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Facebook knows one of the biggest challenges it faces is monetising its mobile platforms and so it’s gradually overhauling them to do just that. When it originally filed its S-1 documents ahead of its listing on the stock market, Facebook conceded that its inability

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority is investigating claims by Apple that its new iPad supports fourth-generation (4G) mobile networks. According to a report by the BBC, the regulator is concerned that Apple may not be complying with an agreement to amend claims about the tablet computer’s capabilities

Troubled phone maker Nokia is attempting to unload its luxury mobile-phone brand, Vertu, for a reported $265 million (€200 million), the Financial Times is reporting. Nokia is being advised by Goldman Sachs on the deal and is currently in talks to sell the brand to private equity group Permira. For the baller

Can reality trump art? That was the question hovering over the launch on 24 April, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, of a plan by a firm called Planetary Resources to mine metals from asteroids and bring them back to Earth. It sounds like the plot of a film by James Cameron — and, appropriately, Cameron is indeed one of the company’s backers. The team