Strategies & Solutions News

Google created a software developer page on its social network, ramping up app creation efforts to compete with Facebook.

Apple customers are often lifetime brand consumers, giving the company a strong financial edge over competition in the long-term.

Verizon plans to offer a "double-data" promotion, as the carrier attempts to boost its 4G LTE network.

Tech companies may have to gear their products to a new set of consumers instead of "early adopters," as audiences for their products grow to enclose larger swaths of the general population.

Verizon and Redbox plan to launch an online media-streaming service, forging a partnership to compete in the crowded field of digital content delivery.

Most of Facebook's users and its top executive officer are female, but its board remains all-male, drawing negative attention as the social network becomes a publicly traded company.

The Obama administration is urging a nationwide transition to digital textbooks, underscoring a need for partnership between tech companies, publishers, and schools to improve learning.

Research In Motion is offering free BlackBerry PlayBooks to Android developers, as the struggling company tries to boost apps for its stumbling platform.

President Barack Obama has started an initiative to develop video games that are educational and healthy for people of all ages, using gaming's growing audience to boost citizens' fitness and political participation.

Apple hired a former member of Microsoft's Xbox Live team to head its App Store in Europe, in a move to boost its momentum in apps and games.

A pending bill in Missouri requires wireless carriers to show cell phone locations to law enforcement pursuing missing persons cases, as laws catch up with the pace of today's technologies.

Wireless carriers, increasingly concerned about a looming spectrum shortage, are talking crisis and rate hikes, but some think the shortage may be exaggerated.

Smartphone leasing is on the horizon, shaking up the mobile industry and providing new options for carriers and consumers.

Sony's new CEO Kaz Hirai presented comprehensive plans to reverse the company's flagging fortunes, as it faces an uphill battle to regain traction in the market.

Microsoft's ad campaign is using concern over Google's new privacy policies and search features to promote its own products, as the two companies battle for users.