Samsung expects its biggest operating profit ever in the second quarter, thanks to continued global demand for semiconductors and the popularity of its Galaxy S8 flagship phone. The Korean electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record a 72 percent increase in its second-quarter operating profit. Operating profit for the three-month period ending June 30 …

Samsung‘s infamous Galaxy Note 7 is making a comeback. A refurbished version of the handset, which previously had a tendency to catch fire, will return to market on Friday as the Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition, the electronics giant said Sunday. But the phones, which will use batteries different from those that caused fires last year, will be available only …

Google News got a redesign this week that’s more about facts than fonts. As with any redesign, the aim is to present a cleaner, uncluttered page that makes content easier to find and digest. The desktop News page has adopted a card format intended to help you browse for stories, which will generally be labeled with publisher names and tags …

Pandora is shutting down its operations in Australia and New Zealand, the only countries where the internet radio operates besides the US. The Oakland, California-based company said Tuesday the decision to close operations in the two countries was based on a desire to focus more on growth on its home turf. The move comes amid a management shakeup at the …

Sprint is in exclusive talks with Charter Communications and Comcast over a potential deal that could boost the companies’ wireless service ambitions, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Sprint’s two-month deal for exclusive discussions with the cable companies puts Sprint’s merger talks with T-Mobile on hold, the newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources described as familiar with the matter. The discussions …

Social media giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft said Monday they have created a joint forum to remove extremist content from their respective services. The companies — under pressure after a rash of terrorist attacks — said they would work together to improve and refine existing shared efforts for identifying and removing terrorist content, work with counter-terrorism experts and commission …

How would you like to have your entire medical and health history at your fingertips — literally? No more making multiple calls to get your records — all of your doctor visits, lab results and prescriptions available on your phone, so that you can share the data with new physicians at a moment’s notice? Sound pretty handy? Apple reportedly thinks …

If you are Jet.com customer partial to Kirkland Signature brand products, you’ll soon have to look elsewhere for them. Jet.com, which was purchased last year by Walmart, plans to phase out the Costco-owned brands, Bloomberg reported Monday. Some Kirkland products will still be available on the internet retailer but only through third-party sellers, a spokeswoman told Bloomberg. The move is …

Japan-based tech giant SoftBank has agreed to acquire robots pioneer Boston Dynamics from Google parent company Alphabet, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed. As part of the deal, SoftBank has also agreed to acquire Schaft, a Japan-based bipedal robotics company founded in 2012 and acquired by Google in 2013. Google acquired Boston …

We may not know what delicious dessert the next version of Android will be named after, but the mystery of what its official version number will be has been solved. Android O, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, will be (drumroll, please) Android 8.0, according to information tucked into the third developer preview, released Thursday. It was really …