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Fewer Facebook users take a liking to its new Home software

2013-05-15 05:00:00

SAN FRANCISCO — It may be too soon to call Facebook Home a flop. But it's clearly not the breakout hit that some expected. One month after its splashy debut, fewer and fewer people are downloading Facebook's new mobile software. It took weeks...

Barry Diller talks up Aereo on first day of Milken conference

2013-04-30 00:00:00

The three-day Milken Institute Global Conference kicked off Monday in Beverly Hills, with media moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch among the hundreds of business leaders and politicians slated to speak. The annual event, run by financier and...

What the Michael Lynton contract renewal means for Sony

2013-04-09 15:31:00

Sony Entertainment Inc. Chief Executive Michael Lynton has renewed his contract, a move that is likely to silence chatter in some Hollywood circles that has centered on the executive's future at the company. In his post, Lynton oversees the global...

Panasonic would exit TV industry only as 'final resort'

2013-03-29 00:00:00

Panasonic Corp.'s president said the company will persist with trying to fix its money-losing TV business and would exit the fiercely competitive industry only as a "final resort." The Osaka, Japan, company also said that Fumio Ohtsubo will step down...

Samsung unveils 2013 TVs, Evolution Kit with Kate Upton, Eli Manning

2013-03-20 10:09:00

Samsung held a toned-down launch event for its 2013 line of televisions -- probably a wise choice after last week's theater of the absurd, Broadway-themed launch for the Galaxy S 4 smartphone. The South Korean electronics giant instead defaulted to...

More than half a billion Internet-connected devices in U.S. homes

2013-03-18 18:44:00

Thanks to the increasing popularity of tablets and smartphones, the number of Internet-connected devices in U.S. homes has surpassed half a billion. The number of connected devices per U.S. household with Internet access has grown to 5.7, up from 5.3...

Google surprise shake-up: Android chief replaced by Sundar Pichai

2013-03-13 11:40:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- In a surprise shake-up, Google has put Sundar Pichai in charge of its Android division, replacing Andy Rubin, who guided the mobile software to become the world's most popular over Apple. "Going forward, Sundar Pichai will lead Android,...

Meet Google's Sundar Pichai: The exec who now runs Android

2013-03-13 15:14:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- The joke quickly made the rounds of Twitter: Top Google Inc. executive Sundar Pichai had been elected pope –- of Android. There were no puffs of white smoke as there were for Pope Francis, just a blog post Wednesday from Google...

Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer Announces Retirement

2013-03-08 22:03:00

Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer will retire from the Tokyo-based media and electronics conglomerate in June. The 71-year-old former chief executive and president of the company made the announcement in a speech to the Japan Society in New York on...

South Korea tycoon sentenced for embezzling more than $40 million

2013-01-31 16:16:00

A South Korean executive was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for embezzling more than $40 million from his conglomerate, the third-largest of the massive and powerful chaebols that have long dominated the South Korean economy. SK Group...

Samsung takes the spotlight as CES becomes truly global

2013-01-11 16:34:00

LAS VEGAS — For a corpse, the International Consumer Electronics Show was pretty lively. The 2013 trade show, which ended a four-day run Friday, attracted a record 3,250 exhibitors and was on pace to match last year's 156,000 in attendance despite...

Apple, Google, Amazon, more buying Kodak patents for $525 million

2012-12-19 08:23:00

Bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. said it will sell about 1,100 digital-imaging patents to a group that includes Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., for about $525 million. The consortium of 12 companies, led by Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corp., also...

Google Inc. is under fire from a coalition of companies led by Microsoft Corp. which have called on European antitrust authorities to launch an investigation into the Internet giant's dominance on smartphones.

2013-04-09 08:45:19

A member of the media examines the Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Nexus smartphone, running Google Ice Cream Sandwich Android operating system, in Hong Kong.

2013-03-13 11:13:07

Samsung Electronics Co. representatives wait to enter the Robert F. Peckham Federal Courthouse in San Jose where Apple and Samsung are engaged in a $2.5 billion patent dispute.

2012-07-31 13:40:00