Wall Street Journal

China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with state media saying officials had shut what they called the country's...

This is supposed to be an era of openness and full-on transparency, powered by the Internet. Disclosure is a virtue, made simple through technology. The old, top-down control over communications is over, a relic of predigital life. All true—except when it comes to politics.

Is Apple's new e-book store a model for the television industry?

Japan's Financial Service Agency is examining whether KDDI Corp.'s planned $4 billion purchase of a major stake in Jupiter Telecommunications Co. from Liberty Global Inc. violates share transaction law, according...

A small start-up is trying to do what many in Hollywood and Silicon Valley have so far been unable to do: take Internet video from its YouTube origins to a full-fledged television service with dozens of channels.

Italy's government is forging ahead with plans to extend TV-broadcasting regulations to Web sites that host videos, marking one of the most sweeping attempts by a Western government to tighten control over the use of video on the Internet.

Cellular provider Leap Wireless has hired advisers and formed a special board committee to look into selling the company or merging with rivals. Leap, which sells its service under the Cricket brand.

Facing a deluge of Web and video traffic that is pushing the limits of their networks, big wireless carriers are resorting to software shortcuts and other tricks to streamline data traffic until they install more cellular towers and roll out next-generation networks.

The Chinese government won't limit the use of Google Inc.'s Android operating system for mobile devices by Chinese telecommunications operators.

Each American should get a refundable federal tax credit of $50 that they can use to make contributions to federal candidates during presidential years, and a suitably smaller sum during off-year federal elections.