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Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites. In a move being billed as the auction giant's largest expansion outside its core business, eBay said it had opene...

Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce. A slew of new and upgraded technology has been ...

What will Google do next? How will Yahoo counter the move? And how will this impact MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and the scores of smaller players vying to get their share of the search engine revenue pie? Rumors abound about what will come next for major players in search. Some believe Google is preparin...

In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources. "The new Yahoo Small Business Resource Center provid...

IBM's landscape-altering sale of its personal computer business to China-based Lenovo Group has cleared an important hurdle, with the deal found not to pose a threat to national security. The US$1.75 billion sale got the green light from the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United Stat...

America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month. AOL Chief Executive Jon Miller said "it's really time" for VoIP services during his keynote address at the VON Spring 2005 conference in San Jose, Calif. Even though Miller ...

E-commerce is growing in leaps and bounds. Searching on global engines for business names based on "Web" or "Net," like WebCom, WebTech, NetSys or NetWeb, will now result in millions of matches. This signals a crisis for business name identities, corporate images and global cyber-branding. The same ...

Malicious code writers have apparently pounced on a known security vulnerability in MSN Messenger, unleashing a rash of new viruses aimed at Microsoft's instant messenger platform. The outbreak of viruses comes about three weeks after a vulnerability in the platform was published online. That brough...

Handset maker Nokia has joined with a slew of European-based partners to launch a test of a mobile television service in the Finland capital city of Helsinki. Nokia and its partners, including MTV and the Finnish national broadcasting company on the content side, as well local mobile carriers and te...

If you mention travel in Pakistan and India, Americans often think about safety. I'm in my fifth week of travel in Pakistan and recently spent three years living in India. The best safety tip for business travelers is a local cell phone with numbers added to its address book for people whom you are ...

Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse. The Westlake Village, California-based company said the settlement in ...

Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey. The Pew Internet & American Life Project said that 37 percent of the adult population of the U.S. and 61 percent of the online p...

Understanding that retailers prefer to focus on the business of selling their wares rather than becoming experts in the technological guts of an e-commerce site, Demandware recently launched an on-demand, customizable e-commerce solution designed to eliminate the technical headaches often associated...

Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices. The Web portal said the studio is already at work producing its first games for Verizon Wireless and ...

Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage. The action from the FCC came less than a month after Von...