Apple Pay may arrive early next year in China, the biggest smartphone market in the world. Apple’s electronic-payments service is expected to launch in China in February, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources told the newspaper that the Cupertino, California, tech giant has struck deals with China’s big four state-run banks. The deals will …

LG has stopped taking orders for its Urbane Second Edition smartwatch a little more than a week after the Android wearable went on sale. The company canceled the rollout of the device, the first Android Wear smartwatch with 4G LTE connectivity, because of an unspecified hardware issue, LG said Thursday. It couldn’t say if sales of the smartwatch might be …

TiVo CEO Tom Rogers plans to step down in early 2016 as consumers’ television viewing patterns continue to morph. Rogers, who has been CEO for 10 years, will relinquish his role as chief executive on January 31, the end of TiVo’s fiscal year, the San Jose, California-based company said in a statement Tuesday. Rogers will stay on with the company …

Facebook’s Safety Check status tool, which was activated during Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, remains a “work in progress.” That description from Facebook follows criticism that the social network has chosen not to switch on the feature after violent acts in other parts of the world, including bombings in Beirut one day earlier. Safety Check automatically sends Facebook users in …

Comic book fans who want to catch up with Spider-Man while on the go will have fewer obstacles thanks to new features coming to Google Play Books. Google on Thursday said it is adding features to its e-book app designed to make it easier for fans of the web slinger, caped crusader or man of steel to enjoy their crime-fighting …

The Beats won’t go on at Apple after all. The tech giant will shut down Beats Music on November 30, according to a document published Thursday. All Beats subscriptions will be canceled on that day, but Apple is encouraging subscribers to migrate their user profiles to Apple Music, the music subscription service it launched in June. “All the pros that …

In a bit of irony, Amazon is opening up its first physical bookstore on Tuesday, two decades after launching the online book-sales effort that helped make it an Internet retail giant. Like traditional bookstores, Amazon Books will feature wooden shelves stocked with about 6,000 titles, according to The Seattle Times, which got an early tour of the store in Seattle’s …

Apple is temporarily trimming the price of its Apple Watch by $50 when someone buys it with a new Apple iPhone, an uncommon discount from the tech giant. But don’t race to the online store to place your order: The limited-time promotion is available only through in-store purchases and only at certain retail outlets in the Boston and San Francisco …

Samsung appears to be putting its smartphone sales woes behind it. The last two years have been rough on Samsung, which makes some of the most popular smartphones in the world but hasn’t managed lately to scoop up the same profits as competitor Apple, whose iPhones remain the benchmark for the industry. Part of Samsung’s problem is that it faces …

A new Facebook initiative aims to increase diversity in the tech community by exposing students and their parents to the promise of a career in computer science. The social-networking giant on Wednesday launched an online resources hub called TechPrep that offers information on how under-represented groups, including blacks and Hispanics, can get started toward a career in computer science. Offering …