents.

The new suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco by Jawbone parent company AliphCom, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to...

From CNET: Twitter is adding a new feature to block multiple users engaging in abusive behavior on the social network.

The microblogging service said Wednesday users will now be able to share block lists with other users who may be being harassed by the same accounts. This will let users block...

From DailyTech: We already know that Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will launch its highly anticipated Windows 10 operating system update on July 29. But an unanswered question is when the Windows 10 builds for mobile devices and for the Xbox One will land.

Neowin potentially zeroes in on the answer to...

From PC World: Mozilla is giving a raise to security researchers who spot Firefox browser vulnerabilities, more than doubling its maximum reward for information on the most high-risk flaws.

The change comes as many major companies have launched lucrative bug bounty programs, which benefit software...

From CNET: A new Xbox One is launching next week with a slightly modified design and double the storage, putting the onus on PlayStation maker Sony to respond.

An Xbox One game console with 1TB of onboard storage will launch on June 16 in the US, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The console, which will...

From DailyTech: Facebook, Inc. (FB) offered up something unexpected to punctuate a week in which Apple, Inc. (AAPL) seemed invariably destined to dominate the headlines. Facebook announced this week a foray into the embedded wireless advertising market, offering up free Bluetooth beacons for...