Verizon Reaches Agreement to Acquire Vodafone's 45 Percent Interest in Verizon Wireless for $130 Billion  —  Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Vodafone Group Plc (London, Nasdaq: VOD) to acquire Vodafone's U.S. group …

CBS and Time Warner Cable reach deal, finally end month-long blackout  —  CBS channels have been missing from Time Warner Cable for a full month now, but the companies have finally solidified a deal.  In a press release, the companies report that they've reached a retransmission agreement …

Acer announces 6-inch Liquid S2, ‘first 4K-recording smartphone’  —  Compared to many other companies, Acer's taken a rather cautious approach to super-sized phones.  Its first attempt was the 5.7-inch Liquid S1, a rather straightforward Android handset unveiled back in June at Computex.

Balky carriers and slow OEMs step aside: Google is defragging Android  —  Android 4.3 was released to Nexus devices a little over a month ago, but, as is usual with Android updates, it's taking much longer to roll out the general public.  Right now, a little over six percent of Android users have the latest version.

Which Start-Up Could Be the Next Big Thing?  —  When it comes to technology start-ups, there are a lot of paths to success.  —  Some successful start-ups sell for a billion dollars, as Tumblr did this year to Yahoo.  When that happens, it's a windfall for the founders of the start-ups as well as for the investors and some employees.

Facebook vulnerability that allowed any photo to be deleted earns $12,500 bounty  —  An Indian electronics and communications engineer who describes himself as a “security enthusiast with a passion for ethical hacking” has discovered a Facebook vulnerability that could have allowed for any photo …

Photos claim to show ‘iPhone 5C’ packaging, color-matched wallpapers  —  As Apple's September 10th iPhone event approaches, a few new photos claiming to show packaged “iPhone 5Cs” and accompanying materials have surfaced online.  The first photo comes from website iApps.im …

Nintendo in Crisis  —  When Apple was on the ropes sixteen years ago, there was no shortage of advice about what the company should do to save itself, much of it fueled by a deep love for Apple's products.  It takes a diehard Apple fanatic to create something like the iconic “Pray” …

Happy 10th birthday Skype.  You changed everything; too bad you didn't change Microsoft  —  Very quietly today, Skype turned ten years old.  Ironically, I didn't even remember its 10th birthday.  I forgot, mostly because ever since it was acquired by Microsoft, Skype as we know is slowly losing its identity.

Hey, startups: Pretty soon you'll be able to talk about your fundraising efforts  —  The world changes for startups on September 23.  How?  On that date, thanks to the JOBS Act, it will become legal for startups to “generally solicit” and “generally advertise” their securities offerings.

AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records  —  Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that's passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years.