Oh it’s a jolly holiday for Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO finished up a trip to Europe on Thursday with a day out at the VivaTech conference in Paris, where he was greeted with rapturous applause from the audience and didn’t have to answer a single question from an indignant politician about his company’s part …

Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has redefined Twitter. The US president has become a force to be reckoned with on the social media platform, dictating policy via tweets, firing off midnight missives, blocking his dissenters and redefining the diplomatic agenda (hashtag Little Rocket Man). But while his opponents argue that Trump’s behaviour on Twitter contravenes the platform’s terms of …

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only Silicon Valley CEO touring this Europe this week hoping to make a positive impression.  Hot on his heels is the chief executive of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi. On Wednesday, Khosrowshahi met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss Uber’s commitment to the country. The same day, he announced AXA insurance for all drivers across the continent. …

Over the past few months, the combination of Google and PayPal have become a go-to service whenever you’re paying for something. Buying something in a store? You can use PayPal via Google Pay. Owe your friends money? You can use Venmo (which is owned by PayPal). Paying for Google services? That’s PayPal territory, too. As far as Google’s concerned, it’s …

If you’re looking for a budget phone, the “late spring” shipping date for Motorola‘s Moto G6 has morphed into “now” for Verizon customers. You can buy it on the Verizon Wireless site for $240 outright, or in 24 monthly installments for $10.  And no, this isn’t a preorder. The phone seems to be available for for you to pick up, at least …

The DJI Spark is a terrific little drone, notable for packing lots of advanced features into a compact frame. Among those features: gesture-controlled operation, which would seem to obviate the need for a remote. But I strongly recommend getting one, in part because it makes the Spark easier to control and in part because it extends the range. Normally it’s …

HTC recently teased the launch of its next marquee phone, promising on Twitter, “A phone that is more than the sum of its specs.” The meaning of that statement has turned into a whole other kettle of fish, with HTC explaining that the parts in question “represent the jumble of parts (specs) that our competitors inelegantly cram into their phones, …

Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …

The expensive, geek-friendly Nvidia Shield TV streamer can pretty much do it all, but until now its menu system hasn’t been as customizable as those of competitors Apple TV and Roku. That changes with the latest software update, which brings the new version of Google’s Android TV operating system, 8.0 aka Oreo, and with it a revamped home page. Gone …

Though Apple publicly held its ground about the solid design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, court documents from the “touch disease” class-action lawsuit seem to state otherwise.  According to the public documents, which were obtained by Motherboard, Apple’s “internal testing ‘determined that the iPhone 6 was 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5S … and that the …