Apple wants to help give female developers a boost when it comes to iOS apps. The company on Monday unveiled its new Entrepreneur Camp that’ll help women with an intensive coding lab, specialized support and ongoing mentoring. It’ll bring women to its Cupertino, California, headquarters for two weeks each quarter to help them with one-on-one …

President Donald Trump’s battle with China might hit your next iPhone. Apple designs its phones in the US, but the devices — like many other electronics — are assembled in China. Its products have previously avoided added fees, but Trump, speaking during an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Monday, said he may place tariffs on iPhones and laptop computers …

Uber is taking a wait and see approach when it comes to Saudi Arabia, its CEO said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is a major investor in Uber and also has invested in the company through its partnership with SoftBank. And one of Uber’s board members is Yasir Al Rumayyan, the managing director of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. While Uber and …

Samsung last Wednesday offered the first glimpse of its upcoming foldable phone, saying it’ll be mass produced “in the coming months.” Justin Denison, Samsung senior vice president of mobile marketing, showed off the phone, which is a tablet when it’s fully opened and then a phone when it’s closed. It uses a new display technology called Infinity Flex Display that …

Washington may not “agree on the freezing point of water,” as AT&T’s CEO put it, but it should pass legislation to protect consumer privacy and net neutrality.  Randall Stephenson, speaking Monday at the Wall Street Journal D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, called for Congress to figure out a way to protect consumers. “I’d love to see legislation, not regulation,” …

Google is committed to diversity and supports its employees in their protests, the company’s financial chief said Monday. Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, said Monday during the Wall Street Journal D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that she participated in this month’s walkouts with her financial team.  “Diversity overall makes an organization stronger,” she said. “People …

Samsung has created smart TV software you can control with your brainwaves.  The research, called Project Pontis, aims to make Samsung’s televisions more accessible for people with physical disabilities like quadriplegia. The company wants to enable “users with physical limitations to change channels and adjust sound volume with their brains.” Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s smart TV software is controlled …

Samsung’s trying to make it easier to use its smartphones by redesigning the software running on them.  The company on Wednesday unveiled its new One UI user interface. It will roll the software out to the Galaxy S9, S9 Plus and Note 9 in January — and the interface will be on the upcoming foldable phone that Samsung showed for …

Samsung’s Bixby digital assistant is getting a boost in capabilities — but the question is whether it’s too late. The South Korean company on Wednesday will kick off its two-day developer conference in San Francisco, an annual event that reflects the company’s big push to get developers to make software specifically for its devices. In the past, that’s meant making …

Qualcomm has to license its wireless chip patents to its competitors, a judge ruled Tuesday. District Court Judge Lucy Koh granted the US Federal Trade Commission’s motion for partial summary judgment in its suit against Qualcomm. The FTC had sought a ruling that declared “two industry agreements obligate Qualcomm to license its essential patents to competing modem chip suppliers.” Koh …