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Major changes may be in store for Hulu that will loosen up the exclusivity of content on the online video site and pour more ads into the mix, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by Variety. The document discusses the possibility that in September, Hulu owners Comcast, News Corp. and Disney may buy out Providence Equity Partners, t...

Best Buy has named Hubert Joly the company's new CEO, the electronics mega-retailer announced Monday The struggling chain, which faces growing competition from online and discount retailers, said it chose Joly for his expertise in turnaround and growth....

Jeff Hasen, Hipcricket's CMO, recently had what he called his "10 millionth" bad customer experience with Comcast. It's galling enough to be treated poorly by a company when you buy just about all of its services, as Hasen does with Comcast. Worse, though, is when you are a mobile CRM expert, as Hasen is, and can so plainly see how easy it would b...

Most cars nowadays come with driver and passenger airbags. It's a great safety feature that's helped save numerous lives since installing them routinely has become the norm. But sometimes, though it is rare, airbags fail to deploy even when circumstances arise where they should. Ask yourself: How would you know the difference between an airbag that works compared to one that doesn't? The "airbag" light may be on, everything might appear to be working, but do you actually have any hard evidence that the system works? Short of actually crashing the car to test it, the answer is probably no...

The future of the cloud-based OnLive gaming service is looking cloudyindeed. On Monday the company confirmed that a restructuring plan willkeep the streaming video game service operating. However, all staff memberswere let go in the process -- although some may eventually be rehired This followed the company's filing last week of an Assignment forB...

Synaptics on Monday announced what it describes as the next generation of PC touchpads, its ForcePad ForcePad Animation from Synaptics, Inc. on Vimeo....

Oracle has released information regarding financial relationships it had with bloggers following a court order that demanded it and Google to disclose their ties with commentators reporting on their recent patent dispute. Google, however, maintained it never paid any individuals to write about its intellectual property battles.

A memo circulating internally at HP tells of a new mobile initiative being plotted by the computer maker The memo was penned by Todd Bradley, who is in charge of the company's recently merged Printing and Personal Systems Group. The company is creating a new Mobility business unit responsible for "consumer tablets" and "additional segments and cate...

The tech industry is making strides in developing supply chains and products that are free of conflict minerals from eastern Congo, although for some companies, progress still needs to be made, according to a report by Enough, the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity. For the second year, it ranked companies according to their perf...

A well-known iOS hacker who uses the handle "pod2g" revealed a flaw in Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, that he says can be exploited to alter the "reply to" information in SMS messages Such a tactic could be used by cybermiscreants to pry sensitive information from the recipient of a message or divert them to a malicious website....

VerticalResponse recently launched its social platform with two new features: Coupons and Clipper Coupons lets businesses generate custom coupons that can be published as a Facebook tab on their Facebook page or as a standalone Web page. Clipper is a browser button that lets users save interesting Web pages to their VerticalResponse Social account;...

In Silicon Valley where Apple is located, burglaries are up more than 30 percent, largely because police havestopped responding to them. If you are reasonably well off, particularly if you are Asian, and you likenice stuff, the chance you'll get burglarized near Apple's new headquarters is approaching 50 percent odds. If things continue, it will be virtually certain by the end of the decade.

In today's economy, there are many tools designed for sustaining small and mid-sized businesses, such as services that host websites and programs for designing logos. Web conferencing -- any service that allows virtual meetings between remote locations over the Internet -- is a tool that an increasing number of companies find veryuseful. Over the ...

Yet another malware attack has emerged in the Middle East. Called "Shamoon," it's hit computers in Saudi Aramco's network, causing a sudden disruption The specific malware delivered is being referred to as "W32.Disttrack" by Symantec. The attack as a whole was named "Shamoon" after the title of a folder found within the malware executable.

While Twitter restricts users to just 140 characters in a single tweet, its developers are limited to just three characters -- namely its "API" -- and it's cracking down on that. Twitter announced Friday that it will further restrict developer access to its API -- discouraging services that tend to replicate the Twitter experience, among other things...

Shoppers and merchants hoping to buy and sell supernatural and occult items will have to head somewhere other than eBay starting Aug. 30, when the online auction site will enact a ban on selling such things as magic spells and potions. eBay updated its fall seller's guide this week. Among the newly banned items are "advice, spells, curses, hexing,...

By now Facebook must rue the day it went public -- or at least rue its initial offering price of US$38 per share. On Thursday, the company's stock closed at $19.88, after hitting a low of $19.69. Early Friday, it hit a new low of $19.01 -- half its IPO value, plus a penny. By mid-day, it had recovered slightly to $19.14. From the first hour of it...

The United States Department of Justice approved Verizon's US$3.6 billion bid for additional spectrum, albeit with changes mandated by antitrust regulators to ensure the deal won't lead to diminished competition, lower-quality products or higher consumer costs. Verizon Wireless will be allowed to pay Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications ...

A few years ago, Dave Getty and his wife went on a road trip through Texas. They didn't bring a laptop, so they relied solely on their smartphones to surf the Web. They quickly realized how important it is for sites to be mobile-friendly. "It was an eye-opening experience," Getty, a spokesperson for One World Hosting, told the E-Commerce Times.

Zoho has been speedily turning out applications to complement its core platform. Earlier this spring, for instance, it introduced Zoho CRM. Now, it is rolling out Zoho Marketing Campaigns to buttress the marketing functionality it introduced in the CRM app "We had marketing and campaign features in that app, but the functionality wasn't deep enough...