What CES 2013 will bring: Startups, Qualcomm’s coming out party, and fewer tablets

This year's Consumer Electronics Show is shaping up to be strikingly different from previous years -- and it may just hint at changes for the entire technology industry in 2013.

Even without Microsoft, this year’s CES is going to be a big one, CEA head says

This year's show will probably match last year's 153,000 attendees, as the tech industry prepares to storm Las Vegas. CEA head Gary Shapiro tells us what's going to be hot.

Launch.it will make sense of the startup news bonanza at CES 2013

Launch.it, a New York City-based startup that has built a platform for managing and distributing news, has been tapped to power the onslaught of news coming from startups at the Consumer Electronics Show next month.

Americans could spend $32B this weekend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals

Up to 147 million Americans are planning to shake off their turkey dinners, get up early, and visit their favorite retailers this coming Black Friday. And they'll spend almost $30 billion doing it.

CES 2013 madness begins: What’s new and hot this year (gallery)

We're still about two months away from CES 2013 in Las Vegas, but that's not stopping the Consumer Electronics Association from trying to drum up excitement for the show.

4K HD now officially known as Ultra HD — let the next-gen TV confusion begin (updated)

Forget "4K." The next-generation high definition standard will be officially called "Ultra High Definition" when it hits homes.

Consumer Electronics Show breaks record with 153,000 attendees

The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show was the biggest such event in the show’s 44-year history, with more than 153,000 attendees, up from 149,000 a year ago.

The show drew 3,100 exhibitors across 1.861 million square feet of space. The …

Interview part two: CEA chief Gary Shapiro says CES will be stellar, even without Microsoft, in years to come

The Consumer Electronics Show is in good shape for years to come, even though Microsoft is pulling out of the top keynote slot for the 2013 show, according to show chief Gary Shapiro.

Shapiro, president and chief executive of the …

Interview: CEA chief Gary Shapiro pushes anti-SOPA agenda

Gary Shapiro, chief executive and president of the Consumer Electronics Association, feels good about how government is jumping on the technology competitiveness issue in a bipartisan way.

But in an interview with VentureBeat on the eve of the group’s Consumer …

CES opening: The PC is no longer the center of the digital market explosion

The consumer electronics industry is humming with great acceptance of digital consumer electronics devices, and now we’re about to see the morphing of computing into more and more non-computing devices.

Shawn Dubravac, chief economist and director of research at the …

CES 2012 to be one of the biggest tech trade shows ever, with Ultrabooks and startups galore

Putting recession fears behind it, the Consumer Electronics Show coming in January looks like it’s going to be one of the biggest in history.

The biggest U.S. tech trade show (officially called the 2012 International CES) will draw an estimated …

Veteran Wall Street analyst rates Zynga an “outperform”

Zynga has taken a beating in its first two days of trading as a public company, with the stock closing at $9.05 a share today, down almost 10 percent from its initial public offering price of $10 a share on …

Half of all Black Friday shoppers bought electronic gadgets

About half of all goods purchased over the Black Friday weekend were electronic gadgets, according to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association and polling firm Caravan.

The survey estimate that 118 million Americans will shop Thursday through Monday and …