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Samsung Electronics said its third-quarter net profit nearly halved, as its mobile division continued to suffer from heightened global competition. Here's a look at five key takeaways from the company's difficult quarter.

BlackBerry hasn't given a specific launch date for its new Classic smartphone, but that isn't stopping Chief Executive John Chen from hyping the new device.

One of Twitter’s key engineers has flown the coop.

Jack Ma’s tour of Hollywood this week is taking him to studio lots and an NBA game, but he isn't just sight-seeing.

Around 100 of the U.K.s finest minds in the financial technology sector gathered Tuesday for the Financial News and WSJD inaugural Fintech Conference in London. Their mission: Design the Bank of 2020.

Are the fun times over for Facebook?

In the coming year, Americans will ditch their old magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards for new plastic embedded with chip-and-pin technology. To Osama Bedier, former head of Google's Wallet mobile payment business, the shift is a once-in-a-lifetime opening.

Though Samsung is still the No. 1 smartphone maker globally, it has been losing market share. Its mobile unit, future devices and the company’s dividend outlook will be in focus when it reports its results on Thursday.

What’s happening with Whisper? Did the anonymous messaging app betray its users’ trust to build its business? Or did the Guardian newspaper get the story wrong?

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg hasn't been shy about telling investors that, despite paying around $20 billion for WhatsApp, he has no plans to turn the messaging service into a moneymaker any time soon.

Teams of engineers at LG Display—which makes screens used in Apple’s iPhones and iPads and LG Electronics’ G series smartphones—are absorbed in the research of see-through displays and paper-thin flexible screens that, they say, can later be adopted not only in TVs and smartphones but also in wearables and automobiles.

Amid all the concerns that Facebook is losing its cool, and ground to upstarts like Snapchat, the social network continues to grab millions of new users at a strong clip.

A Google engineer changed careers to work on Google X's Life Sciences project after the serendipitous discovery of a tumor.

Facebook reported third-quarter results after New York trading wrapped up Tuesday. We live blogged the numbers and the call with analysts.

Another big quarter for Facebook is in the books. The social-networking giant's quarterly profit nearly doubled from a year earlier, driven once again by strong advertising growth, particularly on mobile devices. Here's a look at the results, in six charts.

There’s a debate whether a recent boom in online-university courses democratizes higher education, or provides a playground for the wealthy. Both a supporter and a sometime critic of online courses had the same message on Tuesday: Commuter and community colleges may get squeezed as the Web increasingly becomes alternative to traditional courses.

It has been three years since Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote his influential essay, "Why Software is Eating the World."

Google’s research lab, Google X, is making a big bet on something tiny: nanoparticles that it hopes will patrol the body for early signs of killers like cancer and heart disease.

Once upon a time, few people cared about online anonymity beyond privacy activists and hardcore security types.

Twitter's shares are getting slammed on Tuesday, in part because of a disconnect between company executives and Wall Street over how to measure the social media service.