Braintree, one of the most popular online payment gateways for the web and mobile, has raised $35 million in another round of funding.

Strategy Analytics announced today that we now have more than a billion smartphones in active use, and the smartphone penetration continues to grow at an increasing rate.

Blizzard adds two new events – the Infernal Machine and Monster Power and a whole lot of bug fixes in this new patch to Diablo III

Twitter has acquired Cabana, a mobile app development platform, which specializes in making social apps for Facebook and Twitter.

We have been hearing about Google TV for quite a long time now. However, it has failed to capture a huge section of the world market because of Google’s lack of focus on this division. However, Google TV is gaining traction recently, as it struck its first launch deal with Korea’s UPlus IPTV. Google TV already has [...]

Amazon may be in the process of buying the smartphone and tablet chip business of Texas Instruments.

If you’re an Amazon Kindle customer, you may have a check coming your way. Today Amazon sent out an email to everyone who has ever purchased a book via Amazon Kindle informing them that they may have a check coming.

Microsoft will make a massive marketing push following the launch of Windows 8, spending more than $1.5 billion.

Apple will probably unveil the iPad Mini, a budget version of the iPad, aimed at boosting its market share, on October 23.

After Huawei, now ZTE is facing the heat, as it was involved in banned sales of computer equipment from Cisco to Iran’s telecom companies. ZTE is Cisco’s sales partner, and Iran is in the list of Cisco’s embargoed countries.

Clearly, Huawei is well aware of the problem, since it was notified about the same back in July, when Lindner covered the same topic at DefCon.

Google might no longer be the cool new kid in the block, but it still hasn’t lost all of its street cred. It tops LinkedIn’s ‘Most InDemand Employers 2012’ list not just in the US, but also around the world.

eBay has started testing an online deals offering, which would compete directly with Groupon’s core offering – daily deals.

RailRadar is Google Maps mashup that tracks the position of trains running in India in realtime. Check it out as it’s not often that you see something as cool as this from Government of India owned entities.

Huawei is the world’s largest manufacturer of telecom equipment, and ZTE is the fifth largest. Both of them have rejected any affiliation with the Chinese Government and the Chinese Government has also rejected these Congressional Report claims as being “groundless accusations”.