Two weeks after Samsung Electronics Co. and Research in Motion Ltd. received approval from the Pentagon to have their new devices used throughout the Department of Defense Apple Inc. got its own green ...

Yahoo on Thursday said it is incorporating Twitter into its Yahoo home page "news stream." The move might please a fraction of Yahoo's current users, but likely would do little to remedy Yahoo's ...

When photo-sharing app Instagram said in February that its monthly users had surpassed 100 million, it was just one reminder of the changing world of photography. And with high-tech smartphones and numerous ...

Bloomberg Google is holding its big annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco today. There will be a whopper three-hour keynote laying out some of Google's plans for developers. If it's ...

Joseph Estrada, former president of the Philippines, started out as his political career as mayor of San Juan, a neighboring city Manila that he served for 17 years. After Monday's midterm elections, it ...

Filipino lay leaders endorsed 10 senatorial candidates who opposed a controversial bill giving free contraceptives to the poor, hoping to sway today's elections in which half of the 24 members of the Senate ...

In a sign of the shifting dynamics of the videogame industry, the market capitalization of GungHo Online Entertainment Inc. -- known for its addictive mobile Puzzle & Dragons game -- surpassed on Monday ...

George Stahl discusses the week‚s top tech stories, including a very possible 3-D smartphone coming soon to you.

MANILA—The Philippine Coast Guard confirmed that its officers fired upon one of two Taiwanese fishing vessels that it said entered the country's territory on Thursday, leading to the death of a Taiwanese ...

Bang With Friends, a mobile application that facilitates casual encounters among friends, has a simple pitch: "Your friends will never know you're interested unless they are too." Well, that's ...

If you are Larry Ellison, you can buy the best talent, the best technology and the best boat to win the America's Cup. Your son also might make a movie about you. The results were on display Wednesday ...

The newest app to hit the top of the App Store charts is about as simple a game as it gets -- and it turns out that's what iPhone owners want in a game. Meet Dots, a connect-the-dots game from co-founders ...

Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg News Apple has now unveiled the all-time most-downloaded apps on both the paid and free side. As we wrote about last week, the top list of free apps was pretty much what you might ...

LinkedIn just turned 10 years old, transforming from a small professional-networking site into a must-have tool for job seekers and recruiters. Just last week the stock hit a record high of more than $200. ...

Malaysia's deputy chairman of the Election Commission defended the integrity of the weekend's elections as criticism grew on Monday. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called Sunday's vote "rigged," ...

PUTRAJAYA – Husam Musa talks like a technocrat politician running for office in any of Asia's boom-time economies. On the campaign trail ahead of Malaysia national elections on May 5, he has drawn thousands ...

AP Apple is nearing 50 billion all-time downloads in the App Store. This is pretty impressive given that apps weren't even a business less than a decade ago. Now there are more than 850,000 apps in Apple's ...

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Text messages sent through U.S. carriers fell for the first time in 2012. It may seem hard to believe, but Americans are texting less. More to the point, Americans are ...

Reuters Investment bank Piper Jaffray took a dim view of Intel's chief executive choice, calling Brian Krzanich a "well-respected insider" who nevertheless lacks the "market acumen to lead ...

Zenefits It turns out there's a hidden $50 billion-ish market that's ready for a startup to come in and overhaul -- the process of hiring and managing employees. Meet Zenefits, a startup that handles payroll, ...

Take-Two Interactive Software is preparing to launch a new videogame that marks one of its biggest steps in its efforts to become an influential player  in the mobile market. The game, a World War 1-themed ...

Big data has become one of tech's biggest buzz phrases, despite varying definitions about what it really is. But the financial bets being placed are pretty substantial, with Skytree emerging as the latest ...

Bloomberg The keyboard-equipped BlackBerry Q10 launched in the U.K. this past weekend. BlackBerry Z10, make way for the Q10. Several months after the launch of its all-touchscreen Z10, Research in Motion ...

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Samsung described an unusual eight-brained processor as a major step above competing chips. Now that U.S. buyers will be late to get it, the company is playing ...

Bloomberg Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat. Vermont Telephone Co. (VTel), whose footprint covers 17,500 homes in the Green Mountain ...

Google Google's wearable computerized glasses Google Glass. Path is one of the first apps to be integrated deeply with Google Glass, Google's wearable computerized glasses. And wearable computing is going ...

Herminio Blanco, Mexico's former trade minister and chief North American Free Trade Agreement negotiator, has advanced to the final round in the race for the top spot at the World Trade Organization along ...

Mobile payments company Square tapped Google vice president Francoise Brougher as its head of business, seeking to steady and beef up its operations. Brougher, who will carry the title "business lead" ...

Path, a more intimate social-networking app that's like a personal journal, is now growing by 1 million registered users a week after its most recent launch. The newest version of Path includes a way to ...

Bloomberg News Samsung's Galaxy S 4 smartphone, left, next to Apple's iPhone 5. The reviews for Samsung's flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S 4, are coming in -- and they aren't as earth-shattering ...

SINGAPORE—Singapore police are investigating a local artist over cartoons he drew that a citizen charges were racially insensitive and that might fall foul of the city-state's tough anti-sedition laws. ...

Reuters Apple reported a solid second quarter last night compared with analysts' expectations -- but it was the first in a decade in which the company's profit growth reversed. Still, it was enough to ...

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Since Apple's stock reached a high of more than $700 in September last year, the company has lost about $285 billion in market value, more than Google's entire worth. ...

A prominent human rights watchdog group on Monday accused Myanmar officials, community leaders and extremist Buddhist monks of "coordinated attacks" on Muslim neighborhoods and villages. Associated ...

On Saturday, 11 countries negotiating the massive Asia-Pacific free-trade bloc known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership gave the green light for Japan to join the nascent grouping, paving the way for the ...

It's not every day central bankers looks to the cosmos for guidance or play the gender card. But for top officials at the Philippines and Thailand central banks, text books just don't offer all the answers. ...

Advanced Micro Devices has had a hard slog lately. But it still seems to be able to attract technology talent. The latest example is Raja Koduri, a highly regarded expert in graphics chips who had worked ...

Endurance International Group Inc. is one step closer to the public market. The provider of Web hosting services for small businesses has picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG and Morgan ...

Getty Images Google is set to report its first-quarter earnings after the bell today. The search giant beat expectations last quarter as its results signaled that negative trends in online advertising ...

SINGAPORE—A U.S. warship designed for coastal operations pulled into Singapore Thursday for its first-ever Southeast Asian stint, part of American efforts to boost its military presence in a region fraught ...

Efforts by countries in Asia to push ahead with trade agreements should be viewed positively in the absence of a global framework, but care should be taken to ensure that the intermingling of pacts doesn't ...

Shovel Knight Instead of cramming into a tiny apartment to build a game, the co-founders of Yacht Club Games can now afford something a little nicer thanks to its campaign on Kickstarter. The five developers ...

Google Inc. said it's investigating the root of a service outage that made several online applications, including Gmail, unavailable to some users Wednesday. The Mountain View, Calif., company's app status ...

From the Washington Post to The Atlantic to Forbes, the list of publications turning to so-called "native advertising" or "branded content" – online advertorials that mimic the form ...

California once accounted for much of the world's semiconductor manufacturing. Most production gradually shifted to other states and Asia, but one venerable factory keeps evolving. That would be a large ...

I Wayan Sudarsa was watching planes Saturday afternoon as he often does from his restaurant at Bali's famous Jimbaran beach not far from the airport. He found himself in horror when one of the planes landed ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – While it is still too early to know the cause of Saturday's jet crash in Bali, Lion Air -- possibly the world's most ambitious airline -- can't be happy about the negative press. EPA ...

Associated Press The BlackBerry Z10 smartphone hasn't sold well in the U.S., according to some analysts. What could be worse for BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. than weak early sales of its new ...