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Xiaomi Corp. expects serious sales from its ever-broadening range of offerings, which includes offbeat items like power strips, Segways and now – rice cookers.
How much could you save if you dropped voice calling from your smartphone plan? At T-Mobile, it looks like $30 a month. It quietly offers a plan that includes unlimited data and texting without the ability to make cellular calls (except for dialing 911). It costs as little as $20 a month, $30 less than the equivalent smartphone plan.
Although protecting passwords from cybercriminals is important, your family needs that information
Raghavendran Ganesan, a software engineer with Indian outsourcing firm Infosys Ltd. who had been missing since last week's terrorist attacks in Belgium, has been confirmed dead, the company said.
Bromium's $40 million Series D round was priced at $1.22 per share, compared with $2.95 per share in its previous financing round, according to data provider Pitchbook.
Facebook’s VR headset launches with more than 30 games, but no must-play titles yet
Computer programmers, some of the oldest workers in the tech industry, have the largest gender pay gap compared to all other professions across all industries, according to a new study.
A unit of Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has developed an algorithm that can predict crowd formation, which it says could be used to help warn authorities and individuals of unusually large crowds that could lead to public-safety threats.
Apple Inc. is hoping to grab a bigger share of the booming Indian smartphone market with its cheapest-ever iPhone, the SE, but it may not be cheap enough.
DoorDash said Tuesday it raised $127 million in its latest funding round primarily from existing investors, the latest sign of the delivery startup's struggle to secure a slug of capital.
The topic “cheapest iPhone in history” is trending today on Chinese social network Weibo. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple’s new 4-inch iPhone SE is what most Chinese consumers want.
Six months after releasing its physically largest iPad ever in the iPad Pro, Apple is offering a new iPad Pro in a smaller, more familiar size. The new iPad Pro has a 9.7-inch display, and dimension-wise is nearly identical to the iPad Air 2, but nearly every under-the-hood spec is an improvement.
Apple's newly announced iPhone SE is smaller than its iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus siblings. But on the inside, it's just as powerful. It mostly resembles the older iPhone 5s it's replacing, with the same 4-inch screen, chamfered edges and flat back.
Microsoft Corp. apologized after a party it hosted on the sidelines of a major videogame-industry conference last week included women in sexualized outfits who danced and mingled with attendees.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Alibaba founder Jack Ma share a stage in China to discuss the Internet’s role in the economy, and exchange compliments for the other country’s business culture.
Mark Zuckerberg took his wooing of China to a different level on Friday when he jovially ran through Tiananmen Square, sans a pollution mask, when the city’s air quality index was above 300, or "hazardous."
Former cellphone giant Nokia is making a hardware comeback—with a $60,000 virtual-reality camera that shoots video few people can watch today.
Computers are officially dirt cheap. This one costs $79.
A new non-partisan study on entrepreneurship gives some credence to the tech industry's stance that American innovation benefits from robust immigration.
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