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Thousands of Chinese workers protesting over compensation and job security at a Sanyo Electric Co Ltd plant clashed with police in southern Shenzhen, media said on Monday, the latest outbreak of labor unrest in China's manufacturing hub.

Zappos, the online shoe and apparel retailer, urged its customers to change the password to their accounts, amid fears a cyber attack on the company's servers may have compromised names, e-mail and billing addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of the credit cards of their 24 million customers.

Microsoft's Xbox 720 and Sony's PlayStation 4 are the two gaming consoles that have been heavily discussed on the Internet over the last few months.

We've spent over 12 years building our reputation, brand, and trust with our customers, said Hsieh in an apologetic note. It's painful to see us take so many steps back due to a single incident. I supposed the one saving grace is that the secure database that stores our customers' critical credit card and other payment data was not affected or accessed, the CEO added.

Toy specialist “Re:creation” will be showing off its Halo 4 line-up of die-cast vehicles and characters.

Microsoft Corp is starting the new year much as it did the one just ended - grappling with weak computer sales tearing a hole in its core Windows business, while it gropes its way slowly into the faster-growing mobile phone and tablet markets.

Toshiba is set to propose an equity tie-up with scandal-hit camera and medical equipment maker Olympus Corp , an industry newspaper said on Monday.

The sudden departures of two energy industry chief executives this week should serve notice to their counterparts that corporate boards and the shareholders they represent are no longer willing to tolerate weak management.

Now that 153,000 people have exhausted themselves at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, an American visitor can't help thinking that the future of electronics is in Asia, not California's Silicon Valley or Texas.

Top 10 anticipated games of 2012.

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp said it bought private movie studio Summit Entertainment, producer of the blockbuster Twilight vampire series, for $412.5 million in cash and stock.

JPMorgan Chase & Co could lose up to $5 billion from its exposure to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Class CNBC, carried in Italian newspaper Milano Finanza on Saturday.

It appears to be only a matter of time before Facebook hits the 1 billion-user milestone. But it is not all that surprising as global villagers are already getting used to living in the Facebook world.

Motorola refused to mention a specific launch date.

The Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. has purchased private studio Summit Entertainment, producer of the successful Twilight film series, for $412.5 million in cash and stock.

PepsiCo Inc. said company tests of its Tropicana orange juice showed low levels of a potentially dangerous fungicide, but that these levels did not pose a health risk.

The latest report from the iPad rumor mill is from Bloomberg, which cited three people familiar with the product, who said Apple's third-generation iPad will go on sale in March, have a high-definition screen and a faster processor, and be LTE compatible.

Robert Duffy of SOM is leading the design of Cornell's new campus at Roosevelt Island, which aims to be one of the most sustainable in the country.

From the world's first eye-controlled laptop personal computer to a pet-tracking application to a glass-encased ultrathin notebook PC, 2012's Consumer Electronics Show produced more than a few gems to point the way forward in technology.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. could lose as much as $5 billion due to its exposure to sickly Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Class CNBC, which was carried in the Italian newspaper Milano Finanza on Saturday.

“Flashback” will be available on Jan. 17 once the game has been updated with the new patch.

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The Lenovo K800, which was released on Tuesday at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), will be the first smartphone powered by the Intel Atom Medfield chip. The phone is expected to hit the Chinese market in the second quarter of 2012.

Federal investigators in the U.S. are reportedly launching a probe to inquire into allegations that American luxury lingerie brand Victoria's Secret uses child labor in Africa to harvest cotton for its products.

Newt Gingrich might have denounced the errors in a Super PAC (political action committee) advertisement on Mitt Romney and asked them to withdraw it, but the trailer and the documentary titled King of Bain - When Mitt Romney Came to Town is still going viral on the Internet. The ad in the form of a 28-minute documentary was released by Winning our Future, a Super PAC that supports Gingrich.

A roundup of the major unveilings that happened this year.

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by a trade group representing major U.S. airlines to block a $3.4 billion loan-guarantee package to help Air India buy dozens of planes from the Boeing Co.

A group of Indian hackers has offered support to an American man who filed a lawsuit against the Symantec Corp. by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software program at the heart of the legal dispute.

Adobe has announced a special upgrade for current owners of to Creative Suite 3 and to Creative Suite 4, which would allow users to upgrade to Creative Suite 6 for photo-editing, illustration, and design applications upon its release.