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It can be argued that Yahoo doesn't need to engage in a lot of executive housecleaning and downsizing during a reorganization expected this week from new CEO Carol Bartz. The turmoil at Sunnyvale over the last year has achieved that goal for her. "They've already had a pretty significant exodus of t...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest $1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas. The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006. The latest commitment is meant to add more data capacity to parts of the w...

Cable operators Time Warner and Comcast are reportedly in talks with the owners of major cable television networks to organize a plan that will bring a large amount of cable programming online and made accessible only to the providers' subscribers. The cable companies have met with Viacom, Time War...

With just two weeks remaining before the auditors arrive, the entire staff is working feverishly, checklists in hand, to review tests of controls, past audit results, known issues and compliance guidelines. Even the janitorial staff is feeling the crunch from lugging trash bags full of pizza boxes a...

The federal judge overseeing a lawsuit against Microsoft over marketing claims for its Vista operating system has reversed an earlier decision to certify the suit as a class action designation. She also denied Microsoft's motion for summary judgment. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman allowed the ca...

IBM and Internet service provider International Broadband Electric Communications announced plans Wednesday to begin deploying broadband over power line networks in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and Virginia. The two companies are establishing the BPL networks for nearly 200,000 rural residents current...

Sprint Nextel's stock jumped 27.3 percent to $3.46 per share in mid-day trading Thursday after the struggling telecom delivered a lower-than-expected churn rate. The company lost 1.3 million wireless subscribers during the quarter, but that wasn't as bad as some Wall Street analysts had expected. Sp...

We have now arrived right in the middle of that second half of the hyper-accelerated phase, where Western brands start to fall like dominoes. In the U.S. alone, hundreds of its world-class brands are being erased. From monster banking to mega manufacturing, some 73,000 stores alone will be closed in...

The gaming industry was the recipient of news both good and bad this past week. On the up side, the monthly NPD Group sales report for January indicated gaming continues to be relatively recession-resistant. Gamers also have something to cheer now that Nintendo has announced the U.S. release date fo...

Liberty Media has thrown struggling Sirius XM Radio a lifeline that will keep it from falling into bankruptcy. The owner of satellite television service DirecTV has loaned Sirius $530 million, which it will use to pay off $171.6 million in debt that came due Tuesday. The remainder of the funds will ...

Swedish prosecutors have dismissed about half the charges brought against defendants accused of copyright violations through their operation of a P2P Web site that connects users to content -- mainly music and movies -- on other users' PCs. Last year, the owners of The Pirate Bay -- a Sweden-based ...

California's Orange County is known famously worldwide as the home of Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm, John Wayne and Richard Nixon, citrus crops and beige master-planned communities, babes and beaches. But OC is also coming into its own as the hub in a Southern California green tech corridor stret...

In advertising, the focus is on getting across a clear message to consumers. The Federal Trade Commission's message to advertisers in its staff report released Thursday regarding online consumer data collection was laser-like in its clarity: Get busy with protecting privacy, or the government will d...