Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Obama sat down for dinner with Apple's Steve Jobs, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other corporate chieftains.
Online deals website Groupon appears to be making preparations to launch operations in China, a move that could shake up the market for group buying.
Chinese telecom-gear maker Huawei Technologies rescinded its attempt to win U.S. approval for a deal in which it would buy assets and technology from 3Leaf Systems.
In an interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, social media expert Clay Shirky discusses the effect of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and what it could mean for the Middle East at large.
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Intel unveiled plans to build a $5 billion chip factory in Arizona and hire 4,000 additional workers, during a visit by President Obama.
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Finnish mobile-phone charger maker Salcomp warned that its outlook for 2011 is "more uncertain than usual" as a result of Nokia's change in strategy, making it the second Finnish supplier to issue a warning.
U.S. antitrust enforcers have begun looking at the terms Apple set this week for media companies who want to sell their content on the iPad and other devices.
The videogame Homefront imagines a future in which North Korean forces have invaded the U.S. The story was penned by John Milius, the screenwriter behind "Apocalypse Now." Is the premise too controversial for a videogame meant to entertain?
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A small band of venture-capital firms that have stakes in consumer Web companies are raising billions of dollars, as the rest of the industry struggles.
Size over speed appears to be Apple's new strategy for tackling the China market.
Microsoft knew it had far more at stake than Google as the two rivals competed to secure a tie-up with Nokia. So Steve Ballmer aggressively courted the cellphone giant in a series of globe-spanning meetings.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Leo Apotheker discusses his vision for Hewlett-Packard, why it was important to overhaul the board, and his first impressions of living in California.
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Zynga is close to raising as much as $500 million from a group of investors in a round of financing that could value the maker of CityVille, FarmVille and other popular Facebook games as high as $10 billion.
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The growth of tablets and smartphones with bigger screens will help to spur the nascent mobile-advertising industry, but hurdles remain before it contributes more than a trickle to the flood of global ad dollars.
Most Americans have access to basic Internet service, but significant gaps remain for those who want faster speeds, according to a new federal map of the nation's broadband services.
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Barcelona conference highlights growing use of devices to access Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Obama and Otellini in Oregon--all those "Os" seemed to spell agreement on a broad range of tech-policy issues when the president toured Intel's facility west of Portland on Friday. But there was one small sign of discord, and trade with South Korea was the topic.
Google's Android was the darling of Mobile World Congress show. But some handset makers have expressed concern about Google's growing power.
Not long after the White House released an official photograph from President Obama's dinner Thursday with Silicon Valley's biggest names--and egos--did Internet watchers start trying to identify the guests of honor.
Senators Joe Lieberman (I, Conn.), Susan Collins (R, Maine) and Tom Calpers (D, Del.) introduced the "Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2011" on Thursday.
Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is not one of the liberal tech leaders who helped President Barack Obama get elected. But he is nevertheless heeding the administration's call.
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Mubarak had no idea how to counter the power of social media. China, Russia and Iran know better.
Walt Mossberg reviews the Atrix 4G, an Android smartphone that acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
Katherine Boehret looks at charging pads, devices that make it easy to charge household mobile devices with just a single cord.
Netflix is living a kind of Brobdingnagian existence. But its giant $13 billion valuation is as realistic as the mythical land Gulliver encounters on his travels.
As worshippers welcomed the Year of the Rabbit, Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin temple ushered in an era of its own: high-tech Taoism, including a $13 million electronic prayer hall.
From a handy way to store a range of passwords to an application that will help keep track of ongoing alcohol consumption, The Wall Street Journal Europe presents 10 apps you can't live without.
"Augmented reality" is the latest buzz technology to grip the digital world. The commercial opportunities for companies that embrace it are vast, even if not immediately obvious.
It's been likened to the Industrial Revolution in terms of its potential to change lives. But just what is cloud computing and how can companies turn it to their advantage?
IPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. 13th in a series.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, who recently struck a deal to build a corporate campus in San Francisco, talks about why he decided against moving his company to Silicon Valley.
San Francisco is installing parking meters that will be able to tell drivers where they can find an available parking spot, with the eventual goal of reducing traffic congestion.
Among the winners: computer screens that can bend, adjustable eyeglasses, a low-cost genetic test, an online marketplace for receivables and a new way to battle malware.
The Gold award in The Wall Street Journal's 2010 Technology Innovation Awards goes to Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute for technology that brings the commercial development of high-quality flexible displays closer to reality.
From computing systems to wireless, the most innovative technologies in 17 categories, as chosen by the judges.
An update on past winners of the Journal's Innovation Awards.
The social media wave is being followed by a big data tsunami. Analysts say we may be underestimating the huge amounts of machine-driven data flooding the networks.
Start-ups developing "thin-film" solar material used to be all the rage. But their prospects have dwindled since the recession, and this may be a make-or-break year for many of these start-ups.
A small, three-year-old seed fund is already proving to be enormously successful, returnig more than five times the capital raised in a debut fund. Now, Tandem Entrepreneurs hopes to raise a far larger fund it's touting as a fresh approach to venture capital.