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The chip-making industry appears to be entering a period of consolidation, with a series of deals announced Monday suggesting firms are seeking to expand their technology portfolios and reduce costs by merging with onetime rivals. The largest of the deals calls for LSI Logic to purchase rival storag...

Afternic, the leading U.S.-based domain name reseller, has been purchased by NameMedia in a deal announced on Nov. 28. The acquisition is significant because of the traffic generated from the 1.8 million domain names listed for sale on Afternic's marketplace. The full terms of Afternic's sale have...

For all the hoopla over search engine marketing, there is another method that could dramatically increase conversion rates for e-commerce players: site search. Site search can be as much as three times more likely to convert site visitors to buyers, according to a WebSideStory study. Last year, site...

Qualcomm said Monday it had acquired Airgo Networks, a leading maker of next-generation WiFi tools, and purchased most of the Bluetooth chip interests of RF Micro Devices. Qualcomm did not disclose the purchase price it paid for privately held Airgo, whose technology is being built into many noteboo...

In a bid to grab market share in a growing specialty area, Ask.com launched a revamped local search offering Monday, saying it was the first to offer intuitive search for finding neighborhood businesses along with bundled tools such as mapping and extensive, locally focused content. With AskCity, IA...

Following on the phenomenal success of Apple's iPod, there is a second wave of companies looking to ride the digital music and media convergence waves -- assembling a mix of music artists, private label "indie" music producers, and the giants of the PC and consumer electronics industries. It is too ...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets. Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators f...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading. The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously a...

More than a third of shoppers who have a poor experience on a Web site abandon the site entirely, according to JupiterResearch, and 75 percent are likely not to shop on that site again. That's a loud and clear wake up call to e-tailers. Now that you are awake, it's time to find out exactly what "poo...

Intuit, which makes financial management software popular among small businesses and consumers, said Thursday it had agreed to buy Digital Insight, a provider of Web-based banking services, in a deal worth US$1.35 billion. Intuit agreed to pay $39 per share in cash for the Calabasas, Calif.-based fi...

In a setback to Google's efforts to fend off a copyright infringement suit stemming from its ambitious plan to create digital copies of millions of books, rival search engine Yahoo has declined to provide information about its own book digitization efforts. Neither Yahoo nor Google would comment, bu...

From the apparently sudden arrival of Web-based video distribution options to the growing sophistication of TV-like advertising online and the social networking phenomenon, the Internet drew attention and dollars away from newspapers, TV and radio in 2006. This coming of age did not take place overn...

Microsoft lost a key ruling this week in the South Korean Supreme Court, which upheld a finding that the company infringed on Korean-English translation software patents held by a local inventor. The plaintiffs -- the academic who invented the language-switching process and the company representing ...

Wal-Mart said Tuesday it would launch a downloadable video service, a move that could hasten the demise of the traditional DVD and help catapult the retailer into the center of the video-on-demand marketplace. The discount retail giant unveiled plans to launch a download-on-demand test in February 2...

Spending on online video advertising will soar throughout this decade with sales predicted to break the billion dollar barrier in 2008, according to a report released this month by research aggregator eMarketer. This year outlays for Net video ads grew more than 82 percent over 2005, to some US$410...