While the late release of the iPhone 4S likely hampered Apple’s record for the year, Samsung soared overall because of its strategy to offer more smartphones with varying price points and operating systems.

Facebook could possibly go for a valuation between $75 billion to $100 billion if or when the social network goes public next week.

UPDATE: The White House has released a statement confirming Chopra’s departure.

Former Palm head Jon Rubinstein is leaving Hewlett-Packard, according to a new report.

Apple is still in the lead as iPad shipments are doing pretty well at 57.6 percent, but the global market share gap between iOS and Android is really starting to close.

Reddit is hands-down one of the most philanthropic communities on the Internet. Here’s just one of the many stories that showcase how.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that 20 to 25 percent of qualified workers fail to claim their Earned Income Tax Credit each year.

Apple is under fire for its supply chain labor, but every tech item—and thing you own—goes through the same manufacturing paces.

In a research note earlier this week, a team of Jefferies analysts made the case that Wi-Fi will squeeze the pricing power for mobile data. It’s a good argument.

Both AT&T and Verizon have the sizzle with smartphones, but enterprise services could very well be the meat of their results in upcoming years.

A slew of new products is going to hurt Riverbed’s first quarter.

Juniper warned that its first quarter will miss targets due to the economy and its effects on IT buyers.

CEO Sanjay Jha said the company saw a “very positive consumer response to Motorola RAZR.”

Access to Google+ is available now for anyone who is old enough for a Google Account. Google also announced new online safety enhancements simultaneously to ease the worries of parents.

Rhapsody is one of the older players in the digital music spectrum, but it has come on stronger in the last few months with major acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe.

Among the information workers toting Apple devices 11 percent carry iPhones, 9 percent iPads, 8 percent Macs and 6 percent have two or more devices.

Nearly 50 percent of American adults think that e-readers, tablets, smartphones and other electronic devices could benefit students rather than distract them, according to a new poll.

The consumerization of IT: is it driven by a few Apple-loving top executives, or many workers below? A new report suggests that it’s the former. We’re not so sure.

Can Nokia significantly boost Lumia sales given that sales of Symbian devices are falling off a cliff? Probably not.

AT&T is upbeat on 2012 following a strong fourth quarter in smartphone sales. AT&T, however, reported a big net loss.

CEO Reed Hastings took questions about a lot of possibilities for the future of Netflix, and he shot many of them down.

SmartPlanet visits Google and looks at an internal application called Data Hound which helps gather the utterances and build a model for the product.

Citrix, Symantec and Sandisk all had better-than-expected December quarters. Outlooks, however, were light in some cases.

Domestic streaming-only subscriptions for Netflix grew from 220,000 to 21.67 million during the fourth quarter.

A now-former Windstream employee is in jail after using his employer’s customer database for identity theft purposes.

HP execs explain that the shift to commit webOS to open source is a “decisive step” towards meeting its “goal of accelerating the platform’s development.”

Amazon has debuted a new service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload data to Amazon Web Services cloud space.

New research from Google shows that smartphone usage is surging globally, especially in the U.S. and Western Europe. Beyond just device sales, this could mean bigger things for advertisers.

Even with a native Android browser on deck, there’s a good argument to be made that Mozilla is already too late.

Apple is seeing a halo effect in its corporate, consumer and education accounts.

Many executives argue that allowing personal technologies in the workplace is not actually a strong recruitment or retention tool, according to a new report.

The company’s new growth engines—HANA and mobile—are delivering solid results and may set the stage for SAP in future years.

The numbers really speak for themselves as to how well Apple did in its first fiscal quarter of 2012 in other areas besides iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is absolutely correct that the iCloud is a strategy for the next decade. The catch is that many others have the same outlook.