AFP Apple’s global iPhone launch was marked by excitement and frustration as fans queued to find scarce models of the coveted smartphone. Scenes in Apple stores around the world were reminiscent of days before online ordering became a norm and people camped out for days to be first to get hands on the California company’s iPhone 7 and 7 …

  AFP The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of around one million Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones plagued by incidents of batteries bursting into flames. The move by the US safety agency formalizes the recall underway in 10 countries after reports of faulty batteries that caused some handsets to explode during charging. Samsung meanwhile announced replacements for …

  Bloomberg Tech company Curalate is jumping on the vertical video trend, made popular by Snapchat and Instagram, with a new product. The company has introduced its new ad product Tilt, designed to promote vertical videos, reports the Wall Street Journal. Curalate’s first Tilt partner will be clothing store Urban Outfitters, which has developed a new mobile site called UOTV …