Technology

Samsung Electronics said five of its Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets that come with its enterprise security software recently received approval from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, allowing them to be listed as an option for officials. The five devices...

Microsoft employees are bracing for news of up to 12,000 layoffs in the run-up to CEO Satya Nadella’s conference call with Wall Street analysts late Tuesday.Earlier this week, Bloomberg News cited unnamed sources to report layoffs were planned and...

Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock of employees. And they are doing it by waging an attention-grabbing campaign on Twitter. Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition...

Apple(AAPL, Tech30) and IBM (IBM, Tech30) on Tuesday announced a partnership to leverage each company’s strengths. Starting this fall, Apple is delivering devices exclusively to IBM, which “Big Blue” will then prep with industry-specific apps for business customers. The idea...

Apple primarily relies on white and Asian men for its top-paying technology jobs, feeding the perception that Silicon Valley’s economic boom is largely excluding women, blacks and Hispanics. A breakdown released Tuesday by Apple Inc. showed 54 percent of the...

iOcean has recently announced an Octa-core phone called, the iOcean X8 Smartphone. The phone is a huge departure from its predecessor iOcean X7 smartphone, but like X7 borrows much of its design influence from Oppo and the X7 looked...