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This week's top 10 paid and free apps for iPhone and iPad on the App Store

Amazon is giving its voice-enabled Echo speaker a touch screen and video-calling capabilities as it competes with Google's efforts at bringing "smarts" to the home

A senior U.S. senator says the FBI paid $900,000 to break into an iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters

Tech-savvy Iraqi entrepreneurs are finding success in creating companies that use smartphone apps inspired by such foreign businesses as food ordering and ride sharing

'Halo: Combat Evolved' and 'Donkey Kong' among 4 video game HOF inductees

Apple is getting more aggressive about emphasizing its role in the U.S. economy, apparently hoping to counter recurring criticism over its reliance on overseas factories

Apple is getting more aggressive about emphasizing its role in the U.S. economy, apparently hoping to counter recurring criticism over its reliance on overseas factories

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As Apple's stash of cash grows, so does the possibility that the world's most valuable company will use some of the money for a huge acquisition that would expand its empire beyond iPhones and other gadgets

Microsoft is introducing a Surface device aimed at students

Qualcomm slashes its profit expectations after saying that Apple is now refusing to pay royalties on technology used in the iPhone

Sony Corp. is reporting January-March profit of 27.7 billion yen ($250 million) on the back of healthy sales of image sensors, PlayStation 4 game software and batteries for mobile devices, marking a recovery from its red ink a year ago

Amazon's few physical stores seem experimental, with traditional bookstores that feature products you'd find at Best Buy and a convenience store devoid of cashiers

Trimble Navigation posts 1Q profit, results beat Wall Street estimates

More musicians are using 360-degree cameras, virtual reality musical experiences and vertical videos to reach the smartphone generation of music fans who are discovering new music on their phones and tablets

This week's top 10 paid and free apps for iPhone and iPad on the App Store

Even Supreme Court justices forget to turn off their cellphones

The chairman and CEO of Dubai's long-haul carrier Emirates says he "can't dig into somebody's mind" to understand why the U.S. instituted a ban on laptops and other personal electronics in carry-on luggage from 10 cities in Muslim-majority countries

The United Nations helped launch a smartphone app Tuesday that allows users to "walk a mile in a refugee's shoes" by simulating the daily struggles of a fictional Rohingya Muslim who was forced to flee her home

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a gathering of programmers and other tech folks by talking about augmented reality tools he envisions on Facebook

Samsung's new Galaxy S8 phone is stunning, yet a $100 price hike is hard to swallow

This week's top 10 paid and free apps for iPhone and iPad on the App Store

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now sees the future of augmented reality in your smartphone camera _ and not in special goggles like he did just a few years ago

Youngsters mostly watch television on a television

Apple is joining the fiercely competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility that a company that has already re-shaped culture with its iPhone may try to transform transportation, too