Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos wants control of the smartphone home screen so he can put more of the firm's services in front of consumers.

Tax breaks for Apple, Starbucks and Fiat are under investigation in a clampdown on special treatment for companies.

There's a whole world of products out there, but Google and Apple are behind a lot of the ones we choose between every day. Neither company is happy about that fragmentation. They want everyone to use all of their products.

Apple's pitch to developers at its annual conference this week shows how CEO Tim Cook is ramping up efforts to keep programmers from switching loyalties to Google and others.

Wearables, Cceaper streaming subscriptions and remotely controlled home electronics are the changes consumers are likely to see as Apple buys Beats Electronics.

Musicians are worried that Apple's push into streaming music will pay far less in royalties and will turn music buyers into music listeners.

A couple of years ago I talked about Judit Klein, a very clever student following the Creative Technologies course at AUT. Judit had won a scholarship to visit Apple's famed annual Worldwide Developers' Conference.

Jimmy Iovine will become a billionaire if Apple completes a deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion and Dr Dre won't be far behind.

When Kanye West was asked by Rolling Stone magazine to write a panegyric to Dr Dre, he had no fear of hyperbole.

Apple and Samsung placed their trust in a retired IBM executive with patent litigation experience to give them a fair trial.

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.