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One of the conventional views of political pundits after the Nov. 6 Presidential election was that both parties spent billions of dollars on the campaign for a result that did not change the political landscape all that much. Below the broad trends that keep political pundits in business, however, a...

Research In Motion on Monday announced the date on which it has pegged its future: The BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new handsets running it will be officially introduced on Jan. 30. "The event will happen simultaneously in multiple countries around the world," said RIM spokesperson Kim Gie...

Groupon reported disappointing earnings for the third quarter, and shareholders soundly punished the company as a result. It posted a net loss of $3 million, compared with $54.2 million in the same quarter in 2011. Third-quarter revenue clocked in at $568.6 million, compared with $430.2 million a ye...

Walmart is opening its doors on Thanksgiving Day at 8 p.m. local time. To persuade shoppers who may be digesting the biggest meal of the year to leave the comfort of their sofas, the retailer is offering door-busting specials at specific time slots. Customers who are inside the store and standing in...

Priceline is picking up the travel search engine Kayak for $1.8 billion in a deal expected to broaden its mobile offerings and help it fend off unwelcome competition from new entrants to the online travel space. Kayak allows consumers to shop and compare prices on multiple travel sites, earning a re...

There's no better time to get an offer than a few steps into a store -- or so believes Sensewhere, a company focused on hyperlocal interactions with consumers. It just released Adwhere, a location-based mobile application that can position consumers who are indoors and otherwise out of reach of GPS....

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace, and Rising Tide Media hosted our second annual Cloud Channel Summit earlier this week, giving executives from leading cloud and channel companies a peer-to-peer networking forum where they could share perspectives on how to forge successful partnershi...

Sandvine has released a new report on global Internet traffic that points to the growth of online data consumption and implies that the increasing use of legitimate content services such as Netflix may be softening the impact of illegal P2P file-sharing. At face value, that seems difficult to believ...

Sprint will acquire wireless spectrum and customers from U.S. Cellular in the Midwest, in a $480 million deal to expand its services in the area, the companies announced Wednesday. Under the agreement, Sprint will pick up segments of PCS spectrum in multiple Midwestern markets, including Chicago and...

Master Chief is going after some real world conquests in the newly released Halo 4 from Microsoft. In time for the launch of the game, American Express teamed with Microsoft to launch a campaign that will reward players who sync their American Express card to Halo 4 -- and by default, Xbox Live. For...

Perhaps the United States was not the first to get into the 4G LTE wireless data game, but today it may be the most aggressive in rolling it out. The U.S. has more miles of network, more devices, and more subscribers than any other place on Earth. If you listen to the advertising, it seems every ca...

AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will boost capital spending by as much as 16 percent to $22 billion a year for the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. The increase is necessary to compete with Verizon Communications, which is currently upgrading its own network. T...

AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will boost capital spending by as much as 16 percent to $22 billion a year for the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. The increase is necessary to compete with Verizon Communications, which is currently upgrading its own network. T...

Investors sent shares of AOL sharply higher after it reported higher-than-expected earnings and growth in advertising revenue. The company reported a third-quarter profit of $20.8 million, or 22 cents per share, on revenue of $531.7 million. That beat expectations of $521 million and marked a turnar...

The ever-changing and ever-expanding quest to keep information technology systems secure requires collaboration and coordination among government and business enterprises. To foster such joint efforts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has put out the word to U.S. businesses to pro...