Business

Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube and spotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue. Only after many months did other giant TV netw...

In the 2007 proxy season, public companies complied with the new Securities and Exchange Commission requirements regarding executive compensation disclosure, which provided more data about salary, bonuses, stock options, perks and long-term incentive compensation plans. Today, CFOs at U.S. technolog...

Shell has doled out some $4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure. Shell signed the master service agreements as part of a push to improve its business operations performance as a way of maximizing profitability and efficiency, it sa...

Shell has doled out some $4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure. Shell signed the master service agreements as part of a push to improve its business operations performance as a way of maximizing profitability and efficiency, it sa...

Shell has doled out some $4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure. Shell signed the master service agreements as part of a push to improve its business operations performance as a way of maximizing profitability and efficiency, it sa...

Plunging prices in a glutted memory-chip market served as a weight on semiconductor sales worldwide, although sales did increase by 1.5 percent in February, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Fueled by sales of computers and mobile phones outside the U.S., global year-on-year semic...

Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Shine will offer content licensed from publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst in nine categories, including f...

Radio giant Clear Channel Communications warned Thursday that it cannot estimate when its planned sale to a private equity consortium may be closed. The buyers, which include Bain Capital and other private equity firms, stand ready to close on the $19.5 billion deal at the end of the month as planne...

Electronic Arts' hostile takeover attempt for Take-Two Interactive continued Friday with EA's announcement that it has amended its offer for the fellow gaming publishers' investors. Included in EA's amendments to its bid is an extension of the tender offer deadline from April 11 to April 18. The cha...

The London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market has been a resounding success. There are now more than 1,689 companies on AIM -- more than on the UK's official list. The LSE promotes AIM as the most successful growth market in the world when marketing itself to international companies. Much ...

Rambus has won a patent-related trial against three semiconductor companies. The long legal battle may not be entirely finished for the technology developer, however. Put in basketball terms, Wednesday's victory was more a three-point shot with a minute remaining than a last-minute slam dunk. A jury...

Oracle's shares fell 7.2 percent Thursday on news that the company did not sell as many new licenses in its third quarter as expected. The stock closed at $19.43 per share, down from $20.94 a day earlier. Sales of new software in Q3 registered $1.6 billion, a 16 percent increase from the same quarte...

Pay a bill, save a tree. That, in essence, is the message of a study that the PayItGreen Alliance made public on Tuesday. The alliance, sponsored by the non-profit National Automated Clearinghouse Association, was formed last October to add another consumer inducement -- environmental stewardship --...

After months of battling over the extent to which Comcast was blocking user access to the P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent, the two companies have decided to work together to craft solutions to ensure full access. Comcast plans to work directly with BitTorrent and others in the Web services and I...

A few short months after their last joint venture to build a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax tanked, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are at it again. This time, they are holding talks with various partners, and reports are that they are trying to raise $3 billion for the project. The WiMax st...