Steve Jobs, who mentored Silicon Valley technology leaders in the months before he died, said he admired Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for “not selling out.” “We talk about social networks in the plural, but I don’t see anybody other than Facebook out there,” Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson in excerpts of an interview released online by “60 Minutes,” the CBS television show. “Jus...

PARIS (AFP) - The largest study of its kind found no link between long-term use of mobile phones and increased risk of brain tumours, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Friday. Danish researchers found no evidence of enhanced risk among more than 350,000 mobile-phone subscribers whose health was monitored over 18 years. Earlier research on the possible link between cell phone use and...

Samsung Electronics Co. outpaced Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market by more than 10 million handsets during the third quarter of the year, industry data showed Friday. According to the data, Samsung Electronics sold about 27 million smartphones during the July-to-Sept. period, while Apple’s figure came in at about 17 million. While those in the industry had forecast that Samsung Electro...

As Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. wage legal battles across the world, two of their top executives have met to discuss long-term parts cooperation and maintaining existing partnerships. Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer (COO) of Samsung Electronics said Wednesday he had discussed long-term parts cooperation arrangements with Apple Inc.'s chief Tim Cook. The meeting took place Monday...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Apple Inc. on Monday said it sold more than 4 million units of the new iPhone model in three days _ meaning it's selling more than twice as fast as the previous model did when it launched last year. Apple and its phone company partners started selling the iPhone 4S on Friday in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain. They are coming to 22 more countries b...

Lee Jae-yong, chief operating officer of Samsung Electronics Co., is planning to attend a memorial service for Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple Inc., in the U.S. this weekend, industrial sources said Sunday. Lee, the only son of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, has been invited by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook to the invitation-only memorial service for Jobs, according to sou...

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't just the latest iPhone that drew people to Apple stores Friday. Many consumers waited in lines for hours — sometimes enduring chilly temperatures and overnight thunderstorms — to remember Steve Jobs, Apple's visionary who died last week. The company's first iPhone release since Jobs' death turned into another tribute. Some customers even joked that the new model 4S sto...