Ben Ames

Hynix Semiconductor and Toshiba have agreed to share licenses for using one another's semiconductor patents, putting an end to several lawsuits, Hynix said Tuesday.

U.S. and Canadian stock regulators filed fraud charges on Monday against several former executives of Nortel Networks , accusing them of twisting accounting practices to make it seem that the company was meeting Wall Street expectations.

Research in Motion Ltd. will search for a new chairman of its board after CEO Jim Balsillie stepped down from the job Monday, taking blame for his role in a stock-option scam that will cost the company US$250 million in restated earnings.

IBM Corp. has taken a large stride in its race with Intel Corp. to make faster, smaller chips by building silicon transistors from a rare combination of metals

The new team of leaders at Dell Inc. is weighing a request to give customers the option to purchase PCs with the Linux OS, instead of the default Windows, after thousands of users voted for that idea on a company blog.

Just two weeks after expanding its relationship with Best Buy Co. Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd. said Wednesday it will try to win even more U.S. small business customers by selling its notebook PCs at Circuit City Stores Inc.'s retail shops.

Stock in Dell Inc. was rising Monday on news that founder Michael Dell plans to remain as CEO for several years, trim the number of managers reporting directly to him and eliminate bonuses.

A group of investors filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that Dell Inc. had used illegal accounting methods to hide secret kickback payments paid by Intel Corp.