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A new report from the FTC says certain electronics manufacturers aren't doing as good a job preventing kids from buying R-rated content.

Price cuts from multiple vendors may signal that a successor to the Wii is around the corner.

The Supreme Court hears the Microsoft v. i4i patent case today, and a ruling for Microsoft could alter decades of patent law.

Investors retreated from stocks, oil and other risky assets as a worsening nuclear situation in Japan and a lackluster start to the U.S.'s corporate earnings season cast doubt over the global economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 117.53 points, or 0.95%, to 12263.58, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 10.30 points, or 0.78%, at 1314.16, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 26.72 points, or 0.96%, to 2744.79.

Asian shares fell Tuesday on selling prompted by Japan declaring its nuclear crisis a match for the Chernobyl disaster in severity and after the International Monetary Fund said global economic growth should slow this year as new risks emerge.

Creating shortage looks like a successful marketing strategy for Apple. Best Buy turned away iPad 2 customers because of inventory supply shortage.

Gold is the world's most stable asset and the best gauge of inflation. The National Inflation Association (NIA) says this brand new breakout in the price of gold leads us to believe that the Federal Reserve is getting ready to unleash QE3 at the end of June.

U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out small gains Monday in the lightest trading volume all year, but other major indexes finished flat as the technology sector sagged.

The move would leverage Google's advertising business, giving the company greater insight into how users view targeting advertising.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: NYSE Euronext, Salesforce.Com, Freeport-McMoRan, Netflix, Bristol Myers Squibb, Caterpillar, Boeing, Marriott International, Peabody Energy and Wal-Mart Stores.

Barclays Capital said Apple Inc.'s iPad 2, which began shipping in the U.S. on March 11, remains sold out across retailers with limited sporadic availability at Apple stores themselves and 4-5 week wait times via Apple.com.

U.S. stocks staged an afternoon rally Wednesday, led by materials companies, though investors continued to eye several overseas trouble spots warily.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 89 points, or 0.7%, to 12108 in late afternoon trade, led by Alcoa, which rose 3.3%. The gains were kept in check by a 1.5% decline for Bank of America, which said the Federal Reserve didn't allow it to boost its dividend. Wal-Mart Stores also was weak, falling 0.8%, as was DuPont, down 0.4%.

In a closely-watched patent case before the Supreme Court, i4i has fired a brief at Microsoft saying that the latter wants to overturn a century of precedent in patent law.

The Notion Ink’s Adam tablet, the sleeping giant facing many issues relating to supply is still an iPad 2 killer waiting in the corner.

Barclays Capital said its sales estimates for iPad 2 are likely conservative for Apple Inc.'s March quarter because of early shipment date. The brokerage still expects that competitors will find it tougher to compete with Apple in tablets than in phones given the integration of iTunes and Apple’s expertise in design and battery life.

There are no good outcomes, only bad, really bad, and catastrophic. Take your pick. Could gas prices drop below $3.00 per gallon if the world sinks back into recession? Yes. But it would only be momentary. The easy to access supply is dwindling. The medium and long term direction of gas at the pump is up. There is nothing that can be done in the next five years to prevent significantly higher oil prices.

More and more people continue to discover the art of buying back thanks to the emergence of the iPad 2, and wanting to upgrade from the original.

Best Buy and Wal-mart both put the iPad 2 on their retail sites.

A retail store, dubbed the 'Wal Mart of weed' has thrown open its doors in Sacramento with how-to experts and merchandise to help medical marijuana patients grow pot.

Toys R Us Inc is looking to raise around $800 million in an initial public offering in April, though a final decision has not been reached, the New York Post said on Saturday.

Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Thunderbolt 4G are expected to rule the year 2011

U.S. stocks plunged and oil prices surged on growing fears that Libya may descend into a civil war after Colonel Moammar Gaddafi warned that he would never give up his power and would rather die a “martyr.” The concerns about Libya vastly overshadowed some surprisingly good consumer confidence data in the U.S.

U.S. stocks plunged and oil prices surged on growing fears that Libya may descend into a civil war after Colonel Moammar Gaddafi warned that he would never give up his power and would rather die a “martyr.” The concerns about Libya vastly overshadowed some surprisingly good consumer confidence data in the U.S.

Shares of Wal-Mart Stores fell nearly 4 percent in early trade after the world’s largest retailer a seventh straight quarterly decline in U.S. comparable-store sales, saying some of the pricing and merchandising issues ran deeper than it initially expected.

World’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc reported a 1.8 percent fall in U.S. comparable-store sales for the fourth quarter even as it posted a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit.

US stocks declined in early trade on Tuesday as political unrest in the Middle East weighed on the sentiment.

China has fined retail giants Carrefour SA and Wal-Mart Stores Inc a combined 9.5 million yuan ($1.5 million) for manipulating product prices in some of their stores, the country's top economic planner said on Tuesday.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Chesapeake Energy, Home Depot, V.F. Corp, Hess Corp, Juniper Networks, Dean Foods, Carnival Corp, Yahoo, Jds Uniphase and Wal-Mart Stores.

Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to lower opening on Tuesday, following declines in European and Asian stock markets as continued political unrest in the Middle East weighed on the sentiment.