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Startups have reached out to help provide power and food to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

After the launch of the Surface tablet, Microsoft (MSFT) is reportedly is busy testing a smartphone with Asian suppliers.

AT&T and T-Mobile have decided to share their network in the New York/ New Jersey area following Hurricane Sandy's devastating spell over the East Coast.

Phone outages created by Hurricane Sandy are likely to get worse before getting better, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski warned Tuesday.

Sprint-Nextel Corp. reported a third-quarter loss below estimates but also said it had lost about 456,000 mobile subscribers.

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) will report a third-quarter loss but investors await subscriber numbers and comment about SoftBank's acquisition bid.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), the No. 1 telecommunications carrier, reported third-quarter net income that narrowly exceeded estimates.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) reports third-quarter results Wednesday which are generally expected to be about flat with last year’s.

Stanford Ovshinsky, credited as the brain behind batteries for smartphones and hybrids, succumbed to prostate cancer Wednesday at the ripe age of 89.

Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins defended the BlackBerry after the New York Times published a story citing user “dissatisfaction."

In Verizon’s new privacy policy, the phone and Internet giant added a clause that allows the wireless company to share more of a customer’s data with advertisers.

The Verizon Wireless unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) added 1.7 million customers in the third quarter for a record 95.7 million.

Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) took control of Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) adding more spectrum for high-speed communications.

Top global electronics brands Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Nokia, Google and Amazon share a common problem: they're customers of Taiwan’s Foxconn.

Globally, the number of smartphone users has risen above a billion for the first time ever, in the third quarter of 2012, a report released by US research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics stated Wednesday.

Once a collector's item, BlackBerry is no longer viewed as a connoisseur's must-have as more users are tempted by the iPhones and Androids.

Could Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), be on the prowl for a unit of Texas Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: TXN)?

Sprint-Nextel Corp. could be controlled by one of Japan's more colorful billionaires.

Softbank (Tokyo: 9984) announced its bid to acquire 70 percent of Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S).

Shares of Softbank (Tokyo: 9984) fell 20 percent Friday on reports of the takeover of Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S)

Shares of Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) soared on Softbank takeover reports. Here's why they'd make a deal.

Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930) said third-quarter operating income nearly doubled to 8.1 trillon won (US $7.3 billion), on huge demand for new Galaxy S III phones.

It's been a year since Steve Jobs died. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is humming. But could it encounter problems.

Sprint (NYSE: S) fell 3 percent Thursday on the heels of the effective acquisition of MetroPCS Communications Inc. by an arm of Deutsche Telekom.

Ailing Nokia Oyj (NYSE: NOK) said it’s exploring the sale of its headquarters complex in Espoo, Finland, in a bid to raise as much as €300 million ($387.4 million).

The board of MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS) has approved merger with Deutsche Telekom's (Pink: DTEGY) T-Mobile USA unit, German newspaper Financial Times Deutschland reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the deal.

Deutsche Telekom (Pink: DTEGY) and Metro PCS Communications (NYSE: PCS) have agreed to create the No. 4 U.S. mobile carrier.

Shares of MetroPCS Communications (NYSE: PCS) leaped 25 percent after Deutsche Telekom (Pink: DTEGY) said it was bidding for a majority stake.

RIM reported encouraging results, but it's still gambling BlackBerry 10 can be finished before cash needs force alternatives.