From InfoWorld: Microsoft has acquired LiveLoop and its technology for sharing PowerPoint presentations online more easily.

The software giant didn't reveal any financial details, but confirmed the deal via email saying the team from LiveLoop will help build great collaboration across Office...

From PC World: Google recently added another way to reduce your PC's bandwidth demands when you're tethering, or any other situation where every megabyte counts.

Chrome users can now add a new extension called Data Saver (Beta) from the Chrome Web Store that compresses web pages on Google servers...

From CNET: Google already makes the software that powers some televisions. Now it wants to make some of the content that shows up on TV.

The search giant is reportedly developing a TV show based on Ingress, a game created by Google's Niantic Labs gaming studio, according to The Information...

From CNET: Amazon is bolstering its cloud-storage services to consumers, on Thursday rolling out two new unlimited packages that let users stow away either just photos or every kind of file.

The Unlimited Photos plan costs $12 a year, and includes an additional 5 gigabytes of storage for videos or...

From InfoWorld: More than half of all Internet Explorer (IE) users have less than 10 months to discard their browsers, and either update to a new edition of IE or dump Microsoft for one of its browser-making rivals.

The majority of IE users face a support retirement deadline that Microsoft...

From PC World: Uber keeps crashing into laws and regulations in Europe, but it’s keeping the foot on the accelerator.

Following raids in Belgium and France, Dutch authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ride-hailing service UberPop, which a court...

From CNET: Samsung hopes to reverse its fortunes with a radically redesigned flagship smartphone.

The company said that its Galaxy S6 smartphone, alongside its curvy sibling, the Galaxy S6 Edge, will go on preorder Friday and then become available for purchase at carrier and retail stores on April...

From CNET: April 10 is shaping up to be a busy day for smartwatch and smartphone fans.

HTC said Thursday that its latest premium smartphone, the HTC One M9, will land in carrier and retail stores on April 10. That's the same day that Samsung plans to release its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge and...

From InfoWorld: Apple has reportedly acquired database company FoundationDB, a move that would allow the company to improve the underpinnings of its existing services and also lay the groundwork for an Internet of Things (IoT) expansion.

Asked to confirm the deal, first reported by TechCrunch...

From PC World: Remember when everyone thought YouTube was about to buy games-streaming service Twitch last year—like, really thought it was going to happen—and then the deal fell apart at the last second and somehow Amazon emerged with the big purple crown?

Apparently YouTube's been busy since...