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Hewlett-Packard said Monday longtime Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Bob Wayman will retire at the end of the year, cutting another tie from the original HP. Wayman, 61, first joined HP in 1969, serving first as an accountant before making his way up the ranks. He's held the CFO title sin...

For many online merchants, the holidays account for almost half their yearly sales. Small and medium-sized online merchants have a prime opportunity this gift-giving season to attract new customers and keep them coming back throughout the year. From browsing to buying, the Internet will play a large...

In a settlement that could lead to new standards for corporate ethics, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday agreed to finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights. As part of the US$14.5 million settlement, HP will also adopt corporate governance reforms....

Oracle said Thursday it was increasing its offer and boosting the number of shares it will buy of India-based banking software firm i-flex as the database and applications giant tries to convince more of the firm's shareholders to sell. The company said it would increase the number of i-flex shares ...

Continuing technological advances allow companies to store increasing amounts of personal data about their customers. Maintaining this information can help both companies and consumers, allowing for more tailored customer service without requiring customers to provide the same information repeatedly...

Cisco on Wednesday announced it is on course with its US$1.1 billion investment in India -- and added it's expanding its commitment there. The company expects to triple its workforce in India over the next three to five years. Cisco first established operations in India in 1995 and today employs ove...

Yahoo said Tuesday it would undertake a major corporate restructuring aimed at capturing more of the growth in online advertising, with two top executives leaving the company and a third taking on an expanded role. Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker will leave that post to become head of the newly...

The chip-making industry appears to be entering a period of consolidation, with a series of deals announced Monday suggesting firms are seeking to expand their technology portfolios and reduce costs by merging with onetime rivals. The largest of the deals calls for LSI Logic to purchase rival storag...

Qualcomm said Monday it had acquired Airgo Networks, a leading maker of next-generation WiFi tools, and purchased most of the Bluetooth chip interests of RF Micro Devices. Qualcomm did not disclose the purchase price it paid for privately held Airgo, whose technology is being built into many noteboo...

Following on the phenomenal success of Apple's iPod, there is a second wave of companies looking to ride the digital music and media convergence waves -- assembling a mix of music artists, private label "indie" music producers, and the giants of the PC and consumer electronics industries. It is too ...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets. Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators f...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading. The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously a...

Intuit, which makes financial management software popular among small businesses and consumers, said Thursday it had agreed to buy Digital Insight, a provider of Web-based banking services, in a deal worth US$1.35 billion. Intuit agreed to pay $39 per share in cash for the Calabasas, Calif.-based fi...

In a setback to Google's efforts to fend off a copyright infringement suit stemming from its ambitious plan to create digital copies of millions of books, rival search engine Yahoo has declined to provide information about its own book digitization efforts. Neither Yahoo nor Google would comment, bu...

From the apparently sudden arrival of Web-based video distribution options to the growing sophistication of TV-like advertising online and the social networking phenomenon, the Internet drew attention and dollars away from newspapers, TV and radio in 2006. This coming of age did not take place overn...