Google was sued for allegedly abusing its market power by forcing handheld device makers that use its Android operating system to also provide the search engine company's applications.

Google has a strong financial interest in helping Samsung defeat Apple at trial beyond its obligation to pay, it has been revealed.

You are walking down a busy street, eyes down on a text message exchange, when bang - you collide phone - first with a tree, a lamppost or a fellow pedestrian.

Apple's chief executive has shocked some in the US with a direct appeal to climate-change deniers not to buy shares in his firm.

Like many, I have been watching the debate over the amount of tax paid by multinationals like Apple, Google and Facebook among others, operating in NZ, writes Murray Goldsworthy.