A brief power disruption forced Toshiba to halt some operations at a memory-chip plant, possibly causing a 20% drop in shipments to companies like Apple over the next two months.

An Indian lawmaker's statement that Tata Group jumped the queue for cellphone spectrum was "attempted character assassination," the company's chairman said.

EBay may have to change the way it protects L'Oréal's trademarks after Europe's highest court said that the cosmetics company can prohibit the sale on the auction site of free samples and products intended for outside Europe.

Intellectual Ventures, which was started by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and has spent a decade buying and filing for patents, filed its first-ever infringement suits against nine big technology companies.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is among 16 billionaires joining a group pledging to give the majority of their wealth to charity. Others include AOL's Steve Case, and investor Carl Icahn.

National Semiconductor reported a 78% jump in profit on sharply higher sales and improved margins, but issued a tepid revenue outlook.

Why isn't the much reported upon WikiLeaks scandal a trending topic on Twitter? Blame Justin Bieber. According to Twitter representatives, the trending list is automatically generated by an algorithm that "attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously." In other words, the list picks up on spikes of new hot topics as opposed to topics like WikiLeaks, which are generating a lot of interest, but at a steady, constant level.