Business

Many entrepreneurs think that it is not possible to bring a smaller company public. They feel that a company needs to have a long track record, as well as show a profit. Actually, neither is a prerequisite to bringing a company public. Smaller companies that have achieved some level of profitability...

Cisco's first-quarter revenue rose 17 percent and profit jumped 37 percent, but the networking gear maker's shares took a beating after it failed to provide a more upbeat forecast. The company earned $2.21 billion, or 35 cents per share, for its first quarter, and revenue climbed to $9.55 billion. T...

As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small and medium-size businesses jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process them across borders very easily at low cost. For SMBs in the U.S., curren...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AOL will buy the content-targeted advertising specialist Quigo, signaling that an aggressive spending spree meant to make it more of a player in the Internet advertising marketplace may be coming to a close. AOL parent company Time Warner said it had reached a deal to buy the New York-based firm for...

The holiday season may still be more than a month away, but you can be sure marketers and retailers already have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Consumers are expected to spend roughly $48 billion on consumer electronics in the fourth quarter, for example, and almost half of that -- $...

At a hearing before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan were forced to defend Yahoo's testimony last year regarding its role in the Chinese government's arrest and jailing of journalist Shi Tao. The executives were called on ...

Seeking to unlock value from a years-long acquisition spree, IAC/Interactive said Monday it will split into five publicly traded companies, leaving the Ask.com search engine as the core IAC holding, along with other Internet interests. IAC's board has approved a plan to spin off four new companies: ...

Considering putting an e-mail disclaimer at the end of the e-mail that says, in effect, "Hey, don't read this!" is every bit as effective as a park flasher telling you not to look -- how much protection does that overly verbose threat actually carry? "The e-mail disclaimer is more of a back-up plan ...

Ottawa, Canada-based Wi-Lan has filed two separate infringement suits against 22 chip suppliers, equipment vendors and electronics retailers. The targeted companies include Acer, Apple, Atheros, Belkin, Best Buy, Broadcom, Buffalo Technology, Circuit City, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Inf...

CreditCards.com, a Web-based distributor of credit cards to consumers, hopes to raise as much as $185 million through an initial public offering, the company said Friday. The Austin, Texas-based firm still does not have a firm date for its offering, first announced in August, but in a filing with th...

As the Federal Trade Commission geared up for its Town Hall meeting at the end of this week focusing on electronic behavioral marketing techniques, privacy advocates banded together to urge the agency to give consumers a way to opt out. Specifically, nine privacy organizations have requested that th...

Viacom, which has invested heavily to expand its footprint on the Web, said its "Transformers" movie franchise and the sale of its music publishing business helped it record an 80 percent jump in third-quarter earnings. Viacom earned $641.6 million, up 80 percent when compared with $356.8 million a ...