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Tweet Apple’s iPhone 8 topped global phone sales in May, pulling ahead from fifth place in April. Counterpoint, the firm that revealed the findings, put the move down to a strong ad campaign. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Another week, another round of news from Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond. Gaming was heavily emphasized once more, but updates to various other products weren’t absent either. Catch up below. Read more… Neowin

Tweet It’s not all bankruptcies and lost government loans in the world of electric cars. Beneath the headlines about hard times for the companies, there’s a steady trickle of customers buying electric cars, charging stations being built, and at least one electric car company eking out a profit for the first time. The following charts point to some bright spots for electric cars in 2013. Electric car sales are steadily increasing….

Tweet This article originally appeared on GigaOM Pro, GigaOM’s premium subscription research service. The Solar Energies Industries Association (SEIA) recently released final solar installation figures for 2012. From all the bad news surrounding bankruptcies among solar manufacturers and tariffs with China, one might have expected the worst. But the figures were, in fact, quite solid and suggestive of a sustainable trend of growth, both in residential and utility solar PV….

Tweet VMware has transformed the enterprise computing model more than any other company in the past decade. By allowing companies to add multiple virtual servers onto a single physical server, the company kicked off the first building block behind the adoption of private and public cloud architectures — the abstraction of applications and operating systems from specific dedicated hardware. Now VMware is turning its disruption model toward storage. With the…