Sprint is trying to entice AT&T and Verizon Wireless customers to defect by promising to slash their wireless bills in half. The beleaguered No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier has adopted an aggressive stance since CEO Marcelo Claure took the reigns this past summer. 

As growth in tablets slows, Apple is under pressure to get iPads into shoppers' hands this holiday season. Fortunately for Apple and other gadget makers, there remains plenty of interest in tablets, with the device ranked as the most-wanted tech item on holiday wish lists, according to Consumer Electronics Association?s annual Holiday Purchase Pattern Study.

At a tech-industry meeting in the early days of the media Web site BuzzFeed, founder Jonah Peretti was surprised to find a General Electric Co. executive milling about in the crowd.

Microsoft has acquired the mobile email startup Acompli, the tech giant announced today on its Web site. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the tech news site Re/code reports that Microsoft paid over $200 million.