Unable to resolve a tax dispute surround its factory in Chennai, Nokia has moved to drop it from the Microsoft acquisition
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Facebook Boosts Mobile Advert Sales
Facebook's first-quarter profits tripled, aided by significant growth in its mobile user base and mobile ad sales
Apple Results Surprise With Strong iPhone Sales
Apple has reported its strongest non-Christmas quarter to date, driven by iPhone sales in China
ARM Expects Better Q2 After Q1 Revenues Hit By Smartphone Slump
ARM blames an "inventory connection" for slowing growth, but says Q2 should be a lot better
Oyster Shows How Digital Wallets Can Work
Oyster has a genuine purpose, is easy to use and familiar to customers says Steve McCaskill
Facebook Is About To Enter The Money Services Market
The social network is negotiating with Ireland’s central bank to become a licenced financial services operator
Paym To Let UK Bank Holders Make Payments To Mobile Numbers
Registration for mobile number payment system 'Paym' opens for most of the country's banks, with the rest set to follow
V.me By Visa Wants To Establish Itself As E-Wallet Leader
Visa Europe's Tash Toothill says card provider's scale and brand recognition will allow it to triumph in e-wallet space
BlackBerry Loses £3.5bn In 2014, But Quarterly Losses Shrink
BlackBerry CEO John Chen says firm is 'ahead of schedule' in returning to profitability
Mobile Botnets Start Mining Dogecoin
Mobile hackers love Dogecoin... so scarce, much mine
Box Files For IPO, Hopes To Raise £181m
Box confirms its long-awaited IPO, but filing with US SEC shows it isn't profitable yet
Mt Gox Discovers 200,000 BTC In An “Old-Format” Wallet
There’s nothing suspicious about a forgotten bitcoin cache worth $100 million, says Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles
Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Sitting On Bitcoins
Hackers target CEO Mark Karpeles to show outrage at Bitcoin exchange
Bitcoin Crisis Continues With Theft, Closure And Death
Flexcoin caves after epic theft, whilst exchange Poloniex loses 12 percent of its coins and First Meta CEO is found dead
Climate Change Deniers Should Sell Apple Stock, Says Tim Cook
Apple CEO loses his rag when climate change deniers criticise Apple's green energy projects at a shareholder meeting
Mt Gox is Gone, But Bitcoin Will Continue
The Mt Gox exchange failed spectacularly, and the price of bitcoins tumbled,. but Sean Michael Kerner thinks the virtual currency will bounce back
Mt Gox Finally Admits It Lost $500,000,000 In Bitcoin
The exchange has launched a dedicated call centre to handle furious investors after admitting that it lost 750,000 bitcoins belonging to customers, and 100,000 of its own
Thousands Of RBS, Natwest, Barclays Customers Hit By Mobile Banking App Outage
Customers left unable to access mobile accounts due to outage caused by major traffic surge
Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Quits Bitcoin Foundation
CEO Mark Karpeles resigns from the Foundation’s board, Mt Gox still doesn’t transfer bitcoins into third-party wallets
America’s Chip And Pin Roll-Out Could Be Expensive
The US is ten years behind Europe on installing Chip and PIN security for credit cards. Wayne Rash says it's time for action
Autonomy Hits Back At Fraud Claims, Says HP Is Dodging Taxes
HP says Autonomy lied, Autonomy says HP cheated
Smartphone Saturation Hampers ARM’s Royalty Revenues
ARM reports increase in profits despite high end smartphone slowdown
Marc Andreessen Talks Up Bitcoin’s Bright Future
Bitcoin could be an outright replacement for centralised banking, according to Internet entrepreneur Andreessen
The Bitcoin Hype Is a Sign Of Real Change
Bitcoins have benefited from hype and noise, But Sean Michael Kerner finds they are a sign of a change in attitude to money
Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Charged With Money Laundering
The co-founder of BitInstant allegedly conspired to supply Silk Road with Bitcoins
Tim Cook Hints At Apple Mobile Payment Technology
Apple CEO says mobile payment technology is "intriguing" and hints Touch ID could play a part
Lloyds Fixes IT Systems Failure That Prevented Card Payments
Lloyds, TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers are left red-faced after being unable to use their cards on Sunday afternoon
Samsung Quarterly Profits Fall First Time In Two Years
The company warns the situation might not improve next quarter
E-Wallets And Mobile Payments To Eclipse Credit And Debit Cards By 2017
Research suggests alternative payment methods will be more popular than cards for e-commerce
Cool Jamaican Olympic Bobsleigh Campaign Raises Value Of Dogecoin
Crowdfunding using Dogecoin sends Jamaican bobsled team to Sochi