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The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into whether AT&T and Verizon and a standards-setting group worked together to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers

A slump in big technology stocks helped pull U.S. indexes lower on Wall Street, extending the market's modest losses from a day earlier.

A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of "cyber-terrorism."

SunTrust says 1.5 million clients' data potentially compromised in following employee theft

As doors close in the US, Chinese telecoms and smartphone giant Huawei shifts focus to Europe

Attorneys for a British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping a computer virus got more time to prepare for arguments on whether to suppress statements he made to the FBI after his arrest on a criminal indictment

Attorneys for a British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping a computer virus got more time to prepare for arguments on whether to suppress statements he made to the FBI after his arrest on criminal indictment

Stocks closed lower for the first time this week, weighed down by losses in technology and consumer products companies.

Social media is helping fuel activism by teachers seeking better wages and improved funding for education across the country

U.S. stocks are moving broadly lower in late-afternoon trading, placing the market on track for its first loss this week

Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility to manufacture a Mars rocket that will be so big it will require an oceangoing barge for transport to launch sites

A Los Angeles City Council committee has approved an environmental review exemption for a tunnel Elon Musk wants to dig to test a novel underground transportation system

A measure approved by Maryland lawmakers would create more transparency for online political ads on social media platforms like Facebook to help stop foreign influence in the state's elections

Even as stock markets struggle around the world, investors are continuing to pour money into funds that invest in stocks from China, Brazil and other emerging economies

U.S. stocks are moving lower in midday trading, weighed down by losses in technology and consumer products companies.

Roughly seven out of every 10 adults worldwide now has some form of a bank account, the World Bank said, fueled by the proliferation of cell phone-based bank accounts

The parliament in Belarus has passed a measure prohibiting internet users from commenting on forums without authorization and requiring online publications to register with the government as mass media

The teachers behind the public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and have spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky are using social media intensely to drum up support

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to step up investments in Thailand

The Chinese government says Qualcomm Inc.'s plan for its $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors 'has difficulty' resolving concerns of anti-monopoly regulators