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This is being seen as the most compelling evidence that the device manufacturer is creating a smartwatch.

According to the latest technology news, Apple is currently actively pursuing the iWatch trademark ownership in Japan, and it has been doing so – says Bloomberg – since the beginning of June 2013.

The effort is to try to obtain protection of the name, which is being listed as a watch or handheld computer.

The California based computer and mobile device giant has filed for the iWatch trademark protection in Japan within a category that also includes both watches and handheld computers. The filing was initially made on June 3, and it was just recently made public by the Japan Patent Office. Attempts to reach an Apple spokesperson in Tokyo, Takashi Takebayashi, for a comment on the subject had not received any response at the time of the writing of this article.

That said, technology news reports are swamping the internet with claims that a touchscreen smartwatch is on its way.

Claims from technology news sites and individuals who have access to this type of information are both reporting that Apple is coming ever closer to the mass production of a touchscreen smartwatch, which followers have been calling the iWatch for some time.

A month and a half ago, it was reported that Apple had been placing a considerable focus on being able to read an OLED screen that was only 1.5 inches. There have also been reports that there have been several assignments of the top engineers in the company assigned to building the best possible version of a smartwatch device.

According to a research report that was reported on by Bloomberg and that had been issued by a Raymond James & Associates Inc. analyst, Raymond James, “We can expect a full TV at Apple in the future, maybe a watch, and who knows what other future devices.” James went on to say that “New connected devices, whether they are TVs, cars or other devices are likely to be first adopted by high income consumers, over whom Apple dominates globally.”

Technology news has been inundated with various types of wearable mobile products but Apple always proves a leader in the headlines.

The online blogging forum is now being purchased by the search engine giant in a recovery effort.

Yahoo! has announced in its latest technology news that it is purchasing the massively popular online blogging forum, Tumblr, for a cool $1.1 billion in order to breathe some life back into itself.

The CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, is aiming to rejuvenate what was once the top search engine.

The company has managed to fall behind and Mayer is now making an aggressive acquisition to help to reverse this trend. The deal was first announced on Monday and is the boldest move that she has made with the company, since she left Google just under a year ago in order to lead the latest comeback effort at Yahoo! This is also the most expensive acquisition that the search engine company has made since the purchase of Overture ten years ago. That purchase made technology news headlines when Yahoo! forked over $1.3 billion in stock and cash.

This technology news will involve a payment all in cash, taking a chunk out of Yahoo’s reserves.

The company has been holding $7.6 billion in windfall, which it brought in when it sold half of its stake in Alibaba Holdings Group, the Chinese internet company. This means that the acquisition of Tumblr will take up approximately a fifth of the $5.4 billion that Yahoo! was storing in its accounts by the close of the first quarter of the year.

At the same time that Yahoo! made its acquisition technology news headlines, it also announced that the CEO of Tumblr, David Karp, would be maintaining his position “per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business.” Karp first started that company six years ago. Both businesses hope that it will soon become a central player in a massive recovery for Yahoo! to become the most influential companies on the internet once more. This is a position that it has not held in 13 years, since it was surpassed by Google – with the help of Mayer, who worked there at the time.