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Toronto's main stock index turned higher on Tuesday morning, hitting a one-month peak and reversing steep losses in volatile trade as gold prices rallied following grim U.S. consumer confidence data.

Shares of WebMD surged nearly 9 percent after activist investor Carl Icahn reported acquiring an 8 percent stake in the New York-based medical website.

What advice does Research in Motion have for BlackBerry users unhappy with their device? Buy a new BlackBerry.

David Stern has a cold. The NBA commissioner is sick of the NBA lockout and sick of the negotiations and labor talks that have come with it in the past few weeks.

BBX, the operating system that Research In Motion is counting on to revive its floundering BlackBerry franchise, has run into trouble even before the company could install the system in its smartphone line.

Motorola took the wraps off the new Droid Razr on Tuesday, announcing that it will be available for pre-order October 27 and will hit Verizon Wireless stores early in November. As Motorola's iconic brand, the Droid Razr is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone to date and among the lightest ever made.

Law firms in the United States and Canada are exploring possible consumer lawsuits against Research In Motion Ltd for last week's BlackBerry outages, which for three days crippled email and messaging for tens of millions of users around the world.

Microblogging service Twitter is looking for a director to bolster its board's business credentials and diversity, and candidates include a former Google Inc executive, a person familiar with the matter said.

Samsung released its newest Google smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus, Tuesday night. It is the newest competitor in a long list of smartphones, including the iPhone 4S and Motorola's Droid RAZR. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes with the newest Google OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Motorola also introduced their new Droid RAZR Tuesday. Motorola and Samsung both seek to capture a share of the iPhone 4S' market, but how will the Android phones compete against each other? We look at the expec......

Jaguar Financial, a Research In Motion investor agitating for a shake-up, said two independent RIM directors canceled meetings called this week to discuss complaints about the BlackBerry maker.

Research In Motion will introduce souped-up operating software for its BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet, aiming to make them more formidable competitors to Apple and Google devices.

Dropbox was once sought after by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The company denied Apple the sale and went on to build one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley. Their most recent round of venture capital funding earned them $257.2 million.

Motorola introduced the new Droid RAZR Tuesday, adding a new smartphone to the competition after the iPhone 4S was released in stores on Friday. Motorola seeks to target this market of die-hard smartphone fans, but can the new Motorola Droid RAZR compete with the popular iPhone 4s? We look at the expected specs and features of the new Motorola Droid RAZR and compare it with the current iPhone 4S.

Research In Motion on Tuesday unveiled a mobile platform that combines features of the legacy software used in its BlackBerry smartphones with the new QNX operating system used in its PlayBook tablet computer.

Now that it’s betting $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, Google plans to unveil its latest version of the Android OS, known as “Ice Cream Sandwich,” at a Hong Kong event Wednesday with Samsung Electronics.

BlackBerry maker RIM announced Monday that it would be offering a one-month extension as well as more than $100 worth of premium apps to its customers for free - an apology of sorts to its millions of disgruntled customers, who suffered global outages last week. The free downloads and service extension come appended to the most recent of a series of apologies issued by RIM for outages that spanned parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Canada and the U.S. Mike Lazaridis, co-C.E.O. of RI...

iCloud and Siri voice recognition are only two of the five major reasons why iPhone 4S sold four million in three days.

Following a worldwide three day outage last week, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to give away a dozen free BlackBerry apps to customers for download and free technical to corporate customers.

Shares of Research In Motion dropped more than 5 percent on Monday after it sought to appease disgruntled BlackBerry customers by offering free apps and technical support to make up for last week's global smartphone outage.

An offer of free games, translation software or other apps to compensate BlackBerry users for last week's prolonged outage left Research In Motion investors cool on Monday, and the shares fell 6 percent.

For the first time, activist investor Carl Icahn declared he will not participate in shareholder efforts to shake up BlackBerry developer Research in Motion.