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Apple Inc.'s stock price dropped as much as 10% following the news that the company's chief executive, Steven Jobs would take a medical leave until the end of June after saying that his medical condition was found to be more complex than originally thought. Jobs was previously treated successfully for pancreatic cancer.

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE AND JOANN S. LUBLIN TECHNOLOGY Will Apple CEO Jobs make it to the party? After months of uncertainty about Steve Jobs's health, the Apple Inc. AAPL-Q [...]

Byline: DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI AND YUKARI IWATANI KANE ENTERTAINMENT Gaming giants take different paths to woo players Sony Corp. introduced a smaller and lighter PlayStation Portable game machine and Nintendo Co. [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE With chief executive Steve Jobs out on medical leave, Apple Inc. hasn't announced a major new product this year. That has freed the rumour mill to [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF The sudden absence of chief executive officer Steve Jobs couldn't come at a more challenging time for Apple Inc. The Cupertino, Calif.-based [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE AND JACOB GOLDSTEIN; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF Seeking to quell speculation about his health, Apple Inc. chief executive officer Steve Jobs disclosed that he has been [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE AND JUSTIN SCHECK Even Apple Inc. is beginning to suffer in this year's dismal holiday season, and worries are mounting the recession will weigh on its [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE TOKYO -- Sony Corp. unveiled flat-screen LCD television sets that are thinner and display sharper images than before, as it gears up for what is expected [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE; WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF TOKYO -- Sony Corp. is releasing a new safari game this week for its PlayStation 3 video game console that purposely steers [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE In an old seaport city near its Osaka headquarters, Sharp Corp. is building a $9-billion (U.S.) factory complex the size of 32 baseball stadiums to make [...]

Byline: SARAH McBRIDE AND YUKARI IWATANI KANE As Toshiba Corp. prepares to formally surrender to Sony Corp. in a long and brutal format war over high-definition DVDs, the movie studios [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE AND SARAH McBRIDE TOKYO AND LOS ANGELES -- Toshiba Corp. is expected to pull out of the HD DVD business early this week, people familiar with [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE; Jay Alabaster contributed to this article TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said it plans to sell a device in Europe that lets users record television programs onto [...]

Byline: YUKARI IWATANI KANE TOKYO -- Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japan's largest telecommunications operator, said it plans to turn to activities outside its core to keep growing while suffering [...]

The Japanese publishing industry is looking to weblogs for inspiration for books, as exemplified by the success of 'Demon Wife Diaries,' which started as a blog, became a book, and is now spawning a television show, a movie and a video game.

Sony Corp. is having difficulties bringing the new PlayStation 3 to market on time and the company has already cut prices and sales projections.

Japan's cellular telephone manufacturers such as NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. are being forced by market saturation to rely on special features to continue to sell cellular telephones.

Investors are pressuring Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. to sell its JVC subsidiary because its losses are hurting the parent's bottom line.

Apple Inc is putting its support behind its new iAd network, and thus is shutting down Quattro Wireless Inc., the advertising network it acquired in the early part of this year.

The departure of Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive officer Mark Hurd over corporate ethics violations involving business expenses and a relationship with a contractor has investors jittery and bailing out, but customers so far are staying with the company.