SmartThings makes a mobile app and a software platform for controlling household objects.

The app adds scheduling and location functionality to text messaging.

Underscores commitment to customer value, extends big data portfolio, and expands the capabilities of Teradata's Unified Data Architecture.

In a separate development, Google said the team at wireless company Alpental Technologies had joined it.

Wander's chief app 'Days' will live on, the startup said.

Telecommunications provider, Telstra, is set to make $454 million from a new strategic partnership with Platinum Equity as it prepares to sell 70 per cent of its stake in its directories business, Sensis, to the US-based private equity firm.

Boston Dynamics' robots move like humans, four-legged animals, and one shifts its shape to fit through tight spaces.

Expect more deals next year, says analyst.

Onavo's technology will be used to connect more people to the Internet, Facebook said.

Real time procurement savings tool is a winner.

The company provides pattern matching technology for network security applications.

Nokia will focus on network infrastructure, mapping and locations services and technology development and licensing.

Facebook gains translator app Jibbigo through the deal.

Intel has snapped up Omek, a company specializing in gesture recognition. It's part of Intel's effort to popularize perceptual computing.

Baidu wants to expand its presence in China's mobile Internet market.

STec will be integrated with Western Digital subsidiary HGST

Tech companies' spending billions of dollars on up-and-coming social sites is nothing new, but a few past deals might surprise you.

SoftBank amended its offer to give shareholders more cash, while Sprint said it had ended talks with rival bidder Dish.

Google just acquired a company that makes flying wind turbines that can harness wind power anywhere.

HP said in a regulatory filing with the SEC that it has provided information to U.S. and U.K. authorities.