Brad Stone

Amazon has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books.

Apple and Google are engaged in a gritty battle royale over the future and shape of mobile computing and cellphones, with implications that are reverberating across the digital landscape. In...

Wary of the Internet's tendency to relentlessly drive down prices, major brands and manufacturers -- and now, book publishers -- are striking back, deploying a variety of tactics and tools to control how their products are presented and priced online.

After a weekend of brinksmanship, Amazon on Sunday surrendered to a publisher and agreed to raise prices on some electronic books.

It's a formidable high-tech face-off: Amazon versus Apple for the hearts and minds of book publishers, authors and readers.

The Great Firewall of China is hardly impregnable.

If Google pulls out of China because of frustration with government restrictions, it will not be the first time an American Internet giant has retreated from the country.

Facebook scam artists have closed out 2009 by snagging a prominent victim: Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, Hollywood studios and consumer electronics makers plan to lay out some steps they are taking to simplify the digital future — and perhaps stem the worrying decline in home entertainment sales.

Mobile phones are becoming ever more like personal computers. That means they are also becoming more vulnerable to traditional computer menaces like hackers and viruses.