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A summary of some of the secrets that have emerged so far from Wikileaks.

IBM, the No. 2 computer services company, has snapped up technology players in Canada and the UK -- demonstrating an appetite for new technologies but also for tax advantages.

AT&T has apparently figured out the key to lawmaker hearts: U.S. jobs. The telecommunications company has committed to bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States once its proposed merger with T-Mobile USA is approved and finalized. AT&T says the jobs will be in wireless call centers, and will bring back positions that were previously outsourced abroad.

U.S. authorities are investigating whether business software maker Oracle Corp.'s deals in Africa violated federal anti-bribery laws, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Oracle Corp accused Hewlett-Packard Co of fraud for concealing facts during negotiations between the two companies, according to a court filing.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the richest person in the world for the second year in a row, Forbes said on Wednesday.

A new app for the Apple iPad gives users access to more than 6,000 corporate white papers in the business and technology fields.

A new app for the Apple iPad gives users access to more than 6,000 corporate white papers in the business and technology fields.

HP shares gained because they had been beaten down and some saw recovery

How did Verizon keep its network up? By deploying all the tech tools it owns.

HP rebounded a bit on Wall Street Monday as company executives including CEO Leo Apotheker went on a global mission to explain to major investors why the company is drastically changing its mission. Apotheker flew to London to begin selling his new vision of the company and other company leaders, including CFO Cathie Lesjak and Chairman Ray Lane made dozens of calls to answers questions about HP's new and controversial strategy.

Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion is all about owning a slew of patents to defend itself against its rivals -- Microsoft and Apple -- in the legal arena where patent licensing fees can be negotiated through lawsuits and countersuits.

Verizon and two striking unions agreed to talk after a two-week strike. Here's why.

Hewlett-Packard no longer likes the PC business, but investors aren't liking HP at the moment on that news. One day after HP said it is considering shedding its PC unit, which currently comprises 30 percent of company sales, investors shed the company's stock, sending HP shares plunging to near six-year lows.

Two weeks on, why not end the Verizon strike with a federal mediator?

Gold and silver prices rose dramatically early Friday as investors fled crumbling Asian and European stock markets, but later in the session some of those early gains disappeared as investors began buying heavily discounted tech stocks.

Investors started buying beaten-down stocks Friday, especially in the tech sector, to lift the Nasdaq composite index into positive territory and shortly thereafter boosting other major indexes.

Shares of silver mining companies charged out of the gate Friday, posting huge gains as the price of white metal also rose.

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) announced a series of developments Thursday, including the potential spin-off of its personal computer business.

Hewlett-Packard could sell low-margin PCs to focus on high-margin services

Search giant Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility prima facie looks to shut out Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) and Nokia, which are struggling in the smartphone race, but instead the deal could make the companies attractive acquisition targets.

Google's move to buy Motorola Mobility was all about patents and defending the growing success of Android analysts say.

In a significant development for the mobile technology industry, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion, or $40 a share, in cash to defend its Android ecosystem.

Making its biggest deal ever, Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings for a massive $12.5 billion, which analysts see as an attempt to fend off increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals like Apple.

Warren Buffett has touched a national nerve.

After Motorola, could RIM, Sony or Nokia tempt a bidder?

Google Inc said it will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion in cash to bolster the adoption of its Android mobile software.

Warren Buffett has been buying amid this week's sharp declines in the market, and has not yet seen anything that suggests another downturn is emerging, the legendary investor told Fortune magazine.

It seems everything going Apple's way. A day after the consumer technology giant briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the world's largest public company by market capitalization, it won a legal battle against Samsung in Europe.