Spotify users can now use the music-streaming service’s app to control Sonos speakers in their home. Spotify Connect, which has been in public beta for the past month, allows Spotify Premium subscribers to stream music from a tablet or phone to any Sonos Wi-Fi compatible speaker on the network, the streaming service said Tuesday. The …

Apple aims to make it easier for you to use the video apps included in your cable or satellite TV subscription. The company on Tuesday launched a new single authentication tool that allows iOS and Apple TV users to enter their account credentials just once to have instant access to the apps from their programming provider. Previously, cable-specific apps such …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube take on terrorist propaganda 0:50 Three of the internet’s biggest social media sites are banding together to curb the rise of online terrorist content. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, along with Microsoft, said Monday they have partnered on creating a shared database of images and videos that promote terrorism. The database will store …

Tim Cook is pretty pleased by sales of the Apple Watch this holiday shopping season. The Apple CEO told Reuters the gadget set a sales record during the first week of holiday shopping and is on track for its best quarter yet. “Our data shows that Apple Watch is doing great and looks to be one of the most popular …

Jagdish Chandra Bose was by all accounts a modern-day renaissance man. Born in what is now known as Bangladesh in 1858, Bose was chiefly a scientist who made several contributions to various fields, including physics, biology and archaeology. But Bose is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in biophysics. To honor Bose’s achievements on his 158th birthday, Google published …

US shoppers made $1.2 billion in purchases with their phones and tablets on Friday, the first time in US retail history that mobile revenue exceeded $1 billion in one day, according to data released Saturday by Adobe. see also Black Friday holiday gift guide Your Black Friday brawl videos, in all their glory Here’s the tech you shouldn’t buy on …

The Twitter account for Jack Dorsey, the social media company’s co-founder and CEO, vanished briefly Tuesday night before reappearing with significantly fewer followers than before. Attempts to visit Dorsey’s account around 6 p.m. PT yielded a standard message indicating his account had been suspended. About 15 minutes later, the account mysteriously reappeared, but instead of the more than 4 million …

Facebook has been working hard to re-enter the Chinese market and it may have landed on a solution. The social-networking giant has quietly developed software that will automatically suppress posts from users’ feeds in specific regions, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The tool, which has been championed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is intended to help the company gain …

Walmart can’t wait for Cyber Monday, so it’s moving its online sales kickoff up a few days to Black Friday. The retail giant said Monday it will launch a “Cyber Week” of online holiday deals beginning on Friday, the day that post-Thanksgiving Day shoppers typically flock to the retail store to slug it out over merchandise. Cyber Monday is traditionally …

Oracle said Monday it had agreed to acquire Dyn, the web services provider hit by a massive internet attack in October that left dozens of popular websites inaccessible for several hours. The privately held New Hampshire-based company is one of the biggest internet management companies in the country and one of a handful of companies that help manage the internet’s …