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Report: Android Gains in Smartphone Market; RIM, Microsoft Fall

Reston, Va. - Google's Android led with 36.4% of the smartphone operating system during the three months ending in April 2011, a 5.2% increase...

Apple Adds Universal to iCloud; Will Pay Labels $100-$150MM

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has signed a deal with Universal Music to license songs for its forthcoming cloud-based storage and streaming iCloud service,...

Push IO Buys iPhone App Builder TapLynx From NewsGator

Boulder, Colo. - Push IO, a developer of mobile data applications, announced on Thursday that it will acquire TapLynx, an iPhone and iPad application...

Sprint Nextel Formally Asks FCC to Block AT&T Deal for T-Mobile

Washington - Sprint Nextel on Tuesday formally requested that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) block AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The company...

Portalarium Nabs Funding for Social, Mobile Games

Austin - Social and mobile games publisher Portalarium announced on Wednesday that it has closed a second round of bridge financing, bringing its total...

World Heath Organization: Cell Phones 'Possibly' Carcinogenic

Lyon, France - The World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced on Tuesday that it has classified the radiation...

Apple Confirms "iCloud" Service to be Introduced Next Month

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple (NASD: AAPL) confirmed on Tuesday that it will indeed introduce a cloud-based service, "iCloud," at the company's upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference...

Report: Google Offered Labels $100 Million for Cloud Licensing

Los Angeles - Amid more than a year of negotiations, Google (NASD: GOOG) offered to pay more than $100 million up front to the major...

PayPal Sues Google Over Mobile Payments Trade Secrets

Mountain View, Calif. - Just as the company announced its new Google Wallet mobile payments service, Google's (NASD: GOOG) new competitor in the space, eBay's...

Hedgefund Star: Microsoft's Ballmer Needs To Go

New York - Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn calls for Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the software...