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Shares of HP moved up Tuesday -- while most tech stocks were down -- after the company posted strong results. The message boards were upbeat on CEO Leo Apotheker's first earnings call. The drama of Larry Ellison's attempt to subpoena Apotheker for the Oracle vs. SAP trial seems to have left little d...

The New Zealand High Court recently ruled that a former cricketer accused of match-fixing over Twitter can pursue his Twitter libel case. Lalit Modi, a cricketing administrator, took to Twitter to accuse Chris Cairns, a former cricketer, of match-fixing on Twitter. Cairns in turn filed a lawsuit, cl...

Media conglomerate News Corp. is working to create a daily news publication intended for distribution only on iPad devices, according to reports. To be called "The Daily," the iNewspaper will apparently be launched next year. It reportedly won't have any links to or from other websites. Subscription...

The Apple iTunes App Store has generated revenue of more than $400 million revenue since its launch, according to analyst firm Piper Jaffray. Aside from being a successful online e-commerce solution for customers, the App Store has spurred tremendous innovation by Apple's development partners, which...

Memo to Larry Ellison: The Roman Coliseum halted gladiator combats around 435 A.D. SAP has thrown in the towel and has no interest in continuing a court battle. HP executives are refusing to accept service on your subpoenas, and HP's newly named chief executive Leo Apotheker is lying low, presumably...

Verizon is reportedly toying with a model for tiered pricing for wireless customers who use its upcoming fourth-generation LTE cellular network, considering ways to charge customers differently for different data speeds as well as different monthly data limits. Company CFO Fran Shammo told The Wall ...

Verizon has shown solid growth in recent years, but there could be signs of weakness in its quarterly numbers. I saw this a few months ago and decided to keep my eye on it. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe this is nothing. Maybe it is a temporary blip that won't keep repeating itself -- but something doesn't...

EMC announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Isilon Systems, a "big-data" company, for $2.25 billion in cash. EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci noted that EMC decided to buy Isilon to take advantage of the waves of cloud computing and big data that are expected over the coming decade. Isilon is a majo...

Rumors have been flying wildly since Facebook sent out a press invitation for an announcement Nov. 15 in San Francisco. At 10 a.m. on Monday, Facebook representatives -- perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself -- are expected to announce something big in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Summit. Zuckerberg i...

Next Issue Media, a joint venture among five leading publishers, will open its digital storefront next year on Android tablets, according to an AllThingsD report. Android is a very important platform for tablets and smartphones, Next Issue Media CEO Morgan Guenther told the publication. The consorti...

Although Cisco Systems delivered a good first quarter earnings report on Wednesday afternoon, the guidance delivered by CEO John Chambers for the coming quarters sent the stock markets spinning downward on Thursday. In a conference call Wednesday, Chambers said Cisco expected revenue growth of 3 per...

According to the Small Business Administration, fewer than 30 percent of startups are still in business after 10 years. This is a pretty startling failure rate -- over 70 percent. Let's take a look at some of the causes of startup failure and what can be done to improve your chances of making your n...

We have watched Clearwire build its 4G wireless Internet service from scratch over the last few years. It has successfully won a few million customers and has looked like one of the hot new companies and technologies. But now it is suddenly struggling with the enormous investment costs and is thrott...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in AT&T v. Concepcion -- a case that could decide whether the arbitration clauses companies routinely insert in sales contracts can ban class actions. The case stems from a suit brought by Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who signed up for cellphone service ...

Internet privacy seems to be constantly in the headlines globally, and social media communications are clearly driving most of these privacy concerns. Since law is the glue that hold societies together, all people on Earth rely on various laws, whether they drive their cars in traffic, pay taxes, es...