Zillow Digs, the real estate aggregator’s new app for home improvement information. Zillow Real-estate search site Zillow has been hit with a lawsuit by a former employee who claims to be a victim of ageism. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, Jennifer Young, “a forty-one year-old …

The new Amazon Elements lineup speaks to consumers who want in-depth information about where products come from. Amazon/Screenshot by CNET Parents of infants know two things for sure: they’re facing a relentless demand for diapers, and they’re not going out to dinner like they used to. Now Amazon has a pair of new offerings that address both of those predicaments. …

Daniel Terdiman/CNET The US National Security Agency has the ability to target cellular networks around the world and collect information at will, a new report from The Intercept claims. Dubbed Auroragold, the previously undiscovered NSA program allows the clandestine agency to exploit security vulnerabilities — and even to introduce new ones — in cell networks to help it eavesdrop on …

Microsoft has officially exited the Nook e-reader and tablet business. Barnes & Noble The joint venture between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble designed to revive the ailing Nook Media business is unraveling. The companies announced Thursday that B&N will buy out the Windows maker’s stake in Nook Media — the corporation jointly owned by Microsoft and B&N — for $62.4 …

The iPhone might not account for the most shipments, but it will generate serious revenue. Sarah Tew Android continues to dominate the smartphone business and will likely do so for the foreseeable future, new data from research firm IDC shows. But overall growth in the smartphone market is slowing. Total Android shipments this year are expected to hit 1.06 billion …

Samsung’s troubles have prompted the company to issue a stock-buyback program. CNET Samsung Electronics — the division of Samsung that produces a wide range of devices, including smartphones and wearables — has announced a major stock-buyback program. Samsung plans to buy back 1.9 million shares of stock, representing about 1.1 percent of its total shares outstanding, for approximately $2 billion, …

There’s no telling just yet what Sony has up its sleeve for a new smartwatch. Sarah Tew/CNET Sony is working on a new smartwatch where the entire surface — the watch face and wrist band — would act as a display, reported Bloomberg on Wednesday. The smartwatch would use a patented technology called e-paper, sources told Bloomberg. It’s not exactly …

The Samsung Galaxy S5 hasn’t proven as popular as the Galaxy S4. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy S5 might be one of the most advanced smartphones the company has launched, but it’s reportedly not selling as well as the company hoped. In the first three months since its April release, Samsung sold 40 percent fewer of the big-screen Galaxy S5 smartphones …

A look inside the Google Nexus 6. iFixit The Nexus 6, Google’s new flagship smartphone, has earned a decent score for repairability. iFixit, a company that sells repair tools for mobile devices and analyzes the difficulty of repair, gave the Nexus 6 a score of seven out of 10 for repairability — with 10 being the easiest to fix. On …

Google has partnered with handset makers Micromax, Karbonn and Spice to bring phones that cost about $100 to India. Getty Google and its low-cost Android One phones for emerging markets are in hot water over the handling of the sale of the devices online, says a new report. Some of the largest brick-and-mortar retail chains in India, which combined have …