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This article will focus on how Europe is handling SOX compliance for their companies whose shares are listed in the United States. Briefly stated, Europe is pretty far behind the U.S. in compliance and it looks as though they might never fully comply with the law in its present form. By now, most of...

In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product. The search giant formally launched Google Local today and said it will use its search technology to return more results with Web sites that off...

Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume. A report from Gartner says that a surge of sales in the fourth quarter, when sales jumped 24 percent, h...

State regulation of e-commerce is currently seeking new territory in the online dating industry. Online dating services are a lucrative and rapidly growing industry that continues to draw concerns about the manner in which its members conduct themselves. An increasing number of U.S. states have resp...

TiVo announced today it has been awarded eight new patents in the U.S. and abroad, with five awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that, the company said, cover important aspects of DVD software and hardware design. TiVo also received three grants from the Chinese and Japanese pat...

Capitulating to pressure from some shareholders, MCI today said it would hold face-to-face talks with would-be buyer Qwest Communications International, which has offered to pay US$8 billion in cash and stock for the long-distance firm. MCI, whose board has already given the nod to a bid from Verizo...

Contrary to branding beliefs, customers are completely oblivious to a corporation's image being tied to a specific color. In fact, trying to use a color for corporate identity can actually lead to trouble. For example, Orange Mobility, a British mobile phone company of France Telecom, is one of the ...

Revisiting a time-tested strategy of growing through acquisition and working to diversify its holdings, IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it would buy catalog and e-commerce concern Cornerstone Brands in a deal worth around US$720 million. Cornerstone publishes a host of consumer products specialty catalogs...

The Firefox browser from the Mozilla Foundation has continued to gain market share and erode the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but there are signs the juggernaut might be losing steam. WebSideStory said Firefox now holds about 5.7 percent of the browser market. IE's share fell below 90...

As the Search Engine Strategies Conference gets rolling in New York this week, Yahoo announced this morning a pair of significant moves: The company is launching a developer network for programmers and has plans for a rebranding strategy for its Overture unit. The Yahoo Search Developer Network is ...

Can you describe the three principal business models used by software firms? Before you invest in a software firm, buy products from one, or decide to work for one, look at their business model. In this industry overview, we adopt a case study approach to incorporate data from NetSol Technologies. T...

America Online has launched a new feature enabling users of its wildly popular AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) platform to use the contact list feature of the service in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program. The feature will enable Outlook users to cross-reference addresses and names in their e-mail add...

Amid internal turmoil and with a takeover bid looming, No. 2 electronics retailer Circuit City said it would end its four-year-old partnership with Amazon.com and handle its e-commerce itself. Circuit City hinted that the Amazon partnership, under which Circuit City items were listed for sale throug...

E-commerce continues to grow dramatically in spite of security threats, recent research indicates. E-commerce dollar volume in 2004 rose 88 percent and transaction volume grew by 39 percent over the previous year, according to VeriSign's latest Internet Security Intelligence Briefing. The VeriSign r...

It plays in two of the most competitive markets -- technology and online merchandising -- but HPshopping.com continues to garner accolades from industry groups. Most recently, the e-commerce site was the sole computer manufacturer and marketer to place in the top 10 of the seventh annual Mystery Sho...