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From CarPlay and Maps, to challenging Google and Tesla - five reasons why we think Apple is exploring the car industry with project Titan.

From a mysterious van spotted in San Francisco, to employees poached from Tesla, this is everything we know about Apple's Project Titan

Apple is claimed to be developing a car which will "give Tesla a run for its money"

Elon Musk's Tesla electric car company is creating a battery pack to power our homes, and production could begin in six months

Elon Musk urged investors to stay calm and predicts strong sales growth in 2015.

Rogue software update caused Samsung smart TVs to show Pepsi adverts while users watched their own, locally-stored videos

Google I/O, the company's annual showcase and keynote address, set for 28 and 29 May, with ticket lottery returning to cope with demand

Three has closed the gap on EE as the best mobile phone network in the UK while Vodafone continues to struggle.

Chipmaker reaches settlement with Chinese government and agrees to pay $975m fine over antitrust violations.

One of Hollywood's most powerful women resigns after hacking scandal

BT has finalised the deal to purchase EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for cash and shares totalling £12.5 billion

More than 100,000 merchants now accept bitcoin, including Microsoft, Expedia and Twitch.

Three-day test sees Chinese online retail giant Alibaba deliver packages of ginger tea, within an hour, by drone

Minivan adorned with up to a dozen cameras and registered to Apple has led to speculation that it could be testing a driverless car

San Francisco-based Lending Club is an online match-maker connecting borrowers with lenders for a fee.

Uber's driverless car research contradicts company's policy to be 'biggest job-producing company'.

International payments startup Adyen integrates bitcoin payment processor BitPay

Apple is to spend $1 billion converting its failed sapphire iPhone screen factory into a command hub for its data centres

Monday's $6.5bn debt sale is the tech giant's fourth major debt offering in two years.

World's most powerful commercial quantum computer, featuring a 1,152-qubit processor, to be released in March.

If Obama proposal is enacted, US companies will face a 14% tax bill on billions of dollars held overseas

Sony to boost capacity in Japan to 80,000 wafers a month by the end of June 2016, from about 60,000 a month at present.

Quantum computing firm D-Wave raises C$29m in quest to bring about technological revolution.

Microsoft wants to increase use of its apps and services on Android by investing in Cyanogen

The company has been deemed 'insufficient to pay its debts' in a lawsuit filed by Flextronics.

Facebook's revenue grew 49 percent in the fourth quarter, as mobile advertising growth helped the world's largest Internet social network beat Wall Street's targets for earnings and sales.

IBM staff to have one-on-one meetings as lay-offs start around the world.

From record iPhone sales to unprecedented profits, we look at the figures behind Apple's record quarterly results.

Windows RT mobile operating system dead in all but name as Microsoft ends production of Surface 2.