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Deal With ‘GTA’ Team Brightens Take-Two’s Gloomy Outlook

Shares of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software fell 26 percent to US$8.91 in late-day trading Thursday after the company announced a disappointing financial forecast for the holiday shopping period ...

Oracle Profit Slip May Signal Deepening Recession

In yet another sign of weakening in the technology sector, enterprise software giant Oracle announced a decline in profits on Thursday ...

LinkedIn Reshuffles Executive Deck

Business networking company LinkedIn has undergone a changing of the guard. CEO Dan Nye is out and has been replaced by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. ...

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Mahalo Spices Up Information-Sharing With Cash Incentives

A heavily financed Internet startup has launched a new question-and-answer search engine with a twist -- users pay one another to get answers to questions ...

New York Gov Wants a Few Pennies for a Song

New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed a 4 percent tax on digital music downloads and other "digitally delivered entertainment services." ...

Pensions, 401(k)s Latest Casualties as Motorola Struggles to Survive

Struggling mobile phone maker Motorola announced drastic measures on Wednesday to cut costs as demand for its products flag in the now year-old U.S. recession ...

2009 Chip Sales Will Be Far Worse Than Expected, Says Gartner

The technology industry was rocked by more dismal news Tuesday with a Gartner report predicting sales of semiconductors will drop by 16.3 percent to US$219.2 billion in 2009 due to the recession and lower consumer spending ...

Best Buy Takes a Beating in Q3

Consumer electronics giant Best Buy is the latest casualty of the recession and slowdown in consumer spending ...

FCC Puts Nationwide Wireless Broadband on Back Burner

The Federal Communications Commission canceled a meeting scheduled to plan how to divvy up wireless spectrum for a free, nationwide broadband Internet network ...

Free Software Foundation Hauls Cisco to Court for Open Source License Violations

The Free Software Foundation filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems on Thursday, alleging the networking giant is in violation of numerous open source licenses ...

Verizon Paws the Ground as High-Speed Wireless Fight Begins

The race to see who will dominate the world of ultra-fast, 4G wireless broadband networks is on ...

Comcast Revs Its Engine in Broadband-Speed Race

Cable giant Comcast announced Thursday it will roll out new ultra-fast broadband services in Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and Fort Wayne, Ind., by the end of December ...

Yahoo Investor Pens Public Plea for Microsoft Search Deal

One of Yahoo's largest shareholders is urging the beleaguered Internet company's board to sell its search assets to Microsoft ...

Can Two New Directors Turn Sun’s Ship Around?

Sun Microsystems' biggest institutional investor -- Southeastern Asset Management -- plans to add two new members to the struggling server maker's board of directors ...

Recession Takes Toll on Sony

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony announced Tuesday that it will lay off 8,000 full-time employees by March 2009 and slash spending in an attempt to reposition itself for a prolonged global recession. It also plans to reduce seasonal and temporary workers ...

Obama Public Works Plan Could Bring Relief to Tech Sector

Part of President-elect Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the economy through a massive public works program will touch upon the technology sector, which has seen its share of woes in recent months ...

Former Yahoo Search Exec Joins Microsoft Upper Echelon

Microsoft has tapped Qi Lu, a former Yahoo Search executive, to run its Internet unit ...

Charity on the Cheap: Online Opportunities to Give Without Spending

With the U.S. in the throes of what could be the worst recession in decades, consumers have made dramatic cutbacks in discretionary spending ...

AT&T Slashes 12,000 Jobs as Landline Accounts Dwindle

AT&T, the largest phone company in the U.S., announced Thursday that it will cut about 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4 percent of its total workforce, starting this month and through next year ...

AT&T Slashes 12,000 Jobs as Landline Accounts Dwindle

AT&T, the largest phone company in the U.S., announced Thursday that it will cut about 12,000 jobs, or roughly 4 percent of its total workforce, starting this month and through next year ...

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