If you’re in the market for a new phone, here’s an offer to consider. On Tuesday, Amazon added the Moto G Play to its collection of Prime Exclusive handsets. Available for $100 — a discount of $50 from its full retail price — the Android-powered smartphone has modest specs but is unlocked and supports various …

Now playing: Watch this: Chip designer ARM to be acquired by Softbank for $32… 1:52 Softbank’s bid to buy chip designer ARM Holdings is a done deal. The Japanese telecom giant on Monday said the $32 billion (£24 billion) acquisition is complete. The purchase was first announced in July and is part of Softbank’s push to expand its presence in …

T-Mobile just fired another salvo across Verizon’s bow, saying that big red’s LTE Advanced cellular network is nothing of the sort. “Really? LTE Advanced? That same technology has been available to T-Mobile customers since 2014,” wrote T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray in a blog post Tuesday. This the latest attack in a recent war of words between the carriers …

The road to mobile payments in the US has been bumpy. Perhaps a new deal between PayPal and Mastercard will help pave the way toward a truly smooth shopping experience via phones at retail. PayPal, the digital wallet service of choice since the early days of e-commerce, has now entered a partnership with traditional payment processing firm Mastercard. The fruit …

Golf is a challenging game but help — in the form of smart shoes — is on the way. Samsung spin-off Salted Venture on Tuesday confirmed its Iofit shoes have landed on Kickstarter and should hit stores in February 2017. With an expected sticker price of $260, early bird backers of the project should be able to scoop up a …

Once the unrivaled king of mobile photo sharing, Instagram has now taken a page from the Snapchat playbook. The app has just added a stories feature to its arsenal to let users keep a 24-hour snapshot of personal photos and video. As with the stories function cooked up and popularized by social media competitor Snapchat, Instagram account holders have the …

Now playing: Watch this: Pokemon Go trackers shut down 1:14 If you’re one of many who use third-party apps within Pokemon Go to track down virtual monsters, chances are you’ve been frustrated lately. A recent update removed certain features and prevented third-party software from working. Now Niantic, creator of the game, has broken its silence and acknowledged it’s behind the …

Software that lets websites check the battery life of your mobile devices could also be compromising your privacy. Privacy researchers have pointed out before that the HTML 5 battery status API, a web standard intended to allow sites to serve up low-power version to phones running out of juice, could also be used to identify specific phones by their battery …

The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court decision that ruled in favor of Apple at Samsung’s expense. The case centers on smartphone patent rights and whether Samsung is on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. A jury ordered that Samsung must pay Apple to atone for patent infringements. The Justice …

Lenovo definitely believes in the old adage that money talks, announcing at the Lenovo Tech World Event that it’s pledging a $1 million cash prize to the winner of the company’s Moto Mods developer design contest. Unlike Google’s Project Ara phones, the planned Moto Mod hardware modules will be hot-swappable. That means you’ll be able to snap modules in and …