While there are now over 100,000 apps in the Apple App store, the vast majority of them were created on a shoestring budget. With customers flocking toward lower-priced program, it just doesn’t make business sense to spend big development dollars—especially on games, the App store’s most crowded category.

Want to know your entire DNA sequence? A California company has done it for as little as $1,700.

Atheros Communications Inc's Ali Hariri is the latest Silicon Valley executive to be charged in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in U.S. history.

Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it would sell an HTC Corp <2498.TW> phone based on Google Inc's <GOOG.O> Android system for $99.99, potentially putting pressure on smaller carrier Sprint Nextel Corp <S.N>.

With Google's free navigation on the Motorola Droid, available Friday, cell phones are expanding at the expense of navigation devices such as Garmin and TomTom.

A federal judge refused to lower the $100 million bail for Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire hedge fund manager accused of heading an insider-trading ring.

If you're planning on committing a crime, cheating on your spouse or lying to your employer about where you’ve been, it may be a good idea to leave your cell phone at home.

The global smart phone market set a record for shipments in the third quarter as it continues to weather the economic turmoil, research firm IDC said Thursday.

Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it would sell an HTC Corp phone based on Google Android system for $99.99, potentially putting pressure on smaller carrier Sprint Nextel.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company's search engine partnership with Yahoo would not be limited to the U.S. but would be introduced around the world, once it gets regulatory approval.

By Alexei Oreskovic

Media conglomerate News Corp. posted a surprise increase in quarterly profit Wednesday, but Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said the company might not meet its goal of charging fees for online versions of its newspapers by next summer.

Shares of smart phone maker Palm Inc. fell Wednesday as fears of rising competition picked up.

Investigators expect more people to be charged in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading case, and they said they have cooperating witnesses to strengthen their case against the fund's billionaire founder, Raj Rajaratnam.

Vonage Holdings Inc. posted a much wider loss for the third quarter on Wednesday, ironically attributing the gap to its stock rally late in the period. The Internet phone service provider said adjusted results produced its second consecutive quarterly profit, but the stock nevertheless dropped sharply in morning trading.