Business

Users of Yahoo's free instant messaging service have been targeted by a phishing attack, one of the first widespread attempts to use the messaging medium to pilfer personal information. Targets of the scam are sent a link that, when clicked, takes users to what appears to be a Yahoo site that asks f...

In an atmosphere where Internet users are bombarded with pop-up advertisements and "in-your-face" sales techniques, marketers need to re-examine how they use the Internet to target customers with valuable messages, not infuriate them with intrusive or irrelevant information. In order to be successf...

The fallout from the dot-com collapse a few years ago might be fueling a new rush for businesses to build a presence on the World Wide Web. Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell sees small businesses setting up shop on the Internet in record numbers. As storefront welcome signs announce a growing gat...

The entertainment industry's aggressive legal campaign against illegal file swappers has dramatically reduced the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks but might also be pushing the development of alternative "privatized" approaches to sharing music and video. The Pew Internet & American Life Proje...

Endwave, a provider of subsystems for broadband wireless networks that specializes in telecommunications, defense and homeland security, today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of 5 million shares of its common stock. Of the...

The Canadian government has proposed several copyright amendments that would serve to crack down on file sharing, preventing Internet users from freely swapping music, books and movies online. "This is terrific news," said Canadian Recording Industry Association President Graham Henderson. "Canada i...

Bidding to lay an early claim to an offbeat category of vertical search, Yahoo has launched a test version of a tool to help users find creative works that can be licensed through nontraditional means. Yahoo released a beta version of a search engine that seeks pictures, writings and other creative ...

Many publicly held companies have been struggling with SOX (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) since its enactment on July 30, 2002. In fact, some companies have chosen to either de-list as public companies (go private again) or change their listings to the Pink Sheets -- an electronic market where the compani...

Yahoo today became the latest in a line of large, high-profile technology companies planning to buy back shares of their own stock, a move that could bring renewed questions about why the firms don't use their cash to provide stock dividends to shareholders instead. The Internet giant joined the pac...

Computer Associates today named former Novell chief technology officer Alan Nugent to head its Unicenter business unit. Effective April 8, Nugent will become senior vice president and general manager of Unicenter reporting to Russel Artzt, CA's executive vice president of products. CA's largest div...

In a deal that links rivals in the mobile operating system space, Symbian said it will work with Microsoft to enable hand-held devices using its operating system to work with the popular Outlook e-mail program. The licensing deal will enable UK-based Symbian-loaded hand-helds to read e-mail and rece...

In the latest development in an ongoing software soap opera, the European Union today rejected Microsoft's selection of a trustee whose duty would have been to make sure the company complies with EU antitrust laws. "We have officially informed Microsoft that their proposal on the monitoring trustee ...

As mergers take off in all directions, newly stirred corporate philosophies must be properly captured, realigned and projected through new corporate name personas to ensure the confidence of long-term investors. It is extremely difficult to run a corporation with two faces, two messages and two name...

Time Warner has reached a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay US$300 million in fines to settle a long-simmering investigation into America Online's accounting practices during the height of the dot-com boom. The company said the SEC has formally approved a settlement that ...

The search wars took another interesting twist today as IAC/InteractiveCorp. announced it would buy search engine Ask Jeeves for around US$1.85 billion in stock. The move pairs IAC, a fast-growing e-commerce and social networking conglomerate with a powerful brand in several key online markets, with...