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Paul Sakuma/Associated PressSince February, the value of Hewlett-Packard has fallen by 40 percent, about one-quarter of that from Tuesday to Thursday of this week. If things don’t improve soon, though, it’s likely that there will be calls for more radical steps. Read more…
Facebook’s executives say the company is diving deep into mobile and trying to transform itself into a “mobile first” company. Developing mobile products has become a priority, they said, and every team inside the company has been reorganized with the goal of inserting mobile into its DNA. Read more…
The United States government approved a deal in which the company will spend $3.9 billion to buy underused airwaves owned by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and others. Read more »
A South Korean court ordered the companies, the two largest smartphone makers, to compensate each other for patent infringement. Read more »
Clues from a cyberattack on Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company, suggest its computers may have been erased and overwritten with an image of a burning American flag. Read more…
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Thursday’s selection includes what nine jurors will have to do in the technology trial of the decade, Facebook talking about its new apps and Google’s privacy violation task force. Read more…
A new tool allows Facebook users to buy goods and services on their mobile phones — and allows Facebook to bypass sharing revenues with rivals like Apple and Google. Read more…
Anonymous hackers laid claim to a cyberattack on Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, last week. They say they unleashed a malicious computer virus that destroyed three-quarters of the company’s computers. Saudi Aramco confirmed that its network experienced a disruption but said its oil production systems were not affected. Read more…
Mahesh Kumar A/Associated PressFacebook released major upgrades for its iPhone and iPad apps. Those who have suffered from the sluggishness of the current apps can breathe a collective sigh of relief: these new versions are much faster. Read more…
Google’s efforts to recruit and promote more women have resulted in more hires, but not in the executive offices. Read more…
A pitch to Google from an Inuit man brought a tricycle fitted with Google’s camera system to the streets of Cambridge Bay way up in the Arctic Circle. Read more »
Officials say a cavernous California warehouse that serves as an informal office building for technology entrepreneurs does not comply with Mountain View city regulations, but the techies are fighting back, Somini Sengupta writes in The New York Times. Read more »
Here is a rare insider look at the current crop of companies that Y Combinator has produced — in the fields of robotics, mobile apps, e-commerce services and software for companies. It’s an exhaustive list for anyone who wants to know what is happening in start-ups. Read more…
With the Federal Trade Commission dropping any objections, Facebook is now in the final stage of completing its takeover of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing application. Read more »
Josh Haner/The New York TimesIf you followed the griping by Twitter users about NBC’s handling of the Olympic Games, you might think the NBC-Twitter Olympics partnership was a disaster. But the two companies say Twitter commentary actually drove more viewers to turn on their television sets. Read more…
