From CNET: In round two of its previously announced planned layoff of 18,000, Microsoft is cutting another 2,100 people on September 18.

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the 2,100 figure, noting that 747 of those laid off will be in Washington state. The remaining cuts will be at other Microsoft...

From DailyTech: Earlier this month, Samsung announced two new phablet devices to an eager audience: the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge. Unfortunately, although Samsung provided us with a ton of images and specs for the new smartphones, the South Korean company didn’t mention a peep about...

From InfoWorld: Cisco this week said it will acquire privately held Metacloud, an operator of private OpenStack clouds for global enterprises.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Metacloud offers an OpenStack-as-a-Service that remotely operates private clouds in a customer’s data center...

From PC World: In another sign of the decline of the PC, Toshiba is cutting its PC workforce by about 900 people and sales bases by more than half.

The manufacturer said Thursday it will step up restructuring of its struggling consumer PC operations to focus on sales to business clients.

Toshiba...

From CNET: Amazon has beaten Google in a bid to acquire the .buy top-level domain.

ICANN, the international Internet regulator, has awarded (PDF) Amazon the .buy domain after the company successfully outbid three other competitors in an auction. Amazon paid $4.6 million in an auction that ended on...

From DailyTech: Amazon has been busy on the mobile front, following the disappointing launch of the Fire Phone. The Fire Phone has been an absolute dud on the market, with AT&T (the exclusive carrier for the Fire Phone) already dropping the price of the entry-level model to 99 cents on contract....

From InfoWorld: Apple yesterday released the third public beta of OS X Yosemite, shipping the preview a few days earlier than expected.

The update, labeled build "14A361p," accompanied the debut of the eighth developer preview, also on Monday. The latter was available only to registered developers...

From PC World: This may be the age of the smartphone and tablet, but Amazon has an e-reader user base voracious enough to merit yearly refreshes of devices like the Kindle Paperwhite. With the second generation Paperwhite about to hit its first birthday, it appears Amazon is preparing to release...

From CNET: The iPhone 6 seems to be running into the same old story -- not enough supply to meet demand.

Apple supplier Foxconn has brought more factory workers on board to make the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus at its plant in Zhengzhou, China. But the complexities of manufacturing both phones...

From DailyTech: When NVIDIA announced its SHIELD tablet back in late July, two versions were announced: a 16GB Wi-Fi-only model and a 32GB model with LTE connectivity. Since that time, only the former model has been available for purchase, priced at $299.

Today, NVIDIA is finally taking orders for...