As General Motors Co. prepares for an IPO, the company's majority owner, the US government, is trying to figure out the best way to recover the $43 billion still outstanding from its loan to GM. The roster of potential investors in the IPO includes everyone and everything, from individual investors to pension funds.

Last week, Nokia released its latest smartphone, the 7705 Twist, a device that is an amalgam of features from competing products. The Twist features the same small square form of Apple's new iPod Nano, albeit slightly larger.

Apple's next-generation iPad won't be out for Christmas and will release in 2011's first quarter, suppliers say.

The Chinese government has issued a draft of new regulations governing joint ventures between Chinese and foreign automakers planning to build electric vehicles. The draft is being circulated to government agencies and China's state-owned automakers for comment, but foreign carmakers are not included.

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz dismisses Apple's iAds mobile ad service and is hanging on to a stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), not done dominating Apple headlines, unveiled a preview version of Flash with support for 64-bit operating systems including Mac OS X.

With the rise of the tea party one might expect gun sales to rise in parallel. You would be wrong with that assessment and guilty of what some pundits claim is a gross simplification and stereotype of the grass roots movement.

Advertising research group Nielsen Company has just published the results of their Mobile Apps Playbook survey, the data paints an intriguing portrait of what trends are fueling the skyrocketing sales of smartphones like the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: APPL) iPhone and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Droid powered by the Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system.

Boeing has officially launched plans to connect commercial space flights to the International Space Station in their new CST-100 commercial passenger spacecraft.

Battling back criticism about slow or faulty networks, AT&T (NYSE: T) is on a PR blitz of late, struggling to tout the expensive updates made to its services. But for all the billions being poured into its upgrades, customers say they’re just not seeing the results.

In a move that doubles as a healthy menu addition and a gain for thrifty consumers, Wendy’s (NYSE: WEN) is adding half-sized versions of its new premium salads, luring customers looking to spend less in a tough economy.

AAPL may have started to meet demand for the iPad but with the holiday season coming up, they may need to ramp up production in a big way. Speaking of the iPad, video game developer Epic Games will bring their widely licensed Unreal 3 Engine to Apple's mobile platforms in the near future.

Discount carriers JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU), Southwest (NYSE: LUV) and Frontier – a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET) rank among the top airlines in terms of quality and service, despite their small size – showing these medium airlines are proving formidable foes to traditional carriers.