Worldwide PC shipments fell by 4.3% in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same period a year ago, marking the 11th straight quarter of declining shipments, according to analyst firm Gartner. Just over 61m PCs
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Jawbone is liquidating, though its CEO is starting again with a company that moves out of the fitness-tracker business in favour of health-related products, an area that deeper-pocketed rivals also are entering. Founded in 1999, Jawbone
Xiaomi pioneered an online flash-sales model that lifted it to dizzying heights and made it Asia’s most valuable start-up, but it’s since fallen on hard times. Now it’s counting on old-fashioned retail to make a comeback, and that’s proving
Xiaomi has acquired a swathe of patents from Nokia, making its latest acquisition of technology to drive a global expansion. The Chinese smartphone maker is getting its hands on a trove of intellectual property from the Finnish
Erroneous prices of Nasdaq stocks, including some of the world’s biggest technology companies, flooded traders’ screens after the US market shut early on Monday before a holiday. The prices were distributed by third-party
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
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
After years toiling away in secret on its car project, Apple CEO Tim Cook has for the first time laid out exactly what the company is up to in the automotive market: it’s concentrating on self-driving technology. “We’re focusing on autonomous
A crack has finally formed in the foundation of the US bull market. Now investors must decide if any structural damage has been done. This year’s hottest stocks, companies from Facebook and Apple to Netflix and Nvidia, buckled
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates that technology – and social media in particular – can divide society even as it’s intended to bring people together. “The Internet has enabled