Music subscription service Mog has been acquired by Beats Electronics. Terms of the deal, which first made the news back in March, were not disclosed. Mog founder and CEO David Hyman will stay on as CEO and report to Beats president and COO Luke Wood. Beats Electronics was founded in 2008 by ... Read more...

Twitter has just announced a new partnership with three music data services, The Echo Nest, Gracenote, and Rovi are, to help scale the distribution of Twitter account data for musicians for integration in consumer-facing apps. Via the pilot program, Twitter developers can now work with partners to... Read more...

Your Facebook phone may be the equivalent of having a KGB agent tailing you. Mark Zuckerberg will be in your pocket. You might as well wear one of those ankle bracelets for tracking. The Facebook phone is in play—again—and it appears we have another 12 to 18 months to go before mobile a... Read more...

Whoa. Apple just won a big court victory against HTC that could force HTC to stop selling its Android phones in the United States. The United States International Trade Commission ruled that HTC was infringing on an Apple patent that effects HTC Android devices running Android 1.6 to 2.2. The dev... Read more...
Nokia is suing Apple over what it claims are infringing patents in the iPad and iPad 3G. This is just the latest in a series of escalating lawsuits between the two companies regarding their respective mobile and consumer electronic devices. This lawsuit -- which unlike the others was filed i... Read more...

Apple is to sue mobile phone manufacturer HTC in a suit that claims the Taiwanese company has infringed 20 of the iPhone-maker’s patents. HTC, which makes a range of handsets including Google’s flagship Nexus One, has declined to comment on the action until it has investigated the det... Read more...