From CNET: Customers who use the Samsung Pay mobile payments system weren't hurt by a hack attack on LoopPay, a company Samsung acquired to help power the service, the company said on Thursday.

LoopPay, which Samsung acquired in February to set up its payment system, was hit by a hacking incident...

From DailyTech: When it comes to wearables sometimes less is more. While Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has seen a fair deal of sales success with the Jack-of-all-trades Apple Watch, that success has been more of an exception than the rule. In general the more a smartwatch tries to do, the poorer sales have...

From PC World: HP’s cobalt-blue Streambook 11 didn’t turn heads because of its color—it turned them because of its price: $200 with Windows.

This year, the Streambook 11 gets a peppy little update, new colors, and its most welcome fix: a better screen.

HP says the new Streambook 11 will now come...

From InfoWorld: Analysts like to describe product advances in terms of “tick” and “tock.” Intel and Apple, in particular, seem to run out ahead with a passel of new features -- the “tick” -- and follow that up a year or so later with incremental improvements: the “tock.”

Microsoft's Surface Pro...

From CNET: Long a solo act, Pandora is ready for a duet.

The Oakland, California, Internet radio company agreed to buy online ticketing agent Ticketfly for $450 million split nearly equally between cash and stock.

"With Ticketfly, we will thrill music lovers and lift ticket sales for artists as...

From DailyTech: It's been a year and a half since anything remotely resembling a high end Windows smartphone was released. And Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) spent much of 2014 and 2015 committing to two waves of massive layoffs, which culled nearly two in three employees from its newly acquired smartphone...

From PC World: Panasonic will soon begin selling in Japan a Blu-ray Disc player compatible with 4K UltraHD discs, the first such player in the world.

UltraHD, also called 4K, has four times the resolution than conventional high definition and is being promoted hard by major consumer electronics...

From CNET: The operations of Facebook and many other US-based Web companies in Europe could be disrupted after a 5-year-old pact between the two regions was declared illegal.

The agreement that Facebook and others use to allow transfer of data about European citizens back to the US on Tuesday was...

From CRN: IBM is making a big play for bringing object storage technology to the cloud and to on-premise data centers with its planned acquisition of Cleversafe.

IBM on Monday said it plans to acquire Chicago-based Cleversafe, one of the leaders in the object-based storage software market. Terms of...

From ComputerWorld: Google has issued patches for two new Stagefright-related vulnerabilities, one of which affects Android versions going back to 2008 and puts millions of users at risk.

The flaws were found by security company Zimperium, which also unearthed the original Stagefright flaws in...