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Google and Amazon.com have tied the knot in a deal designed to expand Google's advertising presence and give Amazon users greater access to products not listed on the e-tailer's site. The multiyear agreement will make Google's search technology and targeted sponsored links available on Amazon. "If t...

Gateway has announced it will take advantage of a grace period, gaining an additional two weeks to file its annual report as it continues an internal review of how it accounted for revenue in 2000 and 2001. The company said it expects to adjust 2000 net sales to $9.26 billion, a reduction of $340 mi...

You hear it all the time: "You can't make money off free software." Actually, companies are making quite a bit of money from free software. IBM and HP, for example, have reaped billions of dollars in revenue from Linux. True, they are doing so by bundling open source software with servers and suppor...

When PayPal filed for its successful IPO last year, it listed a slew of competitors in the online payment arena. But those rivals, including Citibank, Wells Fargo, Yahoo, Microsoft and the U.S. Postal Service, barely sport as much market share combined as PayPal commands on its own. There are signs ...

When it comes to choosing a server to boost e-business efficiency, technology buyers have no shortage of options. Because of intense competition in the marketplace, the best server technologies -- and what is best for a particular enterprise -- may change rapidly. Even amid all of this upheaval, how...

Lucent Technologies has agreed to settle a series of class-action shareholder lawsuits, almost all relating to whether Lucent misled investors by providing incomplete financial reports. Lucent said the settlement will cost about $420 million. But attorneys in one of the main cases to be settled said...

Despite a lack of promotion and low to zero name recognition, it is becoming clear that vendors of white-box (unbranded) machines are an important part of the personal computer ecosystem. In fact, IDC has estimated that last year, about 31 percent of the 35 million desktop PCs sold in the United Sta...

Motorola has signed a 10-year global IT infrastructure outsourcing pact worth $1.6 billion with Computer Sciences Corporation, the largest such agreement in Motorola's history and a healthy sign for the outsourcing business. Under the agreement, CSC will manage Motorola's mid-range, desktop and dist...

In the latest in a series of moves designed to jump-start revenue growth at its beleaguered but still-dominant online service, AOL has rolled out a service that enables users to receive telephone voice mail in their e-mail inboxes and to hear their e-mail over the phone. The service is being offered...

The hype surrounding Web services, a technology that many once thought was destined to revive the Internet economy, has faded. But believers say this is still a true disruptive technology, one that will change the way enterprises interact with customers and with each other. In other words, the revol...

AMD entered 2003 with more to lose than ever before. The company commands a healthy share of the desktop and notebook chip market, with just under 20 percent -- the best figure it has enjoyed in the last few years. Now, AMD plans a slew of new product releases that could sway its fortunes for good o...

Internet traffic to online news sites and U.S. government pages surged as the U.S.-led war with Iraq got under way, with some sites experiencing a 50 percent increase in visitors, according to Web measurement companies. The surge came without any reports of disruptions or widespread slowdowns, even ...

Lured by promises of increased security, lower costs or simply the chance to align themselves with a company other than Microsoft, many enterprises are turning to Linux systems. More often than not, that means tapping Linux vendor Red Hat, which has come to dominate the market and has made its name ...

In a move likely to raise the hopes of high-tech deal watchers, Cisco Systems has entered the home networking fray by agreeing to acquire The Linksys Group, a leader in home, small-office and home-office (SOHO) networking gear, for $500 million in stock. "We felt we could do this on our own, but we ...

PayPal is the de facto market leader in the person-to-small business payment universe, but change is in the air. Since eBay purchased it in 2002, PayPal has become a revenue unit of the world's most successful e-commerce venture -- eBay's secret weapon, as it were. But is this weapon double-edged? P...