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Memo to Larry Ellison: The Roman Coliseum halted gladiator combats around 435 A.D. SAP has thrown in the towel and has no interest in continuing a court battle. HP executives are refusing to accept service on your subpoenas, and HP's newly named chief executive Leo Apotheker is lying low, presumably...

Verizon is reportedly toying with a model for tiered pricing for wireless customers who use its upcoming fourth-generation LTE cellular network, considering ways to charge customers differently for different data speeds as well as different monthly data limits. Company CFO Fran Shammo told The Wall ...

Verizon has shown solid growth in recent years, but there could be signs of weakness in its quarterly numbers. I saw this a few months ago and decided to keep my eye on it. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe this is nothing. Maybe it is a temporary blip that won't keep repeating itself -- but something doesn't...

Mega-retailer Best Buy announced on Wednesday it will offer free shipping on a number of specific items through December 21. Products with free shipping include CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as gaming software and accessories. iPods, iPads and iPhones are excluded, as Apple will not allow it ...

Hulu Plus emerged from its four-month preview on Wednesday, opening its streaming TV service to all and chopping $2 off its price tag at the same time. The service allows Hulu users to stream high-definition video to their computers, iPhones, iPads, select Samsung and Sony televisions and Blu-ray pl...

This year's holiday shopping season is poised to break e-commerce records as consumers accelerate their spending online. More consumers are very likely to purchase their holiday gifts online (58 percent) than at brick-and-mortar stores (41 percent) this year, according to Channel Advisor. And more t...

Google will enable contactless shopping with a smartphone in its Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system, which is due to be released in a few weeks, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In a discussion about new features Google is working on, Schmidt mentio...

On a daily basis, virtually every vendor actively tries to poach competitors' customers directly, through partners and via numerous incentive programs and product discounts. In addition, the decision to migrate is no simple technological issue, but one affected by a numerous mitigating factors: how ...

EMC announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Isilon Systems, a "big-data" company, for $2.25 billion in cash. EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci noted that EMC decided to buy Isilon to take advantage of the waves of cloud computing and big data that are expected over the coming decade. Isilon is a majo...

As an Internet marketing tactic, retargeting has never quite reached its stride. However, updated technology, changing market dynamics and new offerings by vendors -- especially Google's entrance into the space -- is changing that. Briefly, retargeting is a marketing response triggered when a consum...

As an Internet marketing tactic, retargeting has never quite reached its stride. However, updated technology, changing market dynamics and new offerings by vendors -- especially Google's entrance into the space -- is changing that. Briefly, retargeting is a marketing response triggered when a consum...

As an Internet marketing tactic, retargeting has never quite reached its stride. However, updated technology, changing market dynamics and new offerings by vendors -- especially Google's entrance into the space -- is changing that. Briefly, retargeting is a marketing response triggered when a consum...

Rumors have been flying wildly since Facebook sent out a press invitation for an announcement Nov. 15 in San Francisco. At 10 a.m. on Monday, Facebook representatives -- perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself -- are expected to announce something big in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Summit. Zuckerberg i...

As I reported in this space earlier this year, a growing number of IT professionals are putting aside their apprehensions about Software as a Service and cloud computing, and investigating how they can utilize these "on-demand" solutions to address their day-to-day IT management requirements. Now, a...

Next Issue Media, a joint venture among five leading publishers, will open its digital storefront next year on Android tablets, according to an AllThingsD report. Android is a very important platform for tablets and smartphones, Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther told the publication. The consorti...