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The deal for the maker of high–end audio equipment and the subscription streaming music service is Apple's largest acquisition ever. It calls for Beats co-founders Dr. Dre, a Grammy-winning hip-hop pioneer, and Jimmy Iovine, a veteran music executive, …

MUSIC MOVE: Beats originally found success with high–end headphones, but the deal moves Apple into the music subscription space. Apple has agreed to buy Beats Electronics for US$3 billion (NZ$3.5b) , its biggest-ever acquisition, nabbing a popular line …

Samsung exec Luc Julia, formerly a key developer of Apple's digital assistant Siri, demonstrated at an event in November how the nascent SAMI platform would synch to wearable devices and wireless gadgets in the home. … company appears to be taking …

Also, those products will continue to work on mobile gadgets that run on rival Google's Android platform. While Android has become the world's largest mobile platform, Apple has refused to make … And it is endorsed by a number of high-profile …

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South Korea's LG Electronics Inc launched a revamped version of its flagship G3 high–end smartphone at a discount to its predecessor model on Wednesday and said it would ship more than 10 million units to improve its ailing handset business. LG hopes …

Its rear camera has just a 5-megapixel resolution, which is much lower than what you'll find on higher–end devices. The problem … Just one or two high-quality games or a two-week's vacation worth of photos can easily exceed that amount. And when it …

Online shopping marches on – in gadgets, appliances, books, music and many families' weekly grocery shop. Banks won't lend. … The internet is less damaging to small retailers who have lived through the recession, or to high street start-ups with web …