Sprint Nextel Corp. shares rose ahead of regular trading Monday after Credit Suisse upgraded the wireless carrier, predicting the company will stop losing net subscribers in the last few months of the year.

By Leah Schnurr

Wal-Mart Stores is offering a $100 gift card along with the purchase of a BlackBerry phone for one week, in its ongoing bid to attract more holiday shoppers.

Sprint Nextel is starting the process of eliminating up to 2,500 jobs or 6 percent of its workforce this quarter as part of an effort to shave at least $350 million off its annual expenses.

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.

Productivity surged in the third quarter at the fastest pace in six years while labor costs continued to drop sharply.

Verizon Wireless will start selling its answer to the iPhone — the Droid — for $200 next week as the company taps into the growing appetite for smartphones that go far beyond making calls.

Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field of competitors.

Verizon Wireless and Google say they are teaming up to speed development of new mobile devices based on Google's  Android software that will run on Verizon's cell phone network.

From the entire S&P 500, which stocks are analysts expecting to have the biggest pops? With data from ThomsonReuters, we took a look at which stocks have consensus estimates farthest above their stock prices (as of market close on 9/30/09).

Stocks moved into positive territory Monday afternoon as tech, bank and drug stocks gained and volatility waned.

Stocks pared their losses Monday as President Obama's speech on financial reform had little impact on the market.

Stocks declined Monday as investors worried about a trade dispute between the US and China and reflected on the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse.

Investors were in a reflective mood Monday as the anniversary of the collapse of Wall Street titan Lehman Brothers brought back memories of the financial crisis and raised fresh doubts over the recovery.

Sony says it is going to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but fast-growing market.