From CNET: Four Silicon Valley companies -- including Apple and Google -- have agreed to pay $415 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit that accused the companies of conspiring not to hire away each other's employees.

The proposed settlement, which also includes Intel and Adobe Systems, was...

From DailyTech: Nintendo Comp., Ltd. (TYO:7974) Wii U may be continuing to struggle, but sales of the 3DS handheld have slowly built up steam, even in the era of smartphone gaming. Nintendo announced yesterday that it would be at long last bringing its latest and greatest second-generation 3DS...

From InfoWorld: Facebook, the world's largest social network, is making its first move into the enterprise.

The company has confirmed that it is beginning a pilot test of a desktop service and mobile app for what's being dubbed Facebook at Work, an enterprise-level social and collaborative network...

From PC World: Google has stopped a widespread malicious advertising attack that bounced Web surfers to dodgy sites hawking weight loss and skin care products.

The malicious ads were delivered to website owners signed up with Google’s AdSense program, wrote Denis Sinegubko, a senior malware...

From CNET: Samsung executives met with BlackBerry last week with an acquisition offer that was as high as $7.5 billion, according to Reuters, which cited an unnamed source. The Korean tech titan reportedly proposed an initial range of $13.35 to $15.49 a share, representing a 37.4 percent to 59.5...

From DailyTech: Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android 5.0 "Lollipop" -- like past builds of Android -- has been a little bit of a late bloomer, with a slow adoption cycle. But things are finally starting to heat up.

Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) in the last couple weeks has...

From InfoWorld: IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by smartphones and tablets.

The z13 is IBM's first new mainframe in almost three years, and it...

From PC World: Adobe Systems fixed nine vulnerabilities in Flash Player that allow attackers to record users’ keystrokes or take complete control of their computers.

These are Flash Player updates you’ll want to install, unlike the malicious one served from the North Korean news agency site.

The...

From CNET: Samsung launched a long-awaited smartphone in India on Wednesday that is powered by Tizen, the electronics giant's own operating system.

Sporting a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 3.1-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 1,500mAh battery, the Samsung Z1 resembles many other entry-level...

From DailyTech: Anonymity is one layer of protection on the internet. In recent years agressive marketers, spammers, and phishers have turned to a trick known as "web bugs" -- remotely hosted images embedded in webpages or emails -- to check the exact time a user opens an email and to check the IP...