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Shares of Amazon.com, the world’s biggest e-retailer, plunged 12 percent in pre-market trading, wiping out $9 billion in value, after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results.

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Wednesday are: Automatic Data Processing, Boeing, Sprint Nextel, Amazon.com, Ford Motor, Lockheed Martin, FMC Technologies, Akamai Technologies, CA, ConocoPhillips, Exelon Corp and General Dynamics Corp.

Amazon.com Inc shocked investors with a far weaker-than-expected outlook for the crucial holiday season quarter as it spent heavily on its new Kindle Fire tablet computer.

Amazon.com Inc shocked investors with a far weaker-than-expected outlook for the crucial holiday season quarter as it spent heavily on its new Kindle Fire tablet computer.

As Groupon pitches its initial public offering plans to investors, analysts continue to give tepid views on the stock's prospects.

Tech pundits claim the Kindle Fire could start a video revolution and might be this holiday season's hottest selling gadget. We take a look at the two most popular tablets, Apple's iPad 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and compare their features and specs with the highly anticipated Amazon Kindle Fire.

Amazon.com Inc shares slumped after reporting weaker-than-expected results as it spent heavily on a new tablet computer and other long-term projects.

Amazon.com Inc reported a 73 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday after spending heavily on its new tablet computer and other long-term projects.

Shares of entertainment provider Netflix plunged 35 percent even before the market opened Tuesday after the company reported 810,000 subscribers had fled and said it expects to record a loss in 2012.

Netflix announced third-quarter Monday, and the company expects to take a big hit from its price hike, and flip-flopping on Qwikster.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has spelt ghoulish Halloween spending this year in its’ 2011 Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey. Overall, 2011 will see Americans spend about $6.86 billion on Halloween, according to the survey. The latest survey therefore could spell kudos for the food Industry and the retail sector in their ingenuity in marketing “Halloween” since its official inception in the 1920s. 40 years on, retail shelves scramble for volumes to spook us even before th...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is set for a Nov. 8 release.

The Peruvian government has released a rare video and pictures showing a few never-before-contacted tribal people along the banks of Manu River at Manu National Park in Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Amazon is giving away 10 prize packages that include a brand new Kindle Fire and a free $250 Amazon.com Gift Card to 10 randomly selected people who enter a sweepstakes.

The Kindle Fire tablet may be the hottest selling gadget this holiday, pressuring Amazon.com Inc's profit margins but giving the world's largest Internet retailer potentially millions of new high-spending customers.

Now that Apple has launched its iPhone 4S to record sales, the focus is shifting toward the company's next release -- the iPad 3.

Amazon.com Inc may enter the Japanese e-book market this year and launch its Kindle readers in the market, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Jane Doe claims that IMDb illegally published her legal age and owes her $1 million for lost work opportunities as a result

Apple Inc. has long denied the possibility of a 7-inch iPad to counter Android-based tablets tormenting the Cupertino-based tech giant with their low prices.

What will Google buy with all that cash? Here are some suggestions.

Google registered a revenue growth by a third to $9.7 billion in the past quarter, as net profits grew more than a quarter to $2.7 billion. The figures were announced at a time when technology industry analysts were more or less predicting that Google Plus was doomed to fail.

Iceland's Katla Volcano is showing signs of an impending eruption, sparking fears of travel chaos much worse than 2010's Eyjafjallajokull eruption.

Reports say the newest addition to the iPhone family, Apple's iPhone 4S, has sold out for pre-order at all three U.S. carriers -- Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.

Is there revenue fire in that new Kindle tablet? Amazon.com's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199, has created a buzz, due its potential to grab market share from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. With the latest kindle send Amazon’s stock vectoring higher?

The Google Inc.'s senior engineer Steve Yegge, who accidentally posted a critical comment about Google+ and calling it a complete failure, said the post was a long opinionated rant and it was intended to be an internal post but not external.

Steve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company's understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a complete failure. Here are five reasons we agree.

The Apple rumor mill has started buzzing again, but this time talks are that the iPhone maker is looking to bring some stiff competition to Amazon Kindle Fire with a low-cost device allegedly to be called iPad mini.

In the face of the upcoming competition that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will spur, Apple could be prepared to launch a drastically cheaper iPad, the iPad mini, in early 2012.

The Apple iPad has easily been the global king of tablets, controlling some three-fourths of the global market. But that's likely to change next month, as Amazon launches its first tablet -- the Kindle Fire.