If you’re looking to buy an Apple TV, you’re going to have an exceedingly difficult time doing so. As of this writing, BestBuy.com and Walmart.com don’t even list the Apple TV on their sites, and Amazon has stopped selling it. Apple’s online store is the only major e-commerce Web site CNET has come across that [...]

Kellogg announced plans on Wednesday to buy Procter & Gamble‘s Pringles business for $2.695 billion, after a previous deal with Diamond Foods fell apart. The new deal comes a week after Diamond announced it would restate its financial statements for the last two years following an internal inquiry into the company’s accounting practices. Soon after, [...]

Apple’s $46.33 billion dollar holiday quarter and the 73+ million shipped Macs and iOS devices are clear stand outs in the newest NPD research note exposing Apple as the only brand to have grown sales in the all-important holiday quarter. Same cannot be said for rivals Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Sony and Dell – all experiencing missteps in holiday-quarter [...]

Apple’s not holding an event in February — strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events. [...]

Rivals in the world of online videogames, Hasbro Inc. and Zynga Inc. are becoming partners in the physical realm of toys and board games. Under a pact announced Thursday, Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble and Monopoly, will create games and toys from Zynga’s popular online games, which include “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars.” Though both companies [...]

Procter & Gamble finally has begun rolling out to Walmart stores one of its biggest product introductions in recent history: Tide Pods. But delays in getting this innovation to market, along with headwinds from the general economy, have caught the CPG giant in the twin pincers of cost pressures and greater competition. P&G CEO Bob [...]

Apple and Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart Stores’ [WMT 61.818 0.198 (+0.32%) ] warehouse clubstore, are reported to be in talks to put Apple stores within 47 of Sam’s U.S. locations, according to a report in 9to5Mac, a website for Apple enthusiasts. The report, which cites unnamed sources for the information, said the move would expand an [...]