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The world of erotic e-books is getting more intriguing by the minute. Recent reports have explored the increasing popularity of erotic/romance novels. Women who were previously ashamed to lose themselves in smutty novels, can now do so free of judgement.

The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has brought new attention to the lure of erotic/romantic fiction. According to a new report by CNBC, Romance is the best-selling fiction genre.

The United States Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a handful of major book publishers on Wednesday, alleging that the companies colluded to raise the price of e-books back in 2010. Amazon is the clear winner here, but it won't win out in the long-run.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Apple and publishers worked to eliminate competition. Three publishers settled the case.

Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc's patent trove.

Sony has announced it will be adding Amazon streaming video to the PlayStation Network. The move indicates a strong shift toward video game console-makers creating all-encompassing media devices.

The U.S. oil giant is engaged in a battle with Ecuadoran courts over $18 billion in environmental damages. While that saga continues, a judge in New York said Chevron doesn't have to pay a $21.8 million fine.

Amazon.com Inc is trying to grab some of the billions of advertising dollars spent each year by consumer packaged goods companies including Kimberly-Clark Corp, as the world's largest Internet retailer seeks new sources of revenue growth.

Amazon's app store, available on the Kindle Fire, is trumping Google Play in terms of revenue. With that the case, why does Apple still run the top store?

The competition among major vendors in the tablet market has heated up with the launch of Apple's new iPad.

Best Buy has fallen on hard times in a sluggish economy, suffering a dismal drop in sales and an overall $1.2 billion loss over the last fiscal year. The electronics giant announced Thursday that it will close 50 stores and cut 400 jobs at its Richfield, Minn., corporate headquarters, hoping to save $800 million over the next three years in order to stay afloat.

Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), the second largest U.S. oil company, lost its fourth attempt to avoid paying $18 billion in environmental fines for polluting tracts of the Amazon.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, located the engines from the Apollo 11 rocket that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969 14,000 feet underwater.

Two popular tablets are getting new software updates during the final days of March, and the Amazon Kindle Fire 6.5 and Motorola Xoom both have some new features to show for it. While both tablets have their limitations, they are both in a good price range, and the new update could be just what nudges them over the line for some buyers.

Basho, a four-year-old startup, is challenging giants like Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and EMC (NYSE: EMC) in the database market as well as new products for the Cloud, or Internet-based computing.

Maybe Lord Voldemort put a spell on Amazon.Com Inc.

It's reported that Amazon will release three new Kindle Fire models, each with a different resolution: a low-end 7-inch model (1204x600 resolution), a mid-tier 7-inch model (1280x800 resolution) and a high-end 8.9-inch (1920x1200 resolution).

While the new iPad remains the market leader in the media tablet segment, there is one tablet that definitely steals the spotlight -- Amazon's Kindle Fire. Rumor has it that Amazon wants a larger piece of the tablet market, and it may launch three new tablets in 2012 in an attempt to accomplish its aim.

Good news for those who are fans of the Amazon Kindle Fire, the most successful Android tablet that is not really an Android tablet since it is not recognized by Google. Rumors are popping up regarding a brand spanking new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet device, that is expect to launch in 2012. Let's just say the tablet wars just got a little more interesting.

An expedition to the Amazon by a group of Yale researchers has led to the discovery of a fungus that can utilize and break down polyurethane, one of the most common, and pollutant, industrial plastics in use by man. They hope the plastic-eating fungus can also eat away at the world's waste problems.

Google debuted its Amazon River Street View tour on Wednesday in honor of World Forest Day 2012.

Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced on Monday it plans to buy robotics company Kiva Systems Inc. for $775 million as part of ongoing expansion efforts.

Amazon.com Inc Monday announced that it has reached an agreement to buy Kiva Systems Inc, an innovator of material handling order fulfillment systems, for $775 million.

Chevron on Thursday continued its attempts at not paying billions in environmental fines for pollution the company says it didn't commit.

Apple has confirmed that the new iPad, the third generation of its category, will launch in the U.S. and nine other countries on Friday, March 16, at 8 a.m. local time. Here are all the information on the device's pricing, availability, trade-in offers and roundup of reviews from mainstream publications.

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) hired a chief financial officer with extensive experience in cable broadcasting, particularly with that industry's spin-offs as well as mergers and acquisitions, the New York-based company said Monday.

George Buck, a slim, towering American who runs Chevron's operations in Brazil, is often flanked by lawyers these days.

Apple unveiled the new iPad yesterday and decided to keep selling the iPad 2, albeit after dropping the $499 price by $100, making it competitive with the $199 Kindle Fire from Amazon.

The U.S.-based oil giant is questioning the judicial conduct of Nicholas Zambano after the Ecuadorean jurist was dismissed for improperly freeing an alleged drug trafficker.