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Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is about to close its acquisition of International Business Machines Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) low-end server business. The $2.1 billion deal is one of many that Lenovo has used to bolster its company. Previously, Lenovo purchased IBM's consumer PC business. Earlier this...

Nearly every major tech company held a conference in June. This week it was Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) turn. The search engine giant announced a number of Android-related developments, including another TV platform. Speaking of TV, the Supreme Court put an end to Aereo after ruling that the company...

You may have heard of Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) so-called ‘Silver’ program. Reportedly, Silver is intended to improve customer support for Android devices. And according to the technology business news website The Information (subscription required), there’s more. A lot more. Google’s master...

Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), the South Korean electronics giant, sells more smartphones than anyone. According to market research firm, Strategy Analytics, the company shipped 319.8 million units in 2013, most of them powered by Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. Perhaps not for long...

If reports from DigiTimes, IB Times, and CNET are accurate, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) tablet and smartphone lineup for 2014 will begin with launch of an 8-inch Nexus tablet in April, followed by release of a Nexus 6 smartphone and the long-delayed Nexus 10 2 tablet. According to DigiTimes, Google...

U.S. stocks rallied for the second straight day, ending a tumultuous week on a positive note as investors found more positives than negatives in today's job reports. "It was bad, but not that bad," an investment officer at Wells Fargo told CNBC. "We've made some progress here, we still think we...

Samsung's (OTC: SSNLF) Galaxy Note 3 has set a new record for phablet sales after reaching a new milestone in just two months. According to The Next Web, Samsung has shipped 10 million units since the device was released on September 25. This is a notable improvement over the second-generation...

   In the latest quarterly comScore MobiLens survey, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), once again continued to dominate the smartphone market with 40.6 percent of all subscribers. This, however, represents just a 0.2 percent gain since July. Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), a distant number two, with 25.4 percent...

The country's largest electronics retailer is gearing up three waves of sales on Black Friday. Designed to keep customers coming back to Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), the company's first Black Friday sale begins at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 28. For those who plan to camp out, the retailer said...

Taking a page from the “you can't succeed until you fail” mantra, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has publicly spoken about valuable lessons it learned following the April debut of its Home software for Android devices. AllthingsD reported that Facebook's mobile engineering VP Cory Ondrejka has “learned a...

The latest comScore data is out and it shows that the duopoly is still firmly intact and widening its lead. ComScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) found that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) hold a combined 65 percent of market share in device market. Apple holds the lead with 40.6 percent in...

There were a number of notable headlines from Apple, (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and other industry players this week, but there weren't any really big announcements. As a result, consumers and investors alike turned their attention to the days ahead, such as the October 22 iPad event,...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is reportedly building a smartphone with HTC (OTC: HTCKF), creator of the first and only phone designed specifically for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). That ill-fated handset, known as the HTC First, did not turn out to be a huge source of profit. This prompted AT&T (NYSE: T) to...

Android phones may be more successful, but Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) hugely popular smartphone has won the hearts of millions of customers. And, as luck would have it, one multinational Internet corporation. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), one of the largest media companies in the world, has chosen to use a...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could be forced to build lower-cost phones if Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers continue to build cheaper (but comparable) devices. "I wouldn't be so sure [that] Apple will be a huge force in the mid-term," said Andrew Henderson, Editor-at-Large of Nomad Capitalist. "I...