Deals

AOL has reached a deal to purchase affiliate marketing network Buy.at in an effort to expand its online advertising platform. Buy.at, which operates affiliate networks in the U.S. and the UK, will become part of AOL's New York-based Advertising.com and Platform A online marketing organizations. The ...

The online video distribution sweepstakes gained another entrant Monday, with Cablevision throwing its resources behind a joint venture with Popcorn that will offer movie downloads the same day they are released on DVD. The service will enable subscribers to Cablevision's iO TV digital cable service...

As Yahoo continues to overhaul the focus of its music business, the company will migrate its online music subscription customers in the coming months to Rhapsody America. Yahoo will shut down its Music Unlimited service and divert subscribers to Rhapsody, a digital music venture of MTV Networks and ...

Seeking to reshape the online landscape and create a serious challenger to Google with a single bold stroke, Microsoft has made a $44.6 billion unsolicited bid to buy struggling portal Yahoo. The offer -- shareholders can choose either cash or the equivalent amount of Microsoft stock -- valued Yahoo...

Amazon.com doubled its fourth-quarter profit as international sales fueled growth, but the e-tailer's outlook raised questions about its continued reliance on discounting as it expands into new markets and product categories. The company met analyst expectations for fourth quarter earnings with net ...

eBay's PayPal unit will acquire the software firm Fraud Sciences for $170 million. The move could help boost confidence in the online payment industry and in the parent company's online auctions. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and founded by former members of Israel's intelligence agency, Fraud Sciences...

Not to be bested by the likes of Apple and Motorola, Dell and Microsoft are joining forces to create (Product) Red PCs that will help African women and children with HIV/AIDS. The PCs will be crimson versions of Dell's XPS One line running Microsoft Windows Vista, and as much as $80 of the purchase ...

European approval of Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick may be in doubt as privacy hearings held by the European Commission get underway. The hearings are focusing on whether Internet protocol, or IP, addresses should be considered personally identifiable information. The risk to the p...

Sanyo has traded off a little in a crowded mobile technology field to gain a lot in its core business, with the sale of its lagging mobile phone operations to Kyocera. The two electronics firms announced the deal -- potentially worth $472.3 million -- on Monday, with Sanyo transferring its $375 mill...

Amazon.com will start selling songs from the massive library of Sony BMG in a format free of restrictions on copying and playback -- a major victory for the e-tailer's fledging music store and another sign that digital rights management controls on premium digital music may soon be a thing of the pa...

Have you been unsuccessful in raising capital for your company? Certainly, depending on the profitability of and prospects for a company, raising capital can be a difficult challenge. However, some industries find it easier to raise capital than others. Much of it depends on which industries are in ...

More than a decade after they first rushed to search for exit-strategy gold in the e-commerce niche, venture investors are still finding plenty of early and mid-stage companies to back in the space. Often, however, the deals are more modest in size than they were when the dot-com bubble was building...

Microsoft is moving to buy Norway-based enterprise search specialist Fast Search and Transfer for $1.2 billion, a purchase that would instantly grow the software giant's business search footprint. Redmond is offered Fast shareholders about $3.50 per share, a 42 percent premium to the company's tradi...

If you lived under a rock throughout 2007 and recently surfaced to catch up on technology news, you likely will not recognize Google. Sure, the company still dominates the search market, its logo looks the same, and it continues to offer Gmail and other Web-based products. However, the "don't-be-evi...

Media chain Landmark Communications announced Thursday that it is investigating the possible sale of its businesses, including the Weather Channel and Weather.com. Landmark has retained investment banks J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers to assist in exploring strategic alternatives, the company said.