The battery boom is coming to China, California and basically everywhere else — and it will be even bigger than previously thought.

This year’s holiday shopping season was off and running Thursday, right after Halloween ended.

IBM’s $33bn purchase of Red Hat Inc. — the world’s second-largest technology deal ever — is aimed at catapulting the company into the ranks of the top cloud software competitors.

The irony is that Sears figured out shopping from home long before Amazon’s Jeff Bezos even was born.

The LaCroix brand of fizzy water came seemingly out of nowhere in the last few years, propelling its parent company to nearly $1bn in annual sales.

China secretly inserted surveillance microchips into servers used by major technology companies, including Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., in an audacious military operation likely to further inflame trade tensions with the United States.

In Southern California’s Inland Empire, where some 20,000 people toil in Amazon’s vast network of warehouses, the company’s announcement was seen as a boost for the local economy.

Jon Fawcett wanted to build a cellphone cable that wouldn’t fray. So he developed a charging cord wrapped in stainless steel sturdy enough to withstand an electric chainsaw.

What happens to gadgets when you're done with them? Too often, they explode.