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The average size raised for an IPO (initial public offering) in 2007 was US$229 million, according to IPO Home. That translates into a market cap valuation averaging over $1 billion for companies that are going public The marketplace for IPOs has changed dramatically since 2000, when the Internet IPO frenzy imploded. Since that time, small boutique...

Just days after announcing a major mobile acquisition, Microsoft reportedly is poised to shake up the upper management of its mobile division after the group's former director departed to take a position with Vodafone Microsoft's mobile business -- which could get a significant boost if the software giant can pull off its attempted acquisition of Y...

Here I was all ready to post my thoughts on user interfaces and ease of use, when news surfaced that theSCO Group has received an investment of US$100 million to take it private. The company once claimed to own the rights to Unix and then proceeded to sue IBM and Novell for infringing its intellectual property....

It is no secret that few homes in the U.S. or, for that matter, anywhere in the world have electronic control systems At Parks Associates, we have postulated a number of different paths on which controls can ride into the home -- basic lighting, entertainment, security and energy control systems. Several firms highlighted the last one, energy contr...

HP on Wednesday reached a financial settlement with the New York Times and four reporters who were spied upon as part of a scandal dating back to 2006 that brought about the downfall of the company's chairwoman, Patricia C. Dunn, along with several high-ranking executives The reporters were BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows, Ben Elgin and Roger Crockett...

Sparks flew at the GSMA mobile telephony conference in Barcelona, Spain, as members of the LiMo and Android consortiums demonstrated their products and announced new developments LiMo, a consortium of 32 major firms, including mobile phone companies, unveiled 18 commercial handsets and several prototypes at the show....

It's not exactly Amazon.com's business model, but Borders Group appears to be at least borrowing a page from the Web-based book and music retailer by offering digital downloads Borders, the second-largest book retailer in the U.S., on Wednesday, announced it is opening the first of 14 new concept stores that it will launch this year as part of a re...

A frustrated Best Buy customer has filed a US$54 million lawsuit against the electronics retailer in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Her complaint? Best Buy lost the laptop she had brought in for repair; the tech staff was evasive about its whereabouts; and the store refused to compensate her fully for her loss The last straw for D....

Yahoo has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. about a partnership, merger or similar arrangement, according to reports. Such a deal would help fend off Microsoft's unsolicited US$44.6 billion bid to take over the portal and create an Internet force capable of rivaling Google News Corp. would offer significant benefit to Yahoo, most notably ...

A measure to extend amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for three weeks failed to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. The failure is a setback for Democrats who had been hoping for the extra time to hammer out a solution to a politically explosive issue: that is, whether and how to extend retroactive immunity to the telecom companies that cooperated with the federal government's program of eavesdropping without warrants...

Handset makers are gathering in Barcelona this week for the Mobile World Congress, a conference where the market's biggest players show you why that top-dollar phone you picked up two weeks ago will be obsolete by Labor Day Some of the biggest news coming out of the show focused on the multitude of mobile platforms emerging. Prototype devices sport...

IBM announced a host of improvements to its line of storage offerings aimed at businesses large and small The enhancements provide greater efficiency in tiered storage infrastructures that bring businesses increased cost savings, integrated data security and enhanced archival solutions, according to IBM. They're aimed at helping companies meet comp...

Microsoft needs to come up with a better offer if it hopes to win Yahoo's acceptance of its unsolicited takeover bid, Yahoo's second-largest shareholder said on Sunday "It has been reported that Microsoft has been discussing a combination with Yahoo for well over a year, and that it had been prepared to pay over (US)$40 per share previously," wrote...

Microsoft released 11 security updates to patch 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, by far its largest release in a year There were five critical and six important updates, the two highest levels issued by the software company. The patches cover a wide range of Microsoft products from Word, Publisher and the Office suite down to Microsoft Works, its Web...

Cable carrier Comcast on Wednesday defended its practice of managing Web-based traffic over its network as legal and necessary, providing new fodder for the network neutrality debate even as a lawmaker revived legislation to require that all Internet traffic be treated equally In an 80-page document filed with the Federal Communications Commission ...

Panasonic has unveiled the world's fastest SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card, with a whopping 32 GB of memory The new card, to be released April, will comply with the Class 6 speed specification of the SD Card Association, which develops and publishes technical standards for SD card technology....

Sun Microsystems is acquiring Germany-based virtualization software providerInnotek and, with it, its increasingly popular open source x86 virtualization product VirtualBox. The deal comes on the heels of Sun's recent purchase of open source database developer MySQL for US$1 billion VirtualBox, which has clocked more than 4 million downloads since ...

eBay will be introducing its new fee schedule for sellers, along with some other administrative changes, on Feb. 18. Some sellers are so incensed over what they perceive as a raw deal, they're planning to boycott the iconic online auction site from Feb. 18 through 25 Sellers have banded together to boycott eBay in the past, usually for the same rea...

Recession talk is all around us, and CRM has a role in helping any company get through the slump. How? Take our quick quiz A recession happens when:...

PostPath on Wednesday announced the release of PostPath Email Server 3.1, which offers small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) an alternative to Microsoft Exchange Email Server 3.1 is interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem as well as BlackBerry and ActiveSync devices. PostPath's e-mail and collaboration server provides enterprises an alternativ...