Vodafone said it will keep the $3.15 billion dividend payment it will receive from Verizon Wireless and plow it into its flagging operations in Europe, which weighed heavily on the mobile operator's full-year profit.

Yahoo's purchase of New York-based Tumblr is a major breakthrough for the city's tech startup scene.

What's underneath the hood of the latest Xbox videogame console represents a multiyear odyssey of trying to figure out how to keep the machine "cool."

Apple paid no corporate income tax to any nation on tens of billions of dollars in income over the past four years, Senate investigators disclosed ahead of a hearing on Tuesday.

GrubHub and Seamless, two tech startups that make it easier to order takeout food from restaurants, are merging, although they will remain separate brands.

Yahoo's $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue. Many other highflying Web startups may not be as lucky.

Sprint boosted its offer for Clearwire by 14%, succumbing to shareholder pressure with the hope of winning over vigorous opposition to the deal.

Music-streaming service Spotify will begin publishing lists of its top 50 most-streamed songs and most-shared songs, hoping to draw in new members.

Startup companies are coming up with new technologies—from pills and bottles with digital sensors to data analytics software—aimed at getting people to take medicine only as directed.

Online design retailer Fab is in advanced talks to raise $250 million to $300 million in venture capital in a deal that would value the fast-growing but unprofitable company at $1 billion not including the new capital.

Sprint Nextel said it agreed to enter into negotiations with Dish Network Corp. about Dish's $25.5 billion bid for the wireless carrier. But Sprint stopped short of saying Dish's offer could be superior to what Japan's SoftBank has already bid.

Two Hon Hai employees have fallen to their deaths in China since late April, highlighting the continuing challenges that face the Apple supplier as it tries to manage its growing workforce in mainland China.

Yahoo will face a series of cultural challenges as it tries to make its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr pay off.

The Supreme Court ruled federal regulators can set deadlines for state and local authorities to act on applications for new cellphone towers.

Buyout firm Vista Equity Partners agreed to pay about $1 billion to acquire Websense, a maker of software and services designed to help protect companies against cyberattacks and data theft.

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen bid $2 billion for certain spectrum from LightSquared, the wireless venture spearheaded by financier Philip Falcone that is navigating bankruptcy proceedings.

If Yahoo's flagging business still had one strength, it was supposed to be brand advertising. But social-media stars are stealing its thunder—a big reason it wants to own blogging tool Tumblr.

Dell sent another letter to Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management seeking more information about their takeover proposal, reiterating that it can't engage in talks before determining whether the proposal is credible.

Stephen King has no plans for a digital edition of his new book, "Joyland," hoping to get more people to shop for it in a physical bookstore.

'Now You See Me,' to be released May 31 by Summit, hopes to make movie magic without computer-generated special effects. Director Louis Leterrier hired magic consultants, including David Copperfield, to create and execute some of the more complicated illusions.

As Congress frets about privacy implications of Google Glass, one thing is clear: The technology that can redefine what is "public" and link the digital and physical worlds is here.

In order to support its current stock price, Facebook needs to grow a lot faster, according to a new analysis.

The latest plant-growing gadgetry promises to automate the process of bringing the outdoors in.

Sina said expects its alliance with Alibaba to help it make money off its Weibo service, after a reporting a loss for the first quarter.

DirecTV, the second largest U.S. pay-TV provider, is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site.

No one in the industry is talking about any fears they may be having about the cloud -- at least not out loud.

Massive open online courses will soon deliver an advanced comp-sci degree at a very, very low price, courtesy of Georgia Tech, Udacity and AT&T.

IBM eats its own dog food, reporting significant cost savings and more customer interactions with its private cloud.

With millions of apps already out there, why re-invent the wheel?

Gartner predicts employees will be expected to provide their own mobile devices for work; foresees more back-end cloud infrastructure to support it. Their advice: keep it simple.

Target IT executives describe the challenges of building consistency into in-store, mobile, and customer call center interfaces.

There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data a day — where's it all going to go? That's what many organizations are just starting to find out, as explored at IBM's latest conference.

One developer's mini success story: Multiply by 3 million, and you have a thriving economic model for service development.

'Design is more than just creativity, or a phase in creating a product, service, or application. It’s a way of thinking that can transform an entire enterprise.'

Enterprise and data integration have been on front burners for years. But a changing business landscape demands a redoubling of efforts.

An agile response: 'I’m here to prevent more software from being written. We want to write less code, not write more code faster.'

The flexibility enabled by service oriented architecture has made it cheaper to experiment and fail with new project ideas — and that's great news for innovation.

An insurance services provider crosses the line: 'If you talked to me four years ago, I suspect I would not have envisioned myself sitting on stage today saying I'm a cloud service provider.'

Are we still viewing 21st century organizations through a 1990s window?

A survey on IT stress factors also found that one out of five IT professionals report stress-related health issues as a result of their jobs.

The big web services datacenters of the world are becoming the de facto 'servers' for today's enterprises, usurping on-premises enterprise datacenters, says one leading tech investor.

The author and visiting Harvard professor says everyone should have a role in analytics. 'Narratives' might tell a clearer story.

Predictions about the changing roles of chief information officers: Less technology management, more business management.

A data expert observes that the pieces are falling into place for BDaaS, but ethical questions arise.

Public clouds have the edge over their internal counterparts in security, reliability, and elasticity, according to the author of a new book on enterprise architecture.