Google is deep into an effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a move that could connect a billion or more new people to the Internet.

Lenovo wants to start selling smartphones in the U.S. within a year, as the Chinese company tries to repeat the success of its personal-computer business.

Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions, according to U.S. officials.

Yahoo submitted a bid to acquire Hulu, as the Internet company tries to add more high-quality online video that can appeal to advertisers.

Recent upgrades to a line of popular cycling computers help bikers plot—and share—a perfect course.

Syria's telecommunications providers continue to use technology by Blue Coat Systems to monitor Internet usage, according to Telecomix, a hacker-activist group that has tracked the previous use of the technology.

The Federal Trade Commission has begun to examine complaints by rivals of Google Inc. that the Internet giant abused its power in the market for selling online-graphical and video ads.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim says protests by an activist group in the U.S. have the trappings of an orchestrated campaign against him and his mobile phone companies and is asking California to investigate the group.

The Valley: When Yahoo CEO Mayer said the Internet giant would spend $1.1 billion to acquire Tumblr, she promised not to "screw it up." Maybe she should have emphasized what the startup could do for Yahoo.

Pandora Media's fiscal first-quarter loss widened as the Internet-radio provider's rising expenses continued to outpace revenue.

AT&T has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that could bring in more than a half-billion dollars in annual revenue to the telecom giant.

In a potential major setback for Apple, a federal judge who will preside over a coming antitrust trial that will determine whether it engaged in a conspiracy to raise prices for e-books said the government is likely able to prove its case against the computer maker.

Google increasingly appears to be following Amazon's lead in such services as a new e-commerce site, cloud computing and services for online shoppers.

Dish Network took one step closer to arranging $9 billion in committed financing for its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel.

Promising quarterly results sent H-P's shares up more than 17% on Thursday, but checking off the next agenda items are likely to prove even tougher for H-P.

SoftBank is readying a plan to allow the U.S. government an unusual level of influence over the operations of Sprint, a concession to ease security concerns raised by the proposed cross-border takeover.

Microsoft unveiled a reinvented Xbox game console that demonstrated the software giant's most aggressive play yet for control of consumers' living rooms.

PokerStars, the largest online poker company in the world, is playing a difficult hand: Just two years after being shut down in the U.S. it wants to return to the table.

Some of the biggest U.S. companies, including Google and FedEx, have quietly removed hundreds of offshore subsidiaries from their publicly disclosed financial filings over the past several years.

Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group's fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 90% from a year earlier, setting it apart from an industry that is struggling with weak demand.