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Too many executives either ignore or are unaware of corporate culture. Yet, it is absolutely critical to the success of their company. Whether you know it or not, corporate culture permeates your organization -- for good or for bad. There are actually many definitions of corporate culture, and you c...

Online auctioneer eBay this week strengthened rules to prevent fraud on its site, as cases continue to emerge of disreputable sellers misrepresenting the products they market there. One allegedly fraudulent eBay merchant was sued this week by the Missouri Attorney General, Jay Nixon, after an indivi...

New data suggest legal downloading of digital music is experiencing dramatic growth worldwide, with the number of songs legally acquired online tripling in the first six months of 2005. The report said 180 million tracks were downloaded globally between January and the end of June. The same study, c...

Continuing to use its deep pockets to beef up its security posture through targeted acquisitions, Microsoft has said it would buy enterprise e-mail security firm FrontBridge and take a stake in antivirus firm Finjan that will give it the right to purchase patented technology from that company. Micro...

IBM, in a move to bolster its presence in the electronic forms market, is expected to close a deal tomorrow to acquire developer PureEdge Solutions. Terms of the acquisition have not been made public. PureEdge, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a developer of electronic forms using open-so...

A recent survey in the United States has highlighted the growing trend of employers to electronically monitor employees in the workplace. According to the 2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey conducted by the American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute, employers ...

IBM has announced it will separate its services businesses, creating two divisions to focus on the different types of consulting and outsourcing that now make up half of Big Blue's total revenue stream. The move, announced yesterday when IBM reported strong earnings for the second quarter, comes aft...

This fight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is all about a golden key, as without it, the Internet is completely useless. That golden key is a name on the Net called a URL. It's all about the master design of a sophisticated key management system so that billions ...

In a pair of deals that could catapult mobile gaming to new heights, Electronic Arts said it will make some of its titles available on the networks of Verizon and Sprint, two of the top three wireless carriers in the United States. EA will make a range of games available within coming weeks via dire...

Venture capital investment for the Internet could be poised to return to a healthy volume not seen since the late 1990s and earlier this decade. In a sign of renewed confidence in the prospects of the consumer Internet, the founders of PayPal, based in San Francisco, and a number of other successfu...

Hewlett-Packard revealed its long-anticipated restructuring plan today, saying it would cut 14,500 jobs, freeze pensions and revamp its structure as it seeks to remake itself into a leaner enterprise better able to compete with the likes of Dell and to regain market share lost in recent years. HP sa...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 48.9 million units in the second quarter of 2005, a 14.8 percent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The PC market exceeded Gartner's previous projections by 2 percentage points. Apple Computers showed the biggest growt...

Internet search powerhouse Google garnered 37.6 percent of all U.S. search queries on the Internet in this year's second quarter, according to comScore Networks, a Net metrics service firm. That's the largest market share that Google has had in a quarter since comScore began compiling its search re...

This has been a bad couple weeks for your country, Pakistan. Every day brings more bad news. The worst indication is the drop in confidence among broad segments of the business community in Pakistan earlier this month, particularly the tech sector, which has been growing at over 50 percent per year ...

EBay is an icon for online merchandising for both private sellers and small companies. However, industry watchers warn that user dissatisfaction over increased rates and its rules could give alternative auction Web sites more market share. Rival auction sites are catering both to newcomers to online...