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Microsoft, Viacom Ally in Google Ad Assault

In a significant boost for its Internet unit, Microsoft has reached a long-term deal to work with media giant Viacom on content and advertising distribution, an agreement worth an estimated US$500 million ...

US Throws EU a Bone Over Net Gambling Ban

In a bid to settle a dispute arising from an aggressive effort to ban gambling by its residents, the United States has agreed to trade concessions meant to make it easier for some European companies to compete against domestic rivals ...

Google’s Knol Initiative – the Unwiki?

Google is launching a new effort to capture human knowledge on theWeb, test-driving Google Knol, a Web-publishing approach that is drawing comparisons to Wikipedia ...

Novell Sales Surge, Restructuring Costs Skyrocket

After a one-week delay, Novell released its fourth quarter earnings Thursday, saying that higher-than-expected costs associated with an ongoing restructuring would weigh on results even as sales of its Linux products surged higher ...

United Online Steers Classmates Off IPO Track

United Online is pulling the plug on a planned initial public offering (IPO) for its Classmates Media unit, citing unfavorable market conditions ...

NBC Replaces Spurned iTunes With Fanfare

Three months after a messy breakup with Apple's iTunes Store,NBC Universal said Tuesday it will make its catalog of TV showsavailable through a download service made by rival portable device maker SanDisk ...

AT&T Boosts Dividend, Launches Buyback and Expands TV Push

In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock ...

AT&T Boosts Dividend, Launches Buyback and Expands TV Push

In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock ...

AT&T Boosts Dividend, Launches Buyback and Expands TV Push

In a nod to its recent success and an expression of confidence in its future, AT&T will boost its dividend by the largest amount ever and buy back as many as 400 million shares of its own stock ...

Holiday E-Tail Sales on a Tear

Though the date didn't garner the advance hype of Cyber Monday, the first Thursday in December actually set the pace for the holiday shopping season so far, with consumers spending a record US$800 million in virtual stores, according to a report released Monday by comScore ...

Microsoft Enters Horse in Mobile Display Ad Stakes

Bidding to stake an early claim on the fast-growing mobile advertising space, Microsoft said Monday it was making display advertising space available on its MSN Mobile portal for the first time and had already signed up advertisers for the service ...

Tech Stocks 2007: Soaring Highs, Blazing IPO, iPhone Fever

At first glance, tech stocks may appear to have missed out on the great stock market rally of 2007. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new all-time high on Oct. 2, the Nasdaq would have had to gain more than 100 percent to match its best level ever ...

IBM Looks to ITC to Settle Its Asus Patent Beef

IBM asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) toinvestigate an alleged patent infringement it says is being committed by Taiwan-based Asus ...

Dell Scores Retail Hat Trick With Best Buy Deal

Dell added another big gun to its fast-growing retail arsenal Thursday, saying it would begin selling some of its personal computers at hundreds of Best Buy stores across the U.S ...

$9K Per Song File-Sharing Fine A-OK With DoJ

The Department of Justice is siding with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), saying the US$222,000 in penalties levied against a file-sharer after a rare jury trial is not unduly excessive ...

Russian Firm Plays Web 2.0 Roulette With LiveJournal Buy

Two years after a merger that helped herald the coming blogging revolution, Six Apart has agreed to sell its LiveJournal counterpart to a Russian media company ...

Vivendi Flexes Gaming Muscle With Activision Stake

French media giant Vivendi will buy a sizable stake in video game publisher Activision and merge the company with its own successful gaming unit, creating a game-development powerhouse ...

TJX to Shell Out $41M in Data Breach Settlement

The price tag on the largest database breach on record moved higherFriday with TJX agreeing to pay nearly US$41 million to settlewith credit card companies and banks that were forced to issue new cards to customers of the retailer to prevent or recover fraudulent charges ...

Zander Swept Into Motorola’s Downward Spiral

Motorola CEO Ed Zander will step down from his post at the end of the year, a victim of a long and deep post-Razr market share slump at the top U.S.-based maker of mobile handsets ...

Amazon Invites Web Surfers to Share Info on Everything

Amazon.com on Thursday launched a site that invites visitors to ask questions and receive answers from fellow users, who will be lured with Amazon currency to share their expertise and opinions ...

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