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BlackBerry fell the most in almost two-and-a-half years after its quarterly earnings report showed surprisingly weak revenue from software, marring what was otherwise shaping up to be a banner year. The Canadian company

Tanzania will allow foreign investors to buy shares in telecommunications companies listing on the domestic stock exchange after an initial public offering by the country’s biggest mobile operator stalled. Changes will be introduced

Facebook is no longer just about “connecting the world”. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written a new mission statement: to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”. Zuckerberg has been rethinking

Four years after Blackstone Group and Silver Lake Management battled to take Dell private, buyout firms are back in the market for big leveraged technology deals. BMC Software, owned by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital

Apple has long proved adept at negotiating China’s notoriously challenging market, responding to fickle consumer tastes and unpredictable regulation far more adeptly than its competitors. But a recent decision to start taking

As part of a campaign to turn around its image, Uber Technologies started allowing customers to tip their drivers inside the app. The company rolled out the option Tuesday in Houston, Minneapolis and Seattle, with plans to

Apple has said in a legal filing that there is “mounting evidence” Qualcomm is operating an “illegal business model” designed to extract high patent royalties on every wireless device sold. The iPhone maker said it was

Reddit shares close up 48% in market debut

Reddit is one of the few relics of the mid-2000s Internet that has not only survived but thrived in recent years. Now venture capitalists are giving a major boost to the link-sharing website, with funding that will give the company a

Google says it is creating new policies and practices to suppress terrorism-related videos, a response to UK lawmakers who have said the internet is a petri dish for radical ideology. Google will increase its use of technology