Apple's boss, Tim Cook, turns down a payout worth about $75m (£48m) that he was due from the technology giant's upcoming dividend.

Satellite broadcaster clashes with US TV networks over a set-top box that strips ads out of recorded programmes

Google suffers its first patent defeat since taking over Motorola Mobility in a battle over how Android handles texts.

Researchers from MIT have developed a special coating that will help get that last drop of ketchup out of the bottle - and other technology news stories.

Microsoft has asked Google to remove more than 500,000 links from its search index in the last month, figures show.

Why new cookie rules anger the advertising industry

A grid of 25,000 "invisibility cloaks" shows how to slow light down and spread out its constituent colours in an advance dubbed "trapping a rainbow".

China's Huawei files a complaint against InterDigital, accusing the US firm of abusing its position and charging ''exploitative'' fees for mobile patents.

High-definition (HD) cameras placed in cars are the latest idea to try to bring down the cost of insurance for young drivers.

Scientists are awaiting the announcement of a decision on where the world's biggest and most powerful radio telescope will be built.

Artist and designer Ollie Palmer explains how he has developed technology that he hopes will allow him to stage an "ant ballet".

The UK's privacy regulator signals it will initially take a "soft" approach to sites that breach new cookie rules.

The pioneers shaking up the country's tech industry

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest maker of personal computers, is to cut 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014.

The social network's new photography app appears to replicate many features of Instagram which it is buying for $1bn.

Intel, in partnership with Imperial university and University College, will use London as a lab for testing tech for future cities.

Developers fret over an unresolved issue in the Google-Oracle trial

Goal-line technology will be tested at Wembley when England entertain Belgium in a friendly on 2 June.

Scores of people believed to have run a large-scale operation selling personal data are arrested in Beijing.

A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.