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Negotiations have broken down between Texas Instruments and Korean chipmaker-for-hire Dongbu Electronics, dashing Dongbu's hopes of landing a $400 million annual contract with the technology giant. If Dongbu and Texas Instruments had reached an agreement, Dongbu would have been able to embrace...

Microsoft has stepped up what promises to be an interesting battle with AOL by planning to offer its MSN subscription service to users of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The announcement comes shortly after AOL opted to use Netscape browser technology, rather than Internet Explorer, in its new...

PayPal has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to stop taking betting payments from New York residents by the end of the month as part of an agreement reached with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer said the fine represents "disgorged profits" that PayPal made from processing gaming paym...

As online retailing enters the early stages of maturity and profitability becomes the rule rather than the exception, e-businesses might find they need only reset their goals rather than alter their entire approach. "A lot of what e-tailers were trying to do, in terms of customer attraction and r...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

AOL Time Warner has inked a deal that calls for AT&T and Comcast to relinquish their minority interest in its Time Warner Entertainment division for as much as $9 billion, according to published reports. The agreement paves the way for a possible IPO of AOL's cable arm in 2003, and ends specu...

Hotels.com's offices were evacuated and its stock suffered a sharp drop after a white powdery substance was discovered in the company's mailroom. Local authorities in McAllen, Texas, ordered the evacuation of the Hotels.com processing center -- where about 100 people process reservations made thr...

Few things are more gratifying for fans of e-commerce than seeing a traditional company -- especially a muscular, dominant company -- break into a cold sweat over the possibilities of online retail. That is why so many people should be feeling good about Netflix, which is threatening to do to Blo...

Just as MTV changed the face of music, technology has resculpted the public relations landscape. For example, technology allows remote team members to share documents instantly, but e-mail use can result in miscommunication. "If you are in meetings for an entire morning, you will not be able to l...

The U.S. Government Accounting Office has determined that states are losing out on millions of dollars in unpaid excise taxes because of online cigarette sales. This comes after the Federal Trade Commission got wise a few weeks ago that the government might be able to do more to grease the works ...

Cisco Systems has announced an agreement to acquire privately held Andiamo Systems, which develops intelligent storage switching products for the storage area networking (SAN) market. This is the latest in a string of acquisitions by the networking giant, and it marks Cisco's first foray into the...

EBay and PayPal have announced that their antitrust waiting period -- a time during which the U.S. Department of Justice can ask for additional information from either company -- has expired without government regulators making a second request for more information. That so-called "second request...

As competition heated up during the summer, both the travel and computer hardware sectors saw an uptick in online sales, according to the comScore Media Metrix U.S. Top 50 Internet report for July. Overall, online consumer sales increased to $6 billion, a 26 percent jump from a year ago. The 50 s...

With consumer confidence beginning to ebb, brick-and-mortar stores are implementing new strategies designed to lure consumers across their thresholds. But retailers trying to balance an actual store with an online presence must employ an array of tactics to prevent cannibalization. Fortunately, s...