Apple, Intel and Ericsson are among the technology giants that will vie with Google to buy a trove of patents from the bankrupt Canadian company.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion saw investors abandon the company in droves amid fresh concerns about its future.

In a division of labor that caught some investors by surprise, Ron Johnson, credited with revolutionizing the concept of the retail store while at Apple, won't oversee stores at J.C. Penney when he takes over as chief executive.

Movies distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment were removed from Netflix's on-demand Internet service Friday, a Netflix executive wrote in a blog post, adding that the absence was "temporary."

Satyam Computer Services is looking for an out-of-court settlement with the Aberdeen Group as it tries to clear all legal hurdles on its way to complete recovery from one of India's biggest corporate scandals.

The Justice Department will conduct the antitrust review of Google's approximately $400 million purchase of Internet advertising company Admeld.

With hacking breaches more commonplace, an industry of experts has emerged to help companies formulate breach-response plans—often before an incident occurs.

Despite the surge of ad dollars marketers are pouring online, advertisers aren't cutting back their television ad budgets anytime soon.

Facebook is angling to play a bigger role in shaping the way software gets developed for mobile devices, encouraging developers who write Facebook apps to do so for mobile gadgets using a relatively new standard called HTML5.

Fujitsu forecast a sharp decline in earnings for its fiscal first half, but a modest growth in net profit for the full year, as Japanese corporate clients spend more on information-technology services.

Indian shares slipped 0.6%, falling for the third consecutive session Friday, mirroring weak Asian markets, with losses led by heavyweight Reliance Industries and technology stocks.

Lenovo Group Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing bought about 8% of the company's outstanding shares from its biggest shareholder, Legend Holdings.

The U.K.'s three biggest mobile operators said they plan to create a joint venture to develop mobile payment services following the rising popularity of smartphones.

Sina's CEO defended his company's handling of recent deal by insiders to sell shares and denied the Chinese Internet firm plans to spin off its Weibo messaging business.

Lenders in South Africa are turning to a new method—using phones and humble "bank shops"—to tap a growing middle class.

Alibaba Group announced a major restructuring of its key Taobao unit, splitting the popular Chinese e-commerce platform into three separate companies focused on different market segments.

NPR is trying to persuade its member stations to outsource more of their online operations to the nonprofit news organization.

Research In Motion sliced its earnings outlook and said it would start laying off employees, in grim results that suggest its aging smartphone line and delays in introducing new devices are eroding its business faster than expected.

A federal government advisory board said mobile broadband start-up LightSquared's proposed network could hobble some GPS signals in space, not just equipment on the ground.

A member of the Senate Banking Committee said Citigroup Inc.'s disclosure of a much higher number of credit-card customers affected by a hacking attack triggers new questions about the bank's handling of the breach.