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In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless. Electronics recommerce company Gazelle buys this equipment, offering consumers cash, as well as free packaging and shipping -- and then resells i...

Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. First launched as "Second Rotation" in 2006...

Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. First launched as "Second Rotation" in 2006...

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. AT&T will have to prove otherwise if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gets his way. He's asked that the other commissioners approve an administrative hearing on th...

The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger hit another obstacle Tuesday when the chairman of the FCC called the deal harmful to consumers. AT&T will have to prove otherwise if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gets his way. He's asked that the other commissioners approve an administrative hearing on th...

Only weeks after its triumphant initial public offering, it appears daily deal trailblazer Groupon has fallen out of investors' good graces. Its stock price has plunged 15 percent, with shares hovering near their IPO average of $20 or so per unit. In the months leading up to its IPO, Groupon experie...

Penguin Group, one of the largest book publishers in the U.S., has delayed the availability of new e-books in local libraries and will no longer allow OverDrive to loan out digital copies of its titles to Kindles. The publishing group cited security concerns as the reason for the change. Penguin fin...

Shares of HP had slightly recovered by mid-day Tuesday from the overnight slide of up to 6 percent they endured following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report Monday. Its fourth-quarter earnings -- HP's first quarter under the guidance of new CEO Meg Whitman -- beat expectations, though its ...

The flash mob dance by the world's most powerful groups of agencies against ICANN's new gTLD domain name program must not be taken lightly. After all, these global bodies represent the real manipulaters of emotions. They influence our taste, habits and behavior -- like type of cereal, length of skir...

Microsoft's star witness, the company's chairman and former CEO Bill Gates, took the stand in a long-brewing antitrust civil lawsuit that pits Redmond against software maker Novell. The suit is based on an oft-repeated accusation against Microsoft: that it abused its dominant position in the market ...

IBM's recent Information On Demand 2011 conference came at the tail end of a particularly tumultuous year or so for its competitors. HP fired one CEO, gained a new one, fired him and gained another, all while publicly discussing selling or spinning off its largest business unit and losing half its s...

Google and its hardware partners are revamping their approach to Chromebooks with a series of changes. Perhaps most interesting among these, from the consumer perspective at least, is a price cut to the current Samsung and Acer models of roughly $50 or so. Specifically, the WiFi Acer Chromebook dro...

More than 200 labels held by content distributor ST Holdings have decamped Spotify, Simfy, Rdio and Napster recently over concerns the digital music streaming services' business models are detrimental to sales. Most of the labels involved are relatively small. ST Holdings was bowing to pressure from...

The Facebook IPO guessing game has moved into high gear. The latest rumor puts the big event within several weeks, possibly as soon as December. The rumor mill at the social networking firm is in overdrive, with Facebookers reportedly expecting an S1 filing to be made within six weeks. Facebook has ...

The existing model for daily deals is broken. The biggest issue: It's simply not making merchants money. In just a few quick years, daily deals have shifted the concept of local marketing from traditional advertising to blanket discounts aimed at driving first-time customers en masse. While the new...