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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.

Apple has posted earnings of $18 billion on revenue of $74.6bn for the first quarter, setting a new world record for quarterly corporate earnings

Foxconn, manufacturer of the iPhone and many other technology products, will be making redundancies as smartphone demand and prices fall.

Surface tablet passes $1bn revenue milestone, aided by strong cloud service sales

IBM has denied reports that it is about to cut 26% of its workforce as part of a major reorganisation

Apple expected to report most successful quarter ever, with iPhone 6 sales predicted by some to surpass 70 million units.

IBM is reportedly set to axe 26% of its workforce in one go this week, in the largest jobs cut and reorganisation in its history

Ahrendts was Apple's highest-paid employee in 2014, as the company enters fashion industry with Watch.

Cloud storage and file collaboration service Box will go public on Friday with a valuation of $1.67 billion.

With HoloLens, Microsoft proves it can dream as big as Google, but this moonshot needs aiming in a different direction.

Trainline is the most downloaded travel app in the UK.

Under-fire BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants to force companies including Apple and Netflix to create apps for his smartphones.

New research reveals the social network is capitalising on the mobile ad industry.