Philips Electronics, Samsung SDI and Panasonic were among seven companies fined a record $1.92 billion by European regulators for operating price-fixing cartels in television and computer displays.
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A recent report that sought to rank the world's tech centers strangely did not include Stockholm given Sweden's abundance of leading tech companies.
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As Google battles rivals ranging from Apple to Internet companies that allege it fixes its search results, Eric Schmidt has become the search giant's explainer-in-chief.
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Nokia signed a deal with China Mobile and launched a new, midtier Windows phone in an attempt to win back lost market share.
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Nokia signed a deal to sell and lease back its headquarters in Finland, in a bid by the handset maker to raise much-needed cash.
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The iTunes 11 upgrade makes significant improvements to the world's most popular computer program for buying and playing music and videos.
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Zynga will make its game currency available to pay-TV and high-speed Internet providers through an agreement with Synacor.
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The question of who rules the Internet and how is being debated at a 12-day conference in Dubai. The conference aims to draft a new treaty to underpin international regulations.
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Sharp agreed for U.S. chip maker Qualcomm to invest up to $120.4 million, in what is expected to be the first in a series of capital injections to shore up the Japanese electronics manufacturer's finances.
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Windows 8 software is off to a slow start, failing to boost demand for Microsoft computers.
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Apple said its iPhone 5 smartphone will be available for sale in China on Dec. 14, following recent regulatory approval by the Chinese government.
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Ben Rooney: Evangelists claim that the Next Big Thing is Big Data. It has the power to reveal hidden truths about our companies, about our lives, and about society as a whole.
As Tim Cook shifts responsibilities around at Apple, Eddy Cue is emerging as one of the biggest beneficiaries.
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Japan's Sharp is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology.
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Lenovo is threatening Apple's and Samsung's smartphone leadership in China. But the PC maker faces challenges in making the business profitable.
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Finnish handset maker Nokia said it is stepping up its fight against Research In Motion, taking legal action against the BlackBerry handset maker in a continuing dispute over their patent-licensing agreement.
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As anyone familiar with business software knows, a huge amount of it is so ugly, so horrible to use, that it makes your eyes bleed. Phil Libin, CEO of the document management tool Evernote wants to change this.
All of the hype is about Berlin as a high-tech hub, but why does Stockholm not get the attention it is due?
Nest is a smart, Internet-enabled thermostat for the iPhone-enabled house. It's designed by the father of the iPod and is part of a wider move to connect household devices to the Internet.
A new study of more than 32,000 videogame players has found that women make up a solid majority of "baby-boom" gamers, aged 50 or more, and they spend far more time playing than their younger counterparts.
Google's social-networking service, Google+, is showing signs of sustained growth.
Apple's iPhone 5 is invading South Korea, the home market of rival Samsung Electronics, and early numbers suggest a warm welcome.
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Walter S. Mossberg: Nokia's new Lumia 920 smartphone is a quality phone with attractive features and twice the typical memory, but it is thick and heavy.
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The technology story of the year might not turn out to be the launch of a tablet, a new smartphone, big data or cloud computing. The biggest story in technology might well end up as a squabble over bookkeeping.
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The sturdy and creative IdeaPad Yoga 13 from Lenovo contorts into a clamshell laptop or a tablet, but its big flaws include a touch-pad bug, paltry storage and low battery life.
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So-called serious, or applied, videogames have sought to take a slice of the health-care budget, offering the promise to help patients and clinicians. But so far they have failed to make any kind of impact.
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The recent Pioneer's Festival in Vienna provided a spectacular backdrop for Eastern Europe's entrepreneurs and investors to shine.
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Google's new Nexus 4 Android smartphone has some nice features and an attractive price tag, but the improvements are modest.
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San Francisco media company Prismatic has raised Series A funding, offering a service that lets people sign up through their social networks to consume and share news.
A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.
Rory Maher with Capstone Investments today writes that his meetings Monday with Google (GOOG) management suggest the company will expand its fiber-optic home networking service beyond the current test market of Kansas City, though it is not clear what the next city might be. Moreover, Maher surveyed 5,000 comments on Facebook over the last week [...]
Credit Suisse's networking equipment analyst Paul Silverstein today writes that the movement to replace networking equipment with so-called software-defined networking has been “greatly exaggerated” as a threat to Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Juniper Networks (JNPR) and other traditional vendors, and that it is in fact “more distant and limited than what appears to be the [...]
Evercore Partners's Mark McKechnie today reiterates an Equal Weight rating and $8 price target on shares of Research in Motion (RIMM), writing that the company's announcement this morning it will offer companies a free upgrade of their servers to handle its forthcoming “BB10″ operating system “removes a roadblock for those wanting to upgrade” BlackBerry devices. [...]
Longbow Research's semiconductor analyst Joanne Feeney today offers a look at trends for PC shipments this quarter and next, where she sees tablets computers continuing to chip away at notebook and desktop computer shipments. The latest “field checks” from Asia regarding motherboard shipments suggest unit shipment growth for this quarter will be flat for notebook [...]