Sprint has decided that it doesn’t want to let Clearwire out of its sights. The company on Tuesday announced that it has revised its $2.97-per-share offer for Clearwire to $3.40 per share. The increased offer represents a 14 percent increase from Sprint’s previous offer, valuing Clearwire at $10.7 billion. More importantly, it’s 10 cents higher …

Opera Software’s new and improved Android browser has gone gold. The company announced the news on Tuesday, saying that its browser for Android, which was available as beta software in the Google Play marketplace, is now complete and officially launched. Getting it out of beta means that Opera is confident that most of the bugs are gone and the software …

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is on pace to easily surpass its predecessor’s sales record, Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun said Thursday in an interview. Speaking to the Korea Times, the co-CEO said that Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will sell through 10 million units next week, making it the fastest-selling smartphone in the company’s history. Shin told the Korea Times that the Galaxy …

BlackBerry has managed to regain some lost market share in its home country of Canada. In a research note to investors on Thursday, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt reported that while BlackBerry’s market share was just 6 percent in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2012, it jumped to 13.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013. The analyst believes …

An increasing number of people are deciding to dedicate their cash to Apple’s iOS rather than traditional gaming handhelds, according to a new study. A joint study performed by research firms IDC and App Annie found that during the first quarter of 2013, total spending on iOS App Store games outpaced that of dedicated handhelds such as Nintendo’s 3DS and …

PayPal is taking a major leap into the payment-processing space: it’s eliminating fees for businesses that sign up for its service. The news was announced on Tuesday by PayPal president David Marcus, who said that any business that dumps its old point-of-sale (POS) services in favor of PayPal Here — the company’s mobile-payment-processing service — or another POS offering that …

Prepaid smartphone sales are starting to become more popular, according to new data from market researcher NPD Group. NPD released on Wednesday a study that found 32 percent of all smartphone purchases came from prepaid devices during the first quarter. During the same period in 2012, that figure stood at 21 percent. Although “postpaid” devices, which are subsidized but can …

Clearwire’s board of directors has gone through the due diligence evaluating buyout deals and all paths have led it to one conclusion: go with Sprint. In a letter the board wrote to shareholders on Monday, Clearwire’s directors urged their fellow shareholders to accept Sprint’s merger deal with the company when they can vote on the transaction next week. In the …

Android head Sundar Pichai might be new to the job of leading Google’s mobile operating system, but he’s already working at improving the update process for that software. In a Wired interview published Monday, Pichai acknowledged that update paths to new versions of Android can be difficult, but that he and his team “are thinking about how to make Android …

Nokia is taking the fight to Samsung and Apple in a new video posted to YouTube. Dubbed “The Hurricane,” the video follows a roller coaster going around its track as it’s being filmed by Nokia’s new Lumia handset, the Lumia 928, as well as by Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S3. Thanks to the handset’s 8.7-megapixel PureView camera, Nokia …