From CNET: Verizon and Sprint agreed to pay a combined $158 million -- including $120 million in refunds to consumers -- to settle charges they allowed their customers to be illegally billed by third parties, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Tuesday.

The wireless providers agreed to...

From DailyTech: After a watershed year in 2014, eight year old startup Fitbit filed papers with U.S. regulators Friday indicating that it will launch an IPO. The company did not announce a share quantity or target price for the stock offering, but analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S...

From InfoWorld: Verizon Communications has agreed to buy AOL for about $4.4 billion, as it looks to build more extensive digital and video platforms to drive future growth.

Network operators have to find new ways to make money as their traditional revenue streams are under pressure from a new...

From PC World: IBM is ready to light up data transfers over long distances between computers with a new chip that could ultimately spell the end for slower electrical wiring.

After a decade of research, IBM has developed a new silicon photonics chip that can transfer data at aggregate speeds of...

From CNET: Twitter spent $86.6 million earlier this year to acquire live-streaming app Periscope and social media startup Niche, according to a regulatory filing Monday.

The micro-blogging company's filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission did not itemize the selling price of each...

From DailyTech: SuperNexus lead developer and former SamMobile editor Faryaab Sheikh (‏@Faryaab) shared an interesting find to his Twitter Inc. (TWTR) account. The leak comes courtesy of an official source -- Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) productivity software provider...

From InfoWorld: IBM is building slimmer versions of its Power hardware -- used by its Watson supercomputer -- to run complex database applications as well as simpler Web-based ones.

IBM has designed its latest Power servers for social networking, search engines and cloud storage, as computing moves...

From PC World: If you listened to AMD’s investor briefing on Thursday, you didn’t get the whole picture: AMD also quietly cut the prices of its mainstream CPUs, and said it had begun shipping its first “Carrizo” chips, the Carrizo-L for desktop PCs.

Unfortunately, those chips are being shipped to...

From CNET: If you've been eyeing Lenovo's latest ultraportable laptop, the LaVie Z series, since it was announced at CES 2015, this may make you think twice about purchasing it.

According to Consumer Reports, computers in this series have issues that prevent them from working as intended in...

From DailyTech: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) has a market cap of $25.17B USD on an annual revenue of $2.21B USD and a 2014 annual loss of $15M USD. Google Inc. (GOOG) earned a cool $14.4B USD in 2014 on a revenue of $66.0B USD. And it has a market cap of $366.9B USD. Pop quiz -- if these companies were...