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A proposed treaty that would expand the rights of broadcasters over what they deliver to consumers cleared a significant hurdle last week at a meeting of an international copyright panel. The panel -- the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organiza...

Internet stocks dropped Tuesday after Yahoo said its third-quarter financial results would lean toward the low end of its earlier guidance, sparking concerns that the Web advertising boom may be cooling and that the portal is seeing the first signs of an economic slowdown. Relatively slow ad sales i...

In a bid to extend its reach further into the enterprise marketplace, Motorola has agreed to buy Symbol Technologies in a deal worth around US$3.9 billion. Symbol's products include a range of mobile solutions for businesses, including radio frequency identification technologies such as bar-code rea...

Dell said it will invest more than US$250 million to build a new computer plant in Poland, a move meant to help the PC maker target a key emerging market in central and eastern Europe. The company said it had signed an agreement with the Polish government on Monday to build the plant in the city of ...

Want to be your own boss? Got an itch to try your hand at e-commerce but don't consider yourself a techie? Maybe you've got an eye for style, the next big fad, or just useful products. Or perhaps you have the pulse of a particular space, as well as the sales and marketing savvy to put an idea to ...

Likely seeing better opportunities to leverage the News Corp. brand across multiple channels, Rupert Murdoch is reportedly in talks with partner Liberty Media on a deal that would give him full control of News Corp. Murdoch and Liberty have traded proposals to have Liberty exchange its stake in News...

The chances that major social networking sites will face a potentially massive copyright infringement suit from at least one major record label grew this week, with talks among the various parties reportedly breaking down. YouTube and MySpace have been on notice about copyright issues for some time...

In today's ever more challenging business climate, CEOs are pressured to handle multiple tasks, each of which might be critical to the long-term success of the company. If the CEO takes his/her eye off the ball for even a short length of time, other competing tasks might go undone to the detriment ...

The office of the California Attorney General indicated it could be just days away from filing charges in connection with the investigation into media leaks conducted by former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn. In a nationally televised interview Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Lockyer indica...

Hardly a week passes without a report of consumer or company data being compromised. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer organization, more than 90 million data records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches since February ...

Michael Dell, whose namesake company has seen earnings drop, market share erode and accounting questions raised in recent months, attempted to deflect the blame from CEO Kevin Rollins, saying he too is partly to blame for the PC maker's missteps. Rollins, the former Dell COO who Michael Dell hand-pi...

With memories of ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina still fresh in the minds of many, news comes that the company's chairman, Patricia Dunn, has agreed to step down. Dunn, who climbed the corporate ladder from secretary to CEO at Barclays Global Investors after abandoning a career in journalis...

The European Commission, the regulatory arm of the European Union, said Monday that it is expanding its investigation into possible antitrust behavior on the part of leading chip maker Intel by taking over a case involving a major electronics retail chain. The EC has long been looking into complaint...

The stretch of bad news continued for PC maker Dell, with the company saying Monday it would delay the filing of its second quarter financial report amid questions about past accounting practices. Dell told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would delay the final report on its second fis...

In a dramatic escalation of efforts to crack down on Internet-based gambling, law enforcement officials in the U.S. arrested an executive from Sportingbet, a major UK-based online gaming site. The arrest marks an expansion of efforts to use law enforcement to control Internet-based wagering, and com...