Streaming music service Rdio is planning to shut down and sell "key assets" to Pandora. Pandora announced the pending acquisition today, saying it will spend $75 million to buy "technology and intellectual property from Rdio" and hire "many members of Rdio's team." Pandora is not buying the full company. But using Rdio technology and staff, the buyer "expects to offer an expanded Pandora listening experience by late 2016, pending its ability to obtain proper licenses."

This week at the WSJD Live event in Southern California, HBO CEO Richard Plepler took the stage to criticize broadband providers like Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T (which owns DirecTV) for not jumping at the chance to bundle HBO Now with their Internet services. The network launched HBO Now, a standalone streaming service that costs $15 per month, earlier this year. Initially, you could only get the service...

The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim economies, representing some 40 per cent of the global economy, were nearing an agreement on Monday on what would be the biggest trade deal signed anywhere in two decades. Here are seven things worth knowing

A leopard can't change its spots, but Microsoft's embrace of open source looks to prove otherwise. Critics in the community have their doubts, but business realities are changing the climate in Redmond.

For all of its positives, Android 5.0 has some pesky defects that need to be addressed.

The other day I was writing an article and I wanted to link to a piece I wrote when I was at CITEworld in 2013 -- just two years ago. I went searching for..

German news outlet c't Magazin is reporting that Xerox printers are going further than the normal restrictions we've become accustomed to. Not only do you need to refill the ink, but you have to fill it with local ink.

I don’t speak Turkish, and can’t read it either. I have never been to Turkey. I honestly don’t even know that much about Turkey. Why did I ask for a Turkish typewriter, then? Because it has one of the most fascinating keyboard layouts ever: I wanted to share with you five things I learned just from observing and researching this layout.

Gay and bisexual users of the Ashley Madison infidelity website have been left in fear for their lives after it emerged that the identities of users living in countries where homosexuality is illegal and even punishable by death have been posted online.

Five teenagers who survived the atomic bomb recall the early moments of the nuclear age. By Susan Southard.

This app simulates the damage of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 70 years ago on another location, such as your hometown.

Bored of New Apps? This is my tutorial on how to turn your phone into a Hologram Projector!

One of the first Windows 10 features we learned about was the return of the Start menu, which is sort of funny, since the concept of the Start menu is over two decades old. Microsoft tried to replace it with the Start screen in Windows 8, and you only have to look at the adoption numbers to see how most consumers and businesses felt about it.

Find out how to free up space on Google Drive by moving photos and videos to Google Photos.

The Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds from covering abortions, has a grim history in Texas, but congressional Democrats are finally making a move.

Mozilla says that because Adobe's CDM is proprietary "black box" software, it has made certain to wrap it in a sandbox within Firefox so that its code can't interfere with the rest of the browser.