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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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.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 ...