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Wiretap Affair Could Oust Murdochs . A key shareholder group is maneuvering to oust Rupert Murdoch and his two sons from the management of News Corp., calling for the board to eject the men and for an independent investigation into the phone hacking scandal --the aftereffects of which are still echoing around the world.

We're expecting Apple to arrive with a shiny new iPad 3 sometime early in 2012, and we think we know a few things about it.

How can schools--desperate to increase technology in the classroom--decide which tablets they should invest in? All the new tablets are an opportunity and a nail-biter for schools: Do you go with the oh-so-sleek iPad?

Google is expected to deliver strong second quarter results on Thursday. The company's position as king of search is sound

I’ve written about Netflix before and how much I like the service. I love the instant gratification of streaming movies and apparently I am one of the few people who doesn’t use the DVD option.

Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Keep DVDs . Netflix will keep its DVD mailing business after all, company CEO Reed Hastings has revealed in a blog post . In August, Netflix announced

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Jobs Biography Pre-orders Up 41,800% On Amazon.com . Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs has seen a surge in pre-orders since the announcement of Jobs' death.

The iPhone 4S is a beaut. But no one has it yet, nor can every Apple fan afford to

Amazon To Buy HP Palm, WebOS?

An insider offers new details about the ironclad security around Apple prototypes: private jets, windowless rooms, amorphous storage cases padlocked to tables whose wood grain signatures are photographed--and much more. We're just days away from Apple's iPhone 5 event, and for the past few weeks (er, months rather), the rumor mill has kicked into high gear. But most stories on Apple's latest game changer derive from speculation or shoddy secondhand sources, or, most enticing, glamour shots of the press invite .

Like two blockbuster summer movies vying for the same audience Apple and Amazon are making major product announcements a week apart.

Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t. The founder and CEO paced across the stage before a massive screen displaying the company’s achievements in recent years--skyrocketing sales of media and a heritage of innovative, beloved gadgets. Then he brandished the new wonder, showing its surprising features and teasing with questions along the lines of "what should we charge for it?" before naming an equally surprising low price.

Just about every news outlet in the world is buzzing about the launch of Amazon's new Kindle tablet, called the Fire. The real story is not the Fire, however. It's Amazon Silk, the new properietary browser created just for Kindle

Deciding whether to build a tablet or smartphone specific site requires an evaluation process, but it could be worth the payoff. Amazon has been making headlines much of September