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Take-Two plans to repurchase the 12 million shares held by activist investor Carl Icahn, and directors backed by the Icahn Group resigned as part of a previous arrangement.

AT&T will hire more than 3,000 retail sales and sales management employees nationwide over the next several months to meet “increased customer demand.”

Apple struck a deal with China Mobile to begin selling iPhones on the world's biggest mobile network starting in January. 

Sprint posted a wider-than-feared 2Q loss due to the shutdown of its Nextel business and a bigger-than-expected drop in contract subscribers.

Ramping up efforts to break into the smartphone arena with a fresh new device by Motorola, Google is reportedly willing to spend up to $500 million on marketing alone

Nokia inked a deal to buy Siemens’ 50% stake in their joint venture NSN for 1.2 billion euros in cash and debt.

No, it's not a covert operation. U.S. spy agencies have a venture capital arm that gives them access to leading tech startups.

Investors seemed to react sourly to a string of announcements made by Research in Motion at an investor conference on Tuesday, however it was met with positive feedback from analysts. 

After a proxy battle that forced Deutsche Telekom to sweeten its bid, shareholders of MetroPCS approved the company’s merger with T-Mobile USA on Wednesday.

Applied Materials reported a 9.9% rise in quarterly revenue as chipmakers spent more on technology used to make smartphones and memory chips.

Major U.S. computer company Dell Inc [DI.UL] said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for hackers to access users’ private data.

BlackBerry shares rallied after the Pentagon said its new mobile program for unclassified work will predominantly use the Canadian company's smartphones.

New research revealed that BlackBerry’s share of the U.S. smartphone market recently inched below 1%, as the handset maker grapples with disappointing sales of new phones.

Video game demand dove for the sixth consecutive month in July, as gamers wait for the launch of refreshed consoles from Microsoft and Sony.

The television set-top box maker will receive a total of $490 million after settling patent infringement lawsuits with Google's Motorola unit and Cisco.

EA posted an adjusted 4Q profit of 55 cents a share, missing estimates by two cents, however adjusted revenues rose just above Wall Street expectations. 

Facebook is taking pre-orders for Oculus Rift computer bundles in hopes of attracting devout gamers.

Airlines halt flights to Israel, and Amazon is bringing 'Fire' to your fingers.

Chinese company Lenovo Group is purchasing Google’s Motorola Mobility business for about $3 billion.

Don’t fall for the hype that software is eating the world. Without hardware, software would starve to death.