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Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer is set to leave Yahoo soon, with the Internet company changing its name to Altaba after a $4.8 billion sale to Verizon

Evernote has recently announced a proposed change to its privacy policy that will let some of its staff to look at app’s user notes. The policy change was supposed to start being implemented by January. But after receiving overwhelmingly negative feedbacks, the company backtracked and issued its cancellation.

It would have been a dream come true with two of the biggest music streaming services collaborating into producing the 'only' online music service that anybody would ever need.

Samsung wins a landmark patent case this week against its biggest competitor, Apple.

Gone are the days when you go to a grocery store, pick out what you would like to purchase, and depending on your luck, there might be a long queue -- or a short one to go through. Amazon Go offers the convenience of shopping at a brick-and-mortar set up without the need for a checkout line.

Amazon still reigned supreme over the Cyber Weekend among other retailers. Based on a data collected by research firm Slice Intelligence, the online shopping giant captured 31 percent of online spending. More people chose to shop in Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday than in Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and Apple.

With the barrier to entry really low, finding success in selling used stuff online can be very challenging and not as straightforward as it seems.

Companies acquire one another for a simple reason -- the technology and expertise is already there, and the infrastructure is in place. Fitbit sees something in Pebble and might acquire them for $34 to $40 million.

The marketing for the Snapchat Spectacles is a great business move.

Barnes & Noble released a tablet that costs only $50 and is supposed to take on Amazon. The Nook will have a price that is comparable to the most basic Kindle and is clearly targeted at getting a huge chunk of the market.

President-elect Donald Trump did not have much support from the tech industry. This is the case with Apple and among other tech companies. However, Apple's CEO Tim Cook called Trump after his win. It was later revealed to The New York Times that Trump offered incentives to Apple in an attempt to convince the company of moving its production to the US. The question is whether or not Apple will even consider doing that.

Skyscanner executives have just confirmed of the company's purchase by Ctrip, China's biggest online travel agency.

It seems that Samsung's headaches when it comes to exploding phones is far from over. While the company is slowly recovering from the problem caused by the exploding Galaxy Note 7, other models from their line-up are raising concerns in the company. There are reports of other Samsung phone models exploding, particularly in Canada.

Since Los Angeles-based Snap Inc.'s launch of its successful mobile app Snapchat in 2011, founders Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown are now set to put the company forward with their last week's filing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Apple just released a book entitled, "Designed By Apple In California," that pays tribute to the last twenty years of the company's history and products. Designed By Apple In California has a lot in common with Apple's gadgets; it took more than eight years to finish it, it is bound in stark white linen, printed on special paper, and it has an exorbitant price tag.

Many in Silicon Valley are prominent, but few are significant. Among the prominent technologists in the Bay Area, VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger is one of the most outspoken Christian technologists on faith, chosing the route of significance. Before becoming the CEO of VMWare, a multi-billion dollar and leading software company in the world, he was the first Chief Technology Officer at Intel Corporation, where the first microprocessors were invented. If you've ever plugged a USB into your computer, used WIFI, you've used his technology.

Twitter and Facebook's attempts to block terrorist content on social media have brought the ire of the terrorist group on them. The companies' CEOs, however, revealed that death threats from ISIS have become so common that they are unremarkable. Furthermore, Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg said counter-speech against hate, messages of tolerance and hope, is by far the best answer.

Mobile World Congress 2016 will start this weekend, from Feb. 22- 25. The conference will gather some of the world's biggest, most important tech companies. Watch them live as they try to outdo each other with the latest smartphones, tablets and plenty more.

Google is reportedly looking to re-introduce its Play Store along with other services in China, a new report from Reuters suggests, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plan. The search giant’s official app repository in the Chinese mainland will supposedly be different than its international counterparts.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday the value of merchandise it has sold so far during the Singles' Day online shopping extravaganza had surpassed last year's total of $9.3 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook would work with the United Nations High Commissioner to make the internet available to those who wouldn't otherwise be able to use it.

The Islamic State has declared war on the employees of Twitter after the social media giant blocked known accounts linked to the Muslim terrorist organization.

A personal visit to Silicon Valley by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation this week, followed by the release of a major annual report on the health of the region's economy provided hints of a future for the country's technology capital that will include huge transit challenges and optimism that the current tech boom is not another "bubble."

Movile, the largest mobile services and software developer in Latin America, has been quietly raising significant investment and acquiring new businesses over the past year. And as the Brazilian technology conglomerate extends their reach into new global markets such as China and the U.S., the activity of major industry players such as Apple, Facebook, and Google in Latin America is drawing a renewed focus on that region of the world.

An important debate opens this Wednesday as both the House and Senate will hold hearings on the issue of net neutrality. The outcome of proposed legislation that will come from Congressional committees combined with a decision expected next month by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could have a major impact on both the price we pay for home Internet access and how we use it.