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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his media company won't get into a bidding war with Microsoft for the right to take over Web portal Yahoo ...

Microsoft's Xbox price-cutting campaign is going global, though it's not clear whether U.S. consumers will be in line for any additional discounts ...

Microsoft's chief software architect said the company will not rush to integrate its Web advertising system with that of possible merger partner Yahoo ...

The promise of the Web has long been the ability to personalize, and the shopping experience is no exception ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered frank answers -- and a few dance moves -- on a host of topics Thursday, addressing his company's bid for Yahoo and sharing his thoughts on rivals such as Google and Apple ...

Just days after warning that its first-quarter profit would be hit by weakness in its flash memory business, Intel assured analysts that it was committed to fixing the problems ...

European Union regulators are poised to approve Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, according to published reports, handing the search giant a major victory and clearing the way for the US$3.1 billion takeover to be closed quickly ...

Seeking to buy time for its directors to explore alternatives before Microsoft can mount a campaign to win seats on its board, Yahoo has modified the way it nominates board members ...

Hoping to become the portal of choice into the mobile Web, Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled onePlace, a content and services management tool meant to become a customized mobile Web starting page ...

In the latest sign the music distribution business continues to be roiled by change, Nine Inch Nails has released its new album in a variety of formats, including giving part of it away on file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent ...

Online brokerage E*Trade has named Donald H. Layton as its new chief executive officer, giving the financial services industry veteran the task of stemming a stock price drop and finding profitable growth opportunities ...

Even in a post CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) world, where legal protections and technological advances give consumers more control than ever over their inboxes, e-mail remains a key component of many interactive marketing strategies ...

Wikileaks.org won a reprieve Friday from a judge's order that had shut down its U.S. site for more than a week. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets. He issued the new ruling after he heard a fresh round of arguments Friday ...

PC maker Dell posted double-digit sales growth for its fourth quarter, but missed analysts' profit and revenue targets. The results suggest that the onetime market leader's new retail strategy and turnaround plans are still works in progress ...

Tension appears to be rising days after a hearing that was meant to help clear the air over the flap involving Comcast's management of Internet traffic. Some groups claim the public was deliberately shut out of the hearing by Comcast, and New York State investigators are asking the cable company to turn over records relating to its practices ...

Sprint unveiled a US$29.5 billion loss for its fourth quarter, much of it tied to the lower-than-expected value of its Nextel acquisition. The company will not pay out a dividend to shareholders as it seeks to preserve cash resources while it tries to engineer a turnaround plan ...

Google Thursday launched a wiki-like Web information-sharing tool that the search company hopes will become a quick-start collaboration platform and a place to tie together work done on its growing family of productivity applications ...

The Federal Communications Commission is prepared to step in and prevent Internet service providers from arbitrarily regulating Web traffic to control demand on their networks if it deems such moves are necessary ...

In a bid to retain its leadership in the gaming space amid growing competition, Electronic Arts has launched a US$2 billion takeover bid against rival Take-Two Interactive, an offer quickly rejected by the smaller company as "inadequate." ...

T-Mobile confirmed Thursday it is testing an Internet-based callingplan meant to replace traditional land lines, a move that came just a day after it joined key rivals in announcing a flat-rate mobile plan that could help change the economics of the wireless industry ...