Apple continues to expand in China with the debut of online shopping at Apple's website and the Chinese App Store on the iPhone and iPad. The cloud-based iTunes is still nowhere to be seen, but a new rumor points to Apple acquiring yet another streaming music service to keep competition low.

It's common knowledge that U.S. companies are sitting on a large pile of cash. Moody's estimates that pile to be worth $1 trillion. It must…

Homebuilders, already weak, are expected to face more pressure in the form of higher mortgage rates in 2011.

A new partnership with tech service company Unisys is set to help Apple grow their business in the professional and government markets. The new MacBook Air laptops can't run the latest version of Skype. Finally, a new glitch discovered in iOS 4.1 pokes holes in iPhone security.

Recent stock market movement seems to be influenced more by the daily gyrations of the U.S. dollar than strong third-quarter earnings reports.

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (NYSE: DD) posted third quarter EPS of $0.40 on revenue of $7.07 billion, compared with analysts' expectations of EPS of $0.34 and revenue of $6.67 billion. But earnings were down from the same period a year ago, when EPS totaled $0.45. Combined with a drop in operating margin, DuPont's shares have fallen about -2% in early trading.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) have a lot in common. Both redefined music with portable players – Apple with it’s recent iPod, and Sony with its trademarked Walkman that debuted in 1979.

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced this morning that it is bringing its mobile payment test programs to the Big Apple this fall, letting smartphone users pay for their drinks and other sundry purchases at the famous coffee retailer.

Where past rumors of a follow up to Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Playstation Portable handheld video game device have flared up and then quickly died after stern a "no comment" from the technology manufacturer, the most recent talk of a PSP2 refuses to die down.

A new hiring push at customer service call centers used by Verizon and Apple is the latest sign pointing toward the Verizon iPhone. Meanwhile, Apple is set to open their new billion dollar data center in North Carolina. Finally, Nintendo acknowledges that Steve Jobs's company is the biggest threat to the Nintendo 3DS.

Credit has enjoyed an even stronger start to autumn that stocks, and the stock market is ''now the cheapest it has ever been relative to credit'' since the junk bond market began in the 1980s.

As the Federal Reserve balance sheet grows, more Treasury bonds get taken out of the financial system as more electronic dollars enter it. Those crispy electronic dollars, directed by the financial institutions that have tendered their Treasury bonds to the Fed, go chasing after other forms of debt.

The bloodbath on Nov. 2 will have major repercussions for the stock market, and you can't afford to be caught unprepared. Here's what you must do now.

With more than twenty businesses in the mobile space receiving capital from Kleiner's iFund, investors are patiently waiting to see which of the stable will be the next ngmoco.

McDonald's plans to raise menu prices to help offset rising commodities costs.

After months of stalled plans, cancelled prototypes, and speculation, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has finally unveiled their iPad killer, the HP Slate 500.

The main source of pressure on stocks and other risky assets over the past two weeks has been the rise in the U.S. dollar. This has contributed to an unwinding of the dollar-drop driven risk rally that saw all types of assets -- including foreign stocks, gold, crude oil, and base metals -- climb higher in unison. But it hasn't been a smooth climb.