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Nyko 's just unleashed its latest charging base for Wii controllers. This newest unit makes use of induction charging, so you can dispense with the sleeves, and just throw your contollers or Wands straight onto the dock for charging.

Shares of both booksellers fell sharply. Barnes and Borders are caught in a holiday book price war between Amazon.com Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc as they try to compete with the move of book sales online.

For those of us thinking about heading out to buy a TV on Black Friday , where to get the best deals can be a bit confusing.

This week the digital self-publishing company Smashwords announced that they will now supply ebooks to the Amazon.com in the Kindle Store.

For the past few years, holiday cheer has been in short supply for electronics retail chains.

Having already unleashed a flurry of deals, discounts and other incentives, web retailers are looking for strong sales the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she'd miss the smell and feel of real paper.

The parents of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos are donating $10 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for research into using the immune system to cure cancer.

Got stuff? Chances are someone will dangle a discount, gift card or rebate to entice you to trade it in for new merchandise.

Amazon.com is fighting efforts by New York and other states to collect sales taxes for billions of dollars in online sales, reports Michael Mazerov of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities here .

Roku owners already have access to Netflix , Amazon Video On Demand and MLB.tv , but now the set-top box is about to get a lot more interesting.

Amazon.com Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. continue to be the most-talked about retailers in the online social realm, according to the monthly Zeta Buzz Top 25 Retail Standings Index, but Macy's Inc.

At Morningstar, we've always tried to make it easy to find out which stocks and bonds a given mutual fund holds in its portfolio.

When Amazon introduced the second-gen Kindle earlier this year, it had no competition in the wireless e-reader category.

Tuesday was another typical day for John Chow, blogger and Internet entrepreneur in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A year after launching its Frustration-Free Packaging program, Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will begin certifying items from manufacturers as easy to open, giving suppliers that pass the test the right to mark their packages 'Certified Frustration-Free.' "Wrap rage is real," says Nadia Shouraboura, vice president of global fulfillment ...

A screen shot of the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk, as sold on Amazon.com. Every now and then, something for sale on Amazon.com seems so monumentally stupid that it inspires a spontaneous community comedy festival.

Added comment from a Forrester analyst on the e-reader shortage. Update 3:00 p.m. Added comment from Amazon.com. It's shaping up to a be very merry holiday season for Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader. Earlier this week, we reported that Sony could not guarantee that its new Daily Edition Reader would reach online buyers in time for Christmas.

Prices on the Palm Pixi have been cut sharply only days after the went on sale. View Larger Wal-Mart Stores Co.

Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.