Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Fire smartphone to 99 cents with a two-year contract through AT&T Inc., seeking to boost adoption of the device six weeks after it went on sale. Amazon Fire review: Features offer new ways to use smartphones, but no need ...

Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Fire smartphone to 99 cents with a two-year contract through AT&T Inc., seeking to boost adoption of the device six weeks after it went on sale. Amazon Fire review: Features offer new ways to use smartphones, but no need ...

WASHINGTON — Google Inc has agreed to refund at least US$19 million to parents who were unfairly billed for charges racked up by children playing video games such as Ice Age Village and Air Penguins on smartphones and tablets. Children sometimes ...

Billionaire Richard Branson said he's seeking an audience with President Vladimir Putin as business leaders call for a peaceful end to the conflict in Ukraine amid concern that Russia may invade its neighbour. Branson was joined by 15 businesspeople ...

Australian mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. did the expected on Tuesday, announcing plans to spin off a new mining company that will hold its unwanted assets. They include its entire aluminum and manganese businesses as well as coal, silver and nickel ...

Google Inc. is making a big push into the car and into emerging markets with low-cost phones, pitting it head to head against BlackBerry Ltd. on two key points on its roadmap to profitability. Google's I/O 2014 keynote as it happened. Read a blow-by-blow ...

Twelve of the world's most powerful petroleum ministers gathered around a horseshoe of tables in Vienna this week to pass judgment on the oil market. One of them sounded happier than the rest. “This is the best time for the market,” Ali al-Naimi, Saudi ...

Apple Inc.'s US$3.2-billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics, if consummated, will get a lot of attention due to its price tag as the tech giant's biggest deal to date. But there is more to the acquisition than meets the eye. Given Apple's US$150-billion in cash and ...

TORONTO — For some longtime smartphone users, Apple's iPhones and Samsung's Galaxy phones are starting to feel a little boring. Sure, the newest models are always packed with a good number of incremental upgrades that keep the devices top of mind ...

Lufthansa announced Tuesday it would be cancelling roughly 3,800 flights over the next three days, including to and from destinations in Canada, in anticipation of a planned walk-out by its cockpit crews. Air Canada, which is a partner of Lufthansa in the Star ...

Lufthansa announced Tuesday it would be cancelling roughly 3,800 flights over the next three days, including to and from destinations in Canada, in anticipation of a planned walk-out by its cockpit crews. Air Canada, which is a partner of Lufthansa in the Star ...

The latest United Nations report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is something of brain twister. Not in itself, since the report released Monday follows the familiar IPCC alarmist pattern set many decades ago: Catastrophe looms and ...

When Barack Obama sits down tomorrow with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, he'll do so knowing the U.S. is importing the least crude in two decades, a shift changing America's strongest relationship in the Arab world. Five years after Obama's first visit to ...

Ukraine reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to unlock US$27 billion of international support to avert default and limit economic damage from a four-month political crisis. The government in Kiev reached a staff-level agreement with ...

Facebook Inc.'s US$2-billion acquisition of Oculus VR may look modest when compared to its recent US$19-billion purchase of WhatsApp, but there appears to be a clearer path for monetizing this new asset through game-related software and hardware.

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp. on Monday released a version of its OneNote note-taking software for Macs and added new features and a free tier for all of the software's users in moves clearly targeted at up-and-coming productivity software rival Evernote.

Brent and U.S. crude oil rallied more than $2 per barrel to multi-month highs on Monday, lifted by rising tension in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade his neighbour. Russia is the world's biggest oil producer and ...

Facebook Inc.'s US$19-billion purchase of WhatsApp may seem expensive on the surface, but it looks like a steal when you consider the messaging application's massive user base. The acquisition also gives Facebook a huge leg-up in mobile messaging, ...