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Google and Facebook, young and successful companies that they are, risk being left behind as technology shifts from PCs and Web browsers to mobile devices. This month, when Google showcased a new [...] read more...

Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services business, facing looming competition for its business of renting online data storage and computing, is introducing a store where customers will be able to rent [...] read more...

Unusually, Google is putting its mouth where its money is. Company representatives appeared at a computer networking conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss some of [...] read more...

The wearable computing wars are about to begin, says a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research. The report predicts that consumers will begin experimenting more with wearables over the [...] read more...

In Instagram’s early days, in offices in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, basking in the blue glow of half a dozen computer screens, sat an old Polaroid camera. It was a Rainbow [...] read more...

Research In Motion, the struggling BlackBerry maker, on Tuesday released an expanded version of its server software that supports not only its own phones but also those made by its competitors. [...] read more...

In the United States, smartphones are on track to outnumber traditional cellphones in 2012. As of February, about half of all Americans with cellphones were using smartphones, according to [...] read more...

Facebook Timeline is one of the most talked about feature of the top social networking site. To some it is a useless aesthetic upgrade that only further confuses Facebook users, but to others it [...] read more...

Nvidia is a scrappy semiconductor company that used to be known for chips that richly rendered gaming graphics, but is now getting its advanced chips inside tablets and supercomputers. Last week [...] read more...

Last week Amazon, the online retailer, announced it was buying a robot maker called Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. Before you get excited that Amazon may offer a robot that can tuck you [...] read more...