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Hulu is expected to file a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering by the end of the year. It reportedly believes it can raise S$200-$300 million. The final decision to move forward is expected to be made in November. If it does happen, the IPO is likel...

Research In Motion on Friday reportedly came to an agreement of sorts with the United Arab Emirates, narrowly averting a ban on its services that was due to kick in next Monday. Neither side will disclose details of just what transpired. Meanwhile, RIM faces bans or clampdowns in several other count...

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Adobe's offices to meet with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on Thursday afternoon, rumors began circulating that Microsoft was negotiating the purchase of Adobe. The meeting agenda reportedly included discussions about Apple, suggesting Ballmer wanted to talk abo...

The cost to send a letter via the U.S. mail is now at an all-time high: 44 cents. The cost of a standard postcard is 28 cents. There was a time when a postcard could be sent for 1 cent, if one can imagine that! The sad thing is that there doesn't seem to be any end in sight to the cost of snail mail...

It comes as no surprise that venerable Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer, has been on the decline in recent years, bowing under pressure from rivals like Firefox and Google Chrome. However, Web analytics firm StatCounter says while it's still the most-used browser family on Earth, fewer tha...

Twitter Cofounder Evan Williams has stepped aside as CEO and placed Dick Costolo, the man he hired as chief operating officer, in charge of the company as it works to build its business model. "I am most satisfied while pushing product direction," Williams wrote in a blog post announcing his decisio...

E-commerce security has never been more top-of-mind for retailers. Security breaches like the one that happened at TJX in 2007 reverberate not only through the media, but also -- more importantly -- through consumer confidence, for years. Even with an aggressive clean-up strategy, an attack can crea...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

In a set of coordinated investigations, federal, state and local officials filed charges this week against more than 70 defendants who allegedly used cybercrime techniques to defraud both individuals and corporations out of millions of dollars. New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., ...

The Indian government has been unable to intercept communications carried over BlackBerry devices despite an interim agreement on data sharing that kept Research In Motion's service alive after a threatened August outage, according to a report published Friday in the Economic Times, an Indian news s...

HP announced on Thursday that it has appointed former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker its new president and CEO. The company also named Ray Lane, managing partner at venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as a new member of its board of directors and named him non-executive chairperson. Bot...

In the past few months, Research In Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry, has been under pressure by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, and other countries to provide greater access to the encrypted information sent by its devices. Each country threatened to ban BlackBerr...

Congress is unlikely to pass legislation regulating the activities of broadband Internet service providers this year. And it's not clear when -- or if -- such rules will be enacted. Democratic California Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, pulled a bill...