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These appear to be trying times for officers and directors of publicly held companies. But are they really? Many people involved on the management and directorate level with public companies are quite leery nowadays. But should those of us involved with corporate boards and corporate governance be a...

Following competitors' footsteps on a path that promises to obliterate the line between what once were standalone devices, Sony Ericsson said it plans to launch a line of phones under the Walkman brand that are much a portable music player as a phone handset. The devices are just the latest to take ...

Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista to try to gather e-mail addresses to send itself to. The original version of th...

In recent months, the pharmaceutical industry has stepped up its fight against online pharmacies on three fronts: First, it is strongly lobbying governments on all sides including those of the U.S. and Canada; second, it is teaming up with companies in other industries to mount indirect campaigns ag...

IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent company of Expedia, the Home Shopping Network and Hotels.com, posted a quarterly loss today. IAC said operating income before amortization was strong at Home Shopping Network, but its travel business made only slight increases. IAC recently announced plans to split in...

The end result of approval of the recent spate of telecom mergers might be a sharp reduction in the choice that both consumers and businesses have to access the Internet. This is the point that some industry and consumer groups are planning to argue to regulators. While there are varying arguments a...

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to slow in 2005 as the latest replacement cycle ebbs, Gartner says. However, the research firm still predicts 9 percent growth as compared to last year. Gartner expects shipments of mobile PCs, such as laptops, to drive market growth by increasing 17.4 percent in ...

E-commerce -- recently created by the Internet and Web sites -- is now a fully matured mammoth and has connected with a few big punches in the first round of fights between the old and new economy. What once had been just a simple information page for a business on the Internet is now, in a majority...

Sparked by growth in its European operations, Yahoo announced today it will open a European operations headquarters in Ireland to provide support to its main European headquarters in London. Yahoo plans create almost 400 new jobs in the Dublin office over the next five years. The Irish operation wil...

Major League Baseball's Internet unit said it has reached a deal to acquire e-tailer Tickets.com for US$66 million, a move that offers the league more opportunities to sell directly to its fan base. MLB Advanced Media said it would pay $1.10 each for all of the outstanding shares of Tickets.com, whi...

Vonage Holdings, one of the fastest-growing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling firms in the United States, has complained to federal regulators that data traffic carrying its low-cost telephone calls is being blocked by some broadband networks, apparently those managed by local telephone co...

EBay, Microsoft, PayPal and Visa are hooking up to catch some phishing fraudsters. The high-tech heavyweights yesterday became the first participants in a new anti-phishing aggregation service dubbed the Phish Report Network and organized by WholeSecurity, an Austin, Texas-based company that screens...

Megacities with populations larger than entire countries are changing the physical and economic landscape of the globe. Megacities have economic engines that are powering the future of the world. Megacities have larger markets than many developed countries. The megacities are coming. They are the fu...

Monster Worldwide, parent company of the leading online career site in the U.S., said it would buy France-based Emailjob.com for US$26 million. Emailjob.com, which was founded in 1998, was owned by the French division of worldwide trade show giant and business publisher Reed Elsevier Group, which is...

Hewlett-Packard has announced antivirus software aimed at controlling the spread of viruses across corporate networks in an apparent bid to boost its server sales. The company also announced that HP Labs is collaborating with two prominent partners to test new damage-containment security software ai...