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A strong holiday season rife with hard-to-find gifts helped push eBay to a record fourth quarter, with revenue up 29 percent and profits up 24 percent as the online auction giant soundly beat forecasts and boosted its outlook. eBay said revenue was $1.72 billion compared to $1.33 billion in sales in...

During the last quarter of 2006, Cingular Wireless' profits jumped fourfold and Sun Microsystems registered a profit for the first time in more than a year; however, Seagate Technology's earnings dropped by about 50 percent. Nevertheless, as many major tech companies report their earnings this week,...

Web portal and search engine giant Yahoo on Tuesday posted fourth quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, despite a sharp drop in profit from a year earlier, and said that its long-awaited ad placement system upgrade would roll out a month ahead of schedule. Yahoo said revenue climbed 13 pe...

After years of taking a backseat to big business, climate change has moved up the U.S. political ladder, and even Corporate America is providing ideas on ways to get the government involved. Chief executives from some of the nation's largest corporations urged Congress this week to begin setting man...

Social networking site MySpace is suing a high-profile e-mail marketer, claiming that he violated the site's rules and state and federal laws by deluging members with spam. MySpace said Tuesday it had filed a suit alleging that Scott Richter had violated the federal CAN-SPAM Act and California's ant...

Looking for a franchise opportunity? The World Wide Web is overflowing with Internet-based businesses for sale. Searching for "Internet Franchising" in your favorite search engine will reveal dozens of Web sites promising both online business and franchise opportunities in a variety of Internet-base...

Shares of major overseas Internet gambling companies took a heavy hit Monday after news broke that U.S. investigators had launch a fresh probe into Web-based gambling. The U.S. government has reportedly sent subpoenas to as many as 15 investment banks across Europe and the U.S., seeking information ...

When President Bush takes to the rostrum in the U.S. Congress Tuesday night to deliver his seventh State of the Union address, most experts anticipate that he will offer little in the way of initiatives aimed at boosting the nation's technology sector. With the ongoing war in Iraq and with so-called...

With ongoing technological and process improvements in the alternative and renewable energy sectors -- and with concerns about energy sources, supplies and environmental degradation increasingly at the forefront of social and political issues -- energy and commodities have become a focal point for b...

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

AT&T is offering customers that subscribe to both its wireless and fixed-wire services free calling between the two. Called "AT&T Unity," the service appears to be the first bundled product that combines both landline and wireless services. For that reason alone, it is a noteworthy move in w...

Motorola said Friday it would cut 3,500 jobs worldwide in coming months after turning in a disappointing profit for the fourth quarter, despite a strong surge in sales of its mobile devices. Sales for the quarter that ended in December were $11.8 billion, an increase of 17 percent over the $10 billi...

IBM posted sharply higher profits for its fourth quarter as software and services paced the technology giant, but some weakness in hardware sales led investors to sell off Big Blue shares. IBM said Friday that its net income during the period was $3.54 billion, or $2.31 per share, up 11 percent from...

In the late 1990s, a new application appeared on the World Wide Web. It allowed people from different places and different time zones the opportunity to simultaneously view a slide show, commonly PowerPoint, and to hear a speaker explain the details behind each slide. The viewers also had the opport...