From ComputerWorld: Yahoo reported on Tuesday an uncharacteristic rise in revenue for the second quarter, but it came with a hefty sum spent on boosting its search traffic.

Total sales for the period ending June 30 were $1.24 billion, up 15 percent from the previous year. In the company's...

From InfoWorld: Apple reported an unusual misstep in the April-to-June quarter, selling fewer iPhones than analysts had been expecting, but it wasn't all bad news from Cupertino.

Sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were 47.5 million units, lower than the roughly 49 million phones that analysts had...

From PC World: Huawei Technologies’ shift to selling high-end smartphones is paying off. The more expensive devices helped almost double the company’s handset revenue in this year’s first half.

Although Chinese brands have a reputation of selling cheap, low-end products, Huawei is out to make...

From CNET: By virtually any measure, Apple posted solid financial results. But for the investors who follow the company, solid just isn't good enough.

Apple's third quarter is typically its slowest. It's sandwiched between the Dad-and-grad shopping season, and the back-to-school and iPhone launch...

From CNET: To win regulatory approval for its $49 billion bid to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV, AT&T has agreed to stricter Net neutrality rules and a promise to expand its fiber-optic-based broadband network to more customers.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Tuesday...

From InfoWorld: IBM has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit, though sales of its new mainframe gave it a lift.

Revenue for its second quarter was $20.8 billion, down from $24 billion a year earlier, IBM announced Monday.

The big drop is partly from IBM selling its x86 server...

From PC World: On Monday, Microsoft pushed out an emergency out-of-band update for a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain complete control of your system. The flaw affects all systems from Windows Vista and up—including the Windows 10 Technical Preview.

The exploit...

From CNET: Toshiba President and CEO Hisao Tanaka has quit the company over an accounting scandal that the Japanese government says could shake the reputation of Japanese business.

Between 2008 and 2014, Toshiba over-reported profits by 151.8 billion yen (around £780 million, $1.22 billion or AU$1...

From DailyTech: The Mozilla Foundation has long played a key role in setting web standards as the maker of Firefox -- one of the world's most used browsers. While an enthusiastic early supporter of HTML5 (particularly when it came to the Ogg and Webm audio codecs), Mozilla tried to practice...

From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics' newest Android tablets might as well be called "the Galaxy Air" series. They are the company's thinnest and lightest yet, and could offer an attractive alternative to Apple's iPad Air 2.

The Galaxy Tab S2 will go on sale starting next month. To improve over...