Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. says it will pay about $300 million for a 51 percent stake in the U.S. maker of Dr. Dre headphones.

A Chinese bullet train manufacturer recalled 54 trains Friday in a new embarrassment for a problem-plagued prestige project following a July crash that killed 40 people.
Online streaming site Hulu.com plans to launch a subscription video service in Japan this year.
Cisco Systems Inc. provided a small measure of comfort to the battered stock market late Wednesday with quarterly results that underscored the technology bellwether's resolve to improve its financial performance.

It doesn't take a visit to the Genius Bar to figure out how Apple became the most valuable company in America.

If you're anything like me, your cellphone and its built-in camera is always on you, while your digital camera gathers dust at home.
Wall Street's recent gloom is laying waste to the hopes of companies planning to raise money from investors.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will not bring charges against a tech blogger who bought an Apple iPhone prototype after it was found at a bar in March 2010 in a case that ignited an unusual First Amendment debate.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday revealed new video and book-reading services that are designed for the iPad but bypass Apple Inc.'s fees on content sales.

On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn't hear orders from their superiors. And none of the agencies responding to the nation's deadliest terrorist attack could communicate with one another.

Venture capitalists from Silicon Valley to New York all have the same question about Indonesia's come-from-nowhere tech frenzy: Are the young entrepreneurs that have piqued their interest smart bets or just surfing a hype that will soon burn out.

The U.S., France and a human rights group have strongly criticized the conviction of a French-Vietnamese math professor who was sentenced to three years in a Vietnamese prison for belonging to a banned pro-democracy group and publishing an anti-Communist blog.
A British journalist's inside take on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being published in the U.S. as an e-book "single."
The Vudu video-streaming service is coming to the iPad, but not as an app.
Apple briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil on Tuesday as the nation's most valuable company.

