TECHNOLOGY

Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer launched in thousands of stores on Tuesday and mostly stayed there, a grim reminder of Apple's lasting allure for tech-hungry consumers.

Intel Corp forecast quarterly revenues well above Wall Street's estimates, defying fears the world's top chip maker is struggling to find its footing as personal computer sales growth wanes.

Sprint and Clearwire kiss and make up over a wholesale pricing dispute, the latter commits one billion to the former.

A National Semiconductor shareholder doesn't think the company's executives acted in the best interests of shareholders with the Texas Instruments merger.

Canadian e-reading service provider Kobo Inc said on Tuesday it closed a C$50 million ($53 million) investment round aimed at speeding up expansion and new product development.

Samsung aims countersue Apple, which claimed the former company infringed on its iPhone patents.

Johnson & Johnson reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, fueled by higher prescription drug sales and stabilizing performance of its consumer products business that has been plagued by recalls.

Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer launched in almost empty stores on Tuesday, unable to whip up the frenzy that accompanies the debut of anything from rival Apple.

The EU's telecoms chief threatened on Tuesday to impose tougher rules to ensure Internet providers do not discriminate against some content companies such as internet voice call providers like Skype.

Apple will soon carry Square's innovative credit card reader at its 235 stores.

The twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with their business partner Divya Narendra, are appealing a recent court ruling that says they have to abide by a previous settlement reached with Facebook.

Google Maps opens up to self-editors; who can add their own destinations, points of interest, etc.

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after encouraging earnings from healthcare and materials companies and unexpected strength in housing, but weakness in technology and banks tempered gains.

Clearwire Corp and its majority owner Sprint Nextel reached a new wholesale pricing agreement that involves Sprint paying a minimum of $1 billion to Clearwire this year and next year.

Research In Motion's PlayBook went on sale in the United States and Canada on Tuesday in a launch the company hopes will win customers away from Apple's dominant iPad tablet computer.

U.S.-based Seagate Technology's $1.4 billion acquisition of Samsung Electronics Co's loss-making hard disk drive business pits it head-to-head with Western Digital Corp in an industry that has been dogged by price wars.

Seagate Technology is to buy Samsung Electronics Co's loss-making hard disk drive business for $1.4 billion as it looks to combat rival Western Digital Corp and arrest price wars that have damaged the industry.

Toyota Motor Co <7203.T> may have to change its U.S. sales targets because of production slowdowns in Japan and North America, the U.S. sales chief of the world's largest automaker said on Tuesday.

AT&T is blocking PlayBook subscribers from downloading one of the PlayBook's key applications, BlackBerry Bridge, according to subscribers.

Cellphone maker Sony Ericsson is suffering component shortages following the Japanese earthquake and has roped in its bigger parents to give it more muscle in the fight for supplies with bigger rivals.

The EU will investigate whether telecoms operators are providing fair internet access and might introduce stricter rules to protect consumers, EU Telecoms Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Tuesday.

According to a blog post from a Sony Store employee, Sony is discontinuing shipments of the PSP Go, released in 2009.

Booming smartphone demand and cost cuts kept cellphone venture Sony Ericsson in the black in the first quarter as it battled supply disruptions from Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Taiwan's Acer Inc named insider Jim Wong as its new corporate president after the abrupt departure of its previous chief executive last month, giving him special responsibility for developing mobile devices to power future growth.

Research In Motion's PlayBook, the long-awaited response to Apple's iPad, went on sale in the United States and Canada on Tuesday in a launch RIM desperately hopes will win the hearts and minds of consumers.

SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL - Apple Inc sued Samsung Electronics claiming the South Korean firm's Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets slavishly copies the iPhone and iPad, according to court papers, a move analysts say is aimed at keeping its close rivals at bay.

The global tablet computer market, born last year with Apple's iPad, will grow to a $49-billion business by 2015, research firm Strategy Analytics said.

Samsung Electronics Co is selling its hard-disk-drive business to Seagate Technology for $1.4 billion in cash and stock as it seeks to exit from the cut-rate industry and focus on its bread-and-butter memory-chip business.

Apple has raised a legal hatchet against its long-term supplier Samsung Electronics Co. charging it of replicating its iPad, iPhone and iPod designs in Galaxy series of Android devices.