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The U.S. Senate on Monday voted 69-27 to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, a measure that gives states the tools necessary to collect sales taxes from online retailers that do business in their states but don't have a physical presence there. ...

The European Commission has lodged a statement of objections against Motorola Mobility, the first formal step in an antitrust action ...

There's plenty to lust after in Google Glass -- if you're a tech aficionado, that is. A beta version of Google's widely hyped, Web-connected eyewear has been out for a few weeks, and rave reviews have been the rule rather than the exception ...

This year could be the best of times and the worst of times for mobile marketers, suggests a report Forrester released earlier this year. ...

Intel announced Thursday that COO Brian Krzanich will take the helm on May 16, replacing current CEO Paul Otellini, who will retire this month after 38 years with the company, eight of them as its chief ...

The mobile industry isn't doing enough to prevent cellphone theft or to help its victims, The New York Times said in a recent front-page article. ...

Salesforce has announced that a product it first unveiled last summer, Salesforce Communities, will go live this summer. ...

The worldwide tablet market is surging. Shipments increased 142.4 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2013, IDC reported Wednesday, for a total of 49.2 million units. That figure surpasses the total for the entire first half of 2012. ...

Asana on Wednesday announced Organizations, a feature that stakes its claim in the enterprise space ...

Microsoft has launched an ad for Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone, presumably with the goal of neutralizing competitors enough to make some inroads in the hot mobile market. ...

LivingSocial's customers received some bad news on Friday: The popular daily deal site had been hacked, compromising some 50 million members' customer data. ...

PowerObjects has released PowerMap, a new add-on for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This is the first iteration of the product, and the functionality is basic. ...

The market digested the earnings report Amazon released on Thursday, and toward the end of trading Friday it was clear investors were less than pleased, with the company's stock down by about 6.5 percent. ...

If you think mobile CRM has been popular to date, you ain't seen nothing yet. ...

The EU Competition Commissioner has revealed more information about the remedies Google has proposed in order to settle a brewing antitrust case over its search operations. Google formally submitted the remedies to the commissioner earlier this month, but few details were offered to the public at that time. ...

T-Mobile can breathe a sigh of relief: After an initial show of reluctance by MetroPCS Communication investors, 80 percent approved its sale to T-Mobile at a special shareholder meeting held on Wednesday. ...

Hoopla has debuted Game Center, a new sales performance module that uses contests to incentivise CRM software users. ...

Shortly after 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the world just about ended as far as Wall Street was concerned, when The Associated Press tweeted that President Obama had been injured by explosions at the White House. Within minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 145 points. Shortly afterward, the AP issued a statement that its Twitter account had been hacked.

If Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray ever imagined that House of Representatives Republicans would eventually warm up to the bureau, that hope has surely been dashed by now. ...

The market is popping champagne corks over Netflix's latest earnings report. A day after the company delivered boffo results and beat Street expectations for the first quarter, its stock has soared by some 25 percent. ...