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Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire an agent-less IT security compliance software company in a US$209 million all-cash transaction. Symantec said the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation would allow it to offer customers an end-to-end solution for p...

Yahoo has put its money behind a team effort to bulk up the amount of valuable content available on the Web. The search engine company will foster the Open Content Alliance, a consortium set up to digitize materials in the public domain, such as classic books, and those published under the less-rest...

United Kingdom-based music act managers are seeking to pressure Apple on royalty payments, saying too little of the proceeds from each song download is actually reaching the artists that created the songs. Members of the UK chapter of the Music Managers Forum met today to launch a public awareness c...

Looking to fend off competition from Internet-based entertainment providers and others, DirecTV and XM Satellite radio have signed a deal to offer subscribers of DirecTV access to streaming radio offerings of XM. The two satellite-based companies said starting in mid-November DirecTV subscribers wi...

In today's marketplace, the word "solution" appears beside the word "software" so frequently that we unconsciously stutter the pair of words rather than one or the other when talking about new purchases or shopping for something to aid our businesses. This is marketing genius. Somewhere, the standar...

The online brokerage world continues to consolidate at breakneck speed as E*Trade announced its third acquisition in two months, saying it would buy BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal worth US$1.6 billion. The all-cash deal will give E*Trade access to a wealthy and active customer base,...

A lawsuit filed against Web sites that allege search engine results on Google.com were rigged by a placement firm is being watched throughout the Internet industry, as possibly having an impact on the free speech rights of bloggers, experts tell the E-Commerce Times. The Las Vegas-based search engin...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Worldwide spending on research and development will reach US$1 trillion in 2006, according to a survey released yesterday by Battelle and "R&D Magazine." The survey, which Battelle, of Columbus, Ohio, has been conducting annually for more than 40 years, showed that much of the growth in R&D ...

Microsoft is launching an effort to add hundreds of new employees at existing facilities in India, a move that could more than double its head-count there. Reports from Indian media say Microsoft is ramping up hiring at the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad and the Global Delivery Center ...

China announced new rules for Internet information within its borders this weekend, requiring any Chinese publisher of online news to have at least five professional news editors with three or more years of traditional media experience and US$1.2 million or more in registered capital, effectively li...

This weekend's mass service outage, though troubling, is being overshadowed by the Government of Pakistan's pursuit of permanent restrictions on Internet use in order to raise revenue for the government-owned telephone company there. Consumers in Pakistan were reportedly hit hard by the recent outag...

Film and television giant Viacom is said to be close to announcing a deal to buy video-on-demand site iFilm, a move that would give it an entirely new distribution channel for its deep well of content. Viacom, which owns MTV, CBS and Nickelodeon, among other TV properties, reportedly will pay about ...

Microsoft hasn't discussed the strategy behind the reorganization and new leadership the company announced yesterday other than to say that it wants to speed decision-making, but there are some messages that can be gleaned from its choices. With its new realignment, Microsoft may be trying to gain s...