smartphones

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is cutting 1,850 jobs and will book a $950 million writedown as the company continues its attempts to salvage a rocky entrance into the smartphone market. The company acquired Nokia's phone business in 2014, seeking to capitalize on and the fast-growing industry, but by last summer it was slashing the value of that business and it eliminated 26,000 jobs...

The Associated Press App Store Official Charts for the week ending September 14, 2015: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft: Pocket Edition, Mojang 2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 3. Five Nights at Freddys 4, Scott Cawthon 4. Scribblenauts Remix, Warner Bros...

NEW YORK (AP) — Is the world getting over its love affair with smartphones? Maybe. Gartner Incorporated says worldwide sales of smartphones in the second quarter grew at their slowest pace since 2013. The research firm says part of the reason is that smartphone sales in China declined for the first time...

The Daily Mail of London says that young people suffer gadget withdrawal when separated from their phones.