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The European Union has announced a strategy to boost the use of cloud computing among its members in the private and public sectors. This includes establishing standards for interoperability, data portability and reversibility, the development of model contracts, government spending on cloud computi...

IBM launched a major initiative on Wednesday with the goal of targeting middle-market companies via their managed service providers. Increasingly, middle market companies are turning to companies that deliver technology solutions on a pay-as-you-go-model, said Mike McClurg, IBM's VP of global mid-ma...

Comcast has grown and changed so much over the last 15 years that many expect this wave to continue. It may, but for that to happen Comcast must realize the marketplace is changing and steer through the upcoming rapids. Can it do that? Back in the 1990s, Comcast was a small cable television company....

The revolving door at Yahoo continued to turn on Tuesday as the CEO Marissa Mayer announced bold new plans that included bringing in a new CFO, Ken Goldman. Mayer is the latest in a string of chiefs to take turns at the company's helm. Yahoo has had three CEOs and two interim CEOs in just a little m...

Staples is joining the ranks of big box retailers that want to push deeper into an activity that historically has been of secondary importance to them -- e-commerce. That is not to say that retailers such as Walmart or Target have been absent from the online sales space. Quite the contrary, in fact....

RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins on Monday told a crowd of developers that BlackBerry was still very much a player in the mobile world. He made the somewhat startling pronouncement that the company's subscriber base had risen to 80 million from 78 million over the most recent quarter, despite the ...

The U.S. government is worried about the improper release of federal information that finds its way into the electronic IT systems of all federal contractors. In a recent notice, the government said it was seeking comment from the business community on a proposal to tighten security related to the t...

Facebook came under fire again on Monday as a privacy advocate called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the social network's relationship with data marketer Datalogix. This wasn't just another instance of what have become typical privacy concerns with Facebook. The latest call came fro...

MySpace is rolling out a sleek, media-centric new version of its social network in an effort to restore some of its Web popularity. MySpace was once one of the hottest online social networks, but it declined with the rise of Facebook and Twitter. MySpace posted a video this week previewing its new l...

If Wall Street could truly predict a company's future, then Facebook should be packing up its offices this morning. The social media giant's stock value dropped close to 10 percent on Monday, to $20.79. The trigger for the stock drop -- this time -- was a report in Barron's questioning whether Face...

Technologically inclined businesses and other organizations have long enjoyed what I call IT "trickle down": Continuing, rapid development results in the mainstreaming of hardware, software and services that were originally unthinkably expensive and specialized. This doesn't mean that higher-end ...

Oracle reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter in 2013 last week, telling a tale of two product lines: Its software operations fared respectably, while its hardware slumped dramatically. Hardware systems product revenue was down 24 percent. "These are tough times, and companies are still not ...

The launch of smartphones with the capacity for e-commerce created a new channel for Internet merchants to address, mobile commerce. M-commerce revenues are expected to grow to $31 billion by 2016, according to Forrester Research. The number of mobile devices available for making purchases on the ...

Trulia, an online real estate listing company, hit it out of the park Thursday in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock priced at $17 per share and then opened at $22.10. It rose an eye-popping 48 percent to reach $25.20 per share at one point before settling in at $24 p...

Microsoft won another patent victory over Google's Motorola in Germany this week, after a European court ruled that several Motorola mobile products infringed on a Microsoft patent dealing with touchscreen data input. Microsoft has the option to pay a bond to enforce an injunction against several Mo...