In the battle for privacy on the Internet, even the most helpful tools designed to fight bank fraud and even find missing children could be used for much more nefarious purposes.

Social-sharing app Path has come under fire for accessing and uploading users' phone address books without their permission. The information has now been deleted, and Path has apologized

After weathering a legal challenge in China from Apple Inc. over the iPad name, a Chinese affiliate of a Hong Kong company says it is mounting its own court action.

On Feb. 29, Microsoft will pull the covers off Windows 8 -- a radical rethinking of the operating system that powers most of the world’s computers that has one clear goal in sight: the iPad.

From the online taxi service Uber -- which regulators are trying to keep out of Washington, D.C. -- to Zipcar.com, tech startups are facing an unexpected challenge: government regulation.