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News Corp. is joining a consortium of magazine companies that are working on creating a digital store to sell their titles on electronic readers, mobile devices and other digital devices.

An Italian jury has convicted American college student Amanda Knox of murdering her British roommate and sentenced her to 26 years in prison while her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.

Dell plans to reorganize its business groups to make a bigger push into mobile devices.

Dell plans to reorganize its business groups to make a bigger push into mobile devices.

Apple is in talks to buy online music company Lala Media, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, possibly signaling an expansion of the computer giant's music strategy.

Federal regulators seized AmTrust Bank, a battered Cleveland thrift kept alive this year after local politicians pleaded with the government for a second chance.

HSBC Bank says a bug in its imaging software inadvertently exposed sensitive data about some of its customers going through bankruptcy proceedings.

Inside Facebook reports that MySpace will be implementing Facebook Connect on its site in early 2010, making it one of the biggest Connect installations to date.

Intel is delaying the commercial release of its Larrabee graphics processor, which had been due out next year, and is not providing a new launch date.

The Treasury Department said it expects to earn $146.5 million from its auction of 12.7 million Capital One Financial stock warrants.

Ecuador asked a U.S. court to prevent Chevron from forcing international arbitration of claims over alleged environmental damages in the country's Amazon region.

Japan ended its plan to privatize its huge postal-services agency, a move away from free-market policies and toward a European-style social-welfare model.

The Hearst publishing company unveiled its long-awaited e-reader plan on Friday, describing an "e-reading service platform" coming next year that will distribute content from multiple publishers to a variety of wireless mobile devices.

Sure, Apple could offer some kind of "cloud" or streaming service but as the company mulls an acquisition of a streaming-music service, its goals may be less ambitious.

The jobless rate dropped to 10% in November, encouraging hopes that unemployment has peaked.

The FCC is looking into why Verizon Wireless is now charging a $350 fee to some subscribers who want to break their cellphone contracts early, and sent the company a letter Friday asking for information about the new fee.

You wouldn't necessarily expect it, but Avast and Google Chrome might be the next peanut butter-and-jelly combo in the software world.

Previously, Google would only alter search results based on search history for those signed into Google accounts. Now, it plans to do that for everyone.

GM unveiled a string of management changes, including a new role for Vice Chairman Bob Lutz and the promotion of some of the company's younger managers.