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The Oakmark Funds group, one of Dell's larger shareholders, sold its stake after Blackstone withdrew its potential bid for the PC maker.

A rare earnings miss for IBM tugged the Dow Jones industrial average lower on Friday, while the rest of the market headed toward slight gains after a turbulent week. Quarterly earnings for the country's largest provider of computer services fell short of forecasts for the first time since 2005.Read more on NewsOK.com

Dell's 'deteriorating' financial condition leads to Blackstone deciding to withdraw its bid for the computer company.

Leap Motion, a highly accurate device allowing users to control their PCs with gestures, will be embedded into a range of HP laptops. The controller is able accurately to detect the movement of 10 fingers at once, allowing for intricate gesture-based controls.

IDC says PC global shipments of PCs fell 14 percent in the first three months this year, the sharpest plunge seen since the research firm started tracking the industry in 1994....

Using a laser-printer-like machine, chiplets can be used singly or placed precisely in a circuit, upending the convention of squeezing as many transistors as possible into one tiny chip.

Gartner’s latest forecast has PC shipments in secular decline with mobile devices in strong uptrends though 2017.  Gartner forecast desktop and laptop PC shipments to decline 7.6% in 2013.

Silicon Valley and several small companies and nonprofits are working to increase the number of women in the technology industry by teaching teenage girls how to write computer code.

Raspberry Pi, the tiny, ultra-cheap, Linux-based PC, went on sale Monday in the U.S. through retailer Allied Electronics, but it's already out of stock. The A version of the computer, which only costs $25, has 256MB of RAM, a single USB 2.0 socket, an HDMI, SD card, and 3.5 audio sockets, but no Ethernet port. Available only through Allied, the A is now completely out of stock for U.S. customers. The $35 Raspberry Pi B is also out of stock at Allied, but it can be bought through Newark, another retailer, which only carries that particular model.

The Seattle-based Web retailer said the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD with 4G wireless capability will start at $399, down from $499. Amazon reduced the price of the Wi-Fi only version by $30 to $269.