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Yahoo has reached a tentative agreement to settle a class action lawsuit. The portal and search company agreed to pay millions in attorneys fees and potentially may have to refund millions more in advertising revenue The settlement, which was given preliminary approval Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles, calls for Yah...
Sending a competitive shot across the bow of e-tailers such as Amazon and eBay, Google Thursday launched its long-rumored online payment system, now known as Google Checkout Checkout launches with a handful of major online merchants having signed up, including Jockey, the Starbucks Store, Levi's, Dockers, Buy.com, Timberland and Zales jewelers. Goo...
Intel said it will sell off its handheld chip line, the first of what could be several significant changes at the market leading chipmaker as it bids to focus on the most profitable parts of its business The company announced Tuesday it had reached an agreement to sell its handheld and mobile communications chip business unit to Marvell Technology ...
Shares of video game producer Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) plunged to new lows Tuesday after the company revealed it had been served with grand jury subpoenas as part of an apparent investigation into a host of company activities. At issue is whether company executives knew about explicit sex scenes hidden in its "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" game...
In the latest example of the tension between government efforts in the war on terror and the media, the Bush administration is condemning news outlets that revealed details of a program that used the Internet to scan bank records for evidence of terrorism financing Speaking at the White House, President Bush labeled the reports, which appeared in T...
In the early days of the Web, smart small Internet businesses could compete with just about anyone by working to make sure their Web pages were found first on search engines Fast forward 10 years. Search engines have become increasingly sophisticated. Paid search listings have exploded into the picture. Large corporations are now every bit as sophi...
Hoping to put its software at the center of a unified PC-based communications system that encompasses voice as well as data, Microsoft said it would work with a number of partners in the telecom and tech industries to produce a range of devices -- including IP phones and peripherals Microsoft said it would work through strategic alliances with a ra...
In the midst of social networking zeitgeist, many advertisers find themselves torn. The lure of the young demographic that flocks to sites such as MySpace and FaceBook is powerful, but the risks many. The recent case of a 16-year-old being lured into traveling to the Middle East is just the latest example of the potential downside of such sites Th...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday became the latest agency to acknowledge that personal data had been placed at risk due to a lost laptop computer, part of a trend that underscores the wide range of threats facing consumers' personal information The FTC said it would provide free credit monitoring for 110 people whose names, addresses,...
Oracle reported a strong fourth quarter Thursday, saying profit rose 27 percent over a year ago as sales surged 25 percent, with the gains largely attributed to the company's aggressive acquisition strategy The maker of database products and business applications said revenues from new licenses for applications surged 83 percent in the quarter, wit...
With the tech industry still abuzz over the announcement that Bill Gates will step back from the day-to-day operations of Microsoft, the software giant Tuesday acknowledged the immediate departure of one of its top marketing executives Martin Taylor, 36, regarded as a key advisor to CEO Steve Ballmer, left the company after 13 years. Microsoft said...
A former MTV executive is hoping that music will become the killer application for social networking, launching a site that lets users interact with others based on their musical tastes MOG.com, which ex-MTV marketing executive David Hyman created last year with $1.4 million in venture funding, launched in beta form Tuesday. The site is being bille...
Less than two weeks after hopes were dashed that the House of Representatives would include strong net neutrality language in a telecom bill, backers of the approach to ensure Web services companies unfettered access to consumers across high-speed networks are pinning their hopes on lawmakers in the U.S. Senate The Senate is poised to take up the s...
The drumbeat of bad news continues for Vonage (NYSE: VG), with the VoIP startup, whose recent IPO has become something of a train wreck, saying Monday it has been sued by telecom giant Verizon for patent infringement Vonage said it had received notice that parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. and its U.S.-subsidiary Vonage America had been sued by ...
With Bill Gates planning to step back in two years from the software giant he founded, the reality is setting in that the technology world is losing one of its most instantly recognizable and polarizing figures. Observers say the change could be a significant one for both Microsoft and the tech sector as a whole Investors have not reacted strongly...
Hoping to give advertisers greater control over their online campaigns and to match competitors, Google said Friday it had introduced a time scheduling feature to its AdWords platform Ad scheduling, also known as dayparting, enables advertisers to choose precise times when they want their ads to run, or times when they should be held back from bein...
Citing strong revenue growth across its major product lines, Oracle said Thursday it would exceed its previous sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter The announcement from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle gave investors reasons for optimism that the strength would spread to other technology firms heading into the next round of earnin...
Amazon.com, daring to tread on ground where some of the most spectacular dot-com burnouts took place, has begun selling groceries through its sprawling e-tail site Without formally announcing the move, Amazon added a beta version of a "grocery" category, bringing to 34 the number of different product niches the onetime books-movies-and-music retail...
Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging AOL has relaunched Netscape as an open community new...
Even with a steady stream of database breaches that lead to potential identity theft making headlines nearly every day, e-commerce continues to grow steadily, with many consumers increasingly sanguine about turning over sensitive information such as their credit card numbers to online merchants Still, even boosters of e-commerce say ID theft and re...
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