Texas Instruments is letting loose a wolverine it says will change the way home electronics get power. Named after the fierce, carnivorous inhabitants of northern forests,  the new line of microcontrollers can rummage around their surroundings for sources of energy....

A report on the declining percentage of Facebook users playing games on the social network got some attention recently. The problem is that one of its main conclusions may have been based on a flawed analysis. Last week, IHS Screen...

Amazon.com has grown into the world’s largest online retailer in part by enticing customers with money-saving offers. Now it’s cutting back on one of those discounts, sparking a backlash among parents who say it’s changing the rules in the middle...

Don’t take it personal (or, maybe you should), but more users on social networks are “deleting” their friends on sites like Facebook. It’s part of an overall increase in people actively managing their networks, according to a new report. The...

While a small group of protesters marched outside Apple’s shareholders meeting this morning over labor practices in China, investors inside were mostly saying thank you. And with good reason. Take Rich Bleyle, a retired teacher attending the annual meeting from...

While Google is planning a new “do not track” feature on its browser, that doesn’t mean you’re safe from every advertiser online. Google earlier today said it would join an industry anti-tracking initiative and add a feature to its Chrome...

Five months into the job, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is thinking about grooming her successor — and it’s likely an executive from inside the computer maker. At a Wall Street Journal conference in Menlo Park, California, Whitman said: “I will...

As every developer knows, there’s money to be made in making apps for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. But apps for Android devices are a different story: They often take more time to make, and pay less. Though there are now...

Years of R&D cuts and shifting strategies have left Hewlett-Packard in rough shape. How rough? Today, CEO Meg Whitman gave Wall Street its first sense of how long HP’s problems may take to fix. Whitman, who became CEO in September,...

Author and monologist Mike Daisey spoke today with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about his view on Apple and Foxconn (“they really are two halves of the same company”) and what he thinks about CEO Tim Cook’s response to recent criticism (“Apple...