Looks like we’ve got our first peek of LG’s new flagship Android phone, the G6, expected to be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain. The new handset is expected to have rounded corners and a super thin bezel, according to a photo obtained by The Verge. The phone will …

Snapchat is growing up as a place for news. Snap, the parent company for the popular social network, said Monday it updated its guidelines for publishers, cracking down on images that are misleading or have no editorial value. Snapchat also laid out its policy for dealing with material that violates its guidelines, stressing that it will allow inappropriate material if …

Yahoo, dealing with questions around two massive hacks, said Monday it’s pushing the timeline of its expected $4.8 billion buyout by Verizon from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year. “The opportunities ahead with Verizon look bright,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a statement. “Our commitment to our users is unwavering, and we continue to be …

Starting Friday, we’ll officially have our first social media president. Sure, Barack Obama’s ascendancy aligned with the rise of social networks. He broke onto the national political scene in 2004 with a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, the same year Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in a Harvard dorm room. But while Obama’s victory in 2008 was partly due …

The man who created Android, the most popular mobile software on the planet, is preparing his follow up act and it involves going after his longtime nemesis: Apple’s iPhone and its iOS rival software. Andy Rubin, who left Google more than two years ago after selling his startup to the search giant in 2005, is starting Essential, a consumer hardware …

After her company officially sells to Verizon, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is stepping down from the board. It’s been in the headlines for months that Yahoo is selling itself to the telecom giant for $4.8 billion. But actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. Not all of the company is being sold, just Yahoo’s consumer web business, which includes …

Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Jarvis, the artificial intelligence system he built to serve as a digital assistant around his house. Now we know what the software sounds like, and it’s got the voice of God. Well, the guy who played God in movies. Zuckerberg on Tuesday released a video of Jarvis at work, and the software is …

Facebook’s latest innovation: podcasts? The social network said Tuesday it’s launching a new feature called Facebook Live Audio, which is like video live-streaming on Facebook but with no video. So, radio. It’s Facebook radio. To kick things off, the company is partnering with media outlets including BBC World Service and Harper Collins. Facebook said it will expand the feature next …

Now playing: Watch this: Mark Zuckerberg builds his own Jarvis AI 1:36 Mark Zuckerberg has to be feeling a little bit like Tony Stark right now. The Facebook CEO said Monday that he’s finished building his version of Jarvis, the artificially intelligent computer system Stark uses to control his home in the Iron Man movies. Zuckerberg’s Jarvis can do things …

iPhone users: it just got a little easier to handle problems with your phone. Apple has launched a standalone app so people who use iPhones and other iOS devices can keep track of and maintain their gadgets. The app, which Apple previously launched in the Netherlands and Italy, is now available in the US. Apple will roll the app out …