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Opponents of the pending $39 billion merger between wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mobile are taking legal action with New York-based law firm Bursor & Fisher in a bid to block the deal. Eleven arbitration cases have been filed on behalf of AT&T customers, and the law firm hopes more angry...

Intel's recently announced plans to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a privately held fabless Ethernet semiconductor company, may seem counterintuitive to some. Founded in 1999, Fulcrum develops integrated, standards-based 10- and 40-GbE switch silicon designed to deliver low latency and workload-balan...

Video game analyst Scott Steinberg answers the question, "Why did EA buy PopCap Games, and is it a marriage made in heaven?" In a nutshell, Steinberg does see bliss ahead for companies, if EA can successfully integrate the PopCap "scamps," as he calls them, into its corporate culture. EA badly wants...

Online financial services provider E-Trade responded to pressure from stake holder Citadel Friday, days after the hedge fund sent a letter to the brokerage service demanding a review of strategies, including discussing a sale of the company. Citadel requested a vote on a number of its proposals, suc...

Because of power tools like marketing automation, marketers are able to contribute to revenue in a very measurable way. Expectations are high because of this capability -- like salespeople, marketers are now accountable for making a direct revenue contribution to the top line. They are being aske...

Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings Thursday, and despite stalled sales of Windows, strong Xbox 360 and Kinect numbers boosted the company's to revenue 8 percent higher than the same period last year, at $17.37 billion. Operating and net incomes also increased by 4 and 30 percent, respectively...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that Google+ could be the most significant product release in the history of social media. That declaration was based on my belief that this platform represents Google's best -- and perhaps last -- chance to offer Facebook any competition in the social networking arena...

AT&T collected $31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performa...

AT&T collected $31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performa...

Twenty-five years ago, I was in the business of auditing phone bills for many companies and saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Back then, that was a lot of money. I felt like Santa Claus and had lots of happy clients. Today, the utility and phone bill auditing business is even more...

Isis, a mobile commerce venture that includes the U.S.' largest wireless providers, announced Tuesday that Visa, MasterCard and American Express will be partnering with the organization. The agreement makes Isis, a joint venture between AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and supported by Discover at its...

The final voyage of NASA's space shuttle program represents the biggest collapse of a national exploration program since China turned inward after the remarkable 15th century voyages of Chinese Admiral Zheng He. The space shuttle descended from the original Kennedy-era response to the Soviet investm...

Let's face it, texting is ubiquitous. A constant stream of information comes and goes through our phones. Harnessing the power of this medium to reach customers is the goal of a whole new breed of mobile marketers. "If you want to reach everyone, text messaging is the only way to do that," said Josh...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner voiced his opinion on Google+ on Monday, saying there just isn't enough room for the search giant's foray into social media. Weiner made his remarks at an event in San Jose, Calif., sharing the stage with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher and William Morris agent Ari Emanuel. Swish...

The latest e-business report from ACSI, The American Customer Satisfaction Index, has some bad news for Facebook -- and by extension, yet more good news for Google. The survey, produced in partnership with customer experience analytics firm ForeSee Results, found that despite a small 3 percent jump ...