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Follow a mail carrier around sometime; provided you don't get arrested for stalking a civil service worker, you'll likely notice a proliferation of bright-red Netflix envelopes containing the latest DVDs being shoved into mailboxes. But a statement by a company executive in New York Wednesday may si...

It was another mixed bag of news for the gaming industry over the past week. Financial papers filed with the Internal Revenue Service revealed that while 2007 and 2008 were strong years for the U.S. gaming industry, the Entertainment Software Association, the industry's trade association, did not fa...

CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts on Tuesday that Microsoft has no intention of making any more job cuts despite the recession's effects on the technology industry. The Street did not respond to the news favorably. Microsoft stock hit an 11-year low. Ballmer also talked about the impending...

Google and Mozilla have formalized their support for the European Union's current antitrust proceedings against Microsoft by acquiring third-party status in the proceedings. They join several other firms that have also entered the fray. The EU is investigating whether Microsoft is violating its anti...

In a time of economic crisis, there tends to be an increase in the number of people that turn to criminal activity. Although petty crime is usually one area that shows a significant upswing, an additional form of criminal activity on the rise is fraud. Before you can stop fraud, you need to know how...

Struggling mobile phone maker Motorola announced Tuesday that it will sell Good Technology -- its "push" email, calendar and contacts unit -- to Visto. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close at the end of the month, were not disclosed. The sale comes just a little more than two years after Mo...

Yahoo is fine-tuning its online advertising platform with the launch of three new targeting tools: Search Retargeting, which targets display advertising based on user search activities; Enhanced Retargeting, which delivers display ads across the Yahoo network based on user activity on an advertiser'...

Shrinking client pools, lack of access to credit and competition from offshore destinations are squeezing some business process outsourcing service providers in the United States. With declining revenues come cheaper valuations. This creates opportunities for other entrepreneurs seeking to expand th...

It can be argued that Yahoo doesn't need to engage in a lot of executive housecleaning and downsizing during a reorganization expected this week from new CEO Carol Bartz. The turmoil at Sunnyvale over the last year has achieved that goal for her. "They've already had a pretty significant exodus of t...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

Cable operators Time Warner and Comcast are reportedly in talks with the owners of major cable television networks to organize a plan that will bring a large amount of cable programming online and made accessible only to the providers' subscribers. The cable companies have met with Viacom, Time War...

Beleaguered Internet search portal Yahoo has launched a new type of online ad that incorporates traditional search results with images and video. Here's an example: Go to Yahoo, type in the keyword "pedigree," and a sponsored search result for Pedigree dog food will come up accompanied by a video ad...

With just two weeks remaining before the auditors arrive, the entire staff is working feverishly, checklists in hand, to review tests of controls, past audit results, known issues and compliance guidelines. Even the janitorial staff is feeling the crunch from lugging trash bags full of pizza boxes a...