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Bidding to turn the widget phenomenon it helped nurture into a revenue producer and convince users and publishers to share ads with each other, Google announced Wednesday it would expand a test of highly interactive ads that run within the Web site plug-ins. Google Gadget Ads is being tested with a ...

The whipping that lenders have taken in the subprime mortgage market could prove beneficial to the nation's technology sector, according to a venture capitalist turned professor. Howard Anderson, a founder of the Yankee Group, as well as two venture capital companies, and now a professor at the Sloa...

Just two months after venture capital firm Bay Partners launched a fund for Facebook developers, Facebook itself and two of its backers have done much the same thing with a new, $10 million program. Dubbed the "fbFund," the program aims to create continuing incentives for the development of Facebook...

In a move that could reignite the e-mail wars among major Web players, Yahoo said Monday it will buy open source e-mail firm Zimbra for $350 million -- the third splashy purchase made since cofounder Jerry Yang took over as CEO in June and promised to return Yahoo to its roots. Yahoo said Zimbra's e...

No. 1 handset maker Nokia said Monday it will buy Enpocket, a startup that focuses on creating and delivering targeted brand advertising to mobile phones. Finland-based Nokia did not disclose the purchase price it paid for the privately held firm, but said it will be use the acquisition to "accelera...

After seeing its fortunes rise and then tumble as an Internet access provider, AOL, a division of Time-Warner, announced a series of changes the company hopes will make it a contender in the ever-expanding online advertising market. The new enterprise, named "Platform A," will be accompanied by a ch...

T-Mobile USA plans to acquire cellular company SunCom Wireless Holdings for $1.6 billion in cash and assume SunCom's net debt of $800 million, the companies announced Monday. The acquisition will extend T-Mobile's network coverage in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean through the addit...

A European court upheld the European Union's sweeping antitrust ruling and the penalties against Microsoft, saying regulators acted within their authority when they issued a record-setting fine, forced Microsoft to produce a new version of Windows and required the software giant to share how its ser...

Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future where anyone can work from anywhere, using whatever communication device they have at their disposal. This type of world is not hard for us to imagine. After all, many professionals are finding that they have less and less need to be in an office to get ...

Enigmatic artist Prince says the Internet has allowed third parties to steal his works and may sue sites such as YouTube that benefit from the unauthorized use of his music. The bone of contention with the artist who once changed his name to a symbol is unreliable or insufficient filtering of conten...

Verizon Wireless is suing the Federal Communications Commission, asking a court to overturn the agency's rules that require the winner of an upcoming wireless spectrum auction to ensure at least part of that spectrum remains compatible with all mobile devices and services. Verizon Wireless filed the...

There is a great deal of talk today about our carbon footprint -- referring to greenhouse gas emissions caused by industry and/or consumers -- and how critical it is to our planet to reduce these emissions. Companies such as General Electric have begun to fully realize that reducing our carbon footp...

Looking to stake a claim in the emerging mobile commerce marketplace, Sprint on Thursday launched a tool for its wireless subscribers to enable them to use their handsets to buy from a host of online retailers. Sprint said it was partnering with mShopper to become the first U.S. wireless carrier to ...

A U.S. appeals court has granted Qualcomm and a group of handset makers that use its chips a reprieve from a ban on the import of mobile phones containing technology found to have infringed on patents held by rival Broadcom. Qualcomm announced late Wednesday that it had received a stay of the Intern...

As Internet applications grow more complex and versatile, end users' experiences get more colorful and interesting. However, rich Internet applications also place a far greater performance demand on Internet browsers, which have to orchestrate the expanding variety of Internet elements and objects.