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Moving even further into the e-business arena, telecommunications giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) announced Tuesday that it has inked a $450 million (US$), multi-year Web hosting deal with IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM). IBM will contract for up to several hundred thousand square feet of Internet hosting faci...

With a decision due as soon as Wednesday in the copyright infringement case pitting Universal Music Group (UMG) against MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP), the record label is asking the judge hearing the case to "sting" the file-sharing company with a stiff monetary penalty.

Samsung Electronics, Inc., the world's largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects chip shortages to last another two years and pledged $5.2 billion (US$) to expand production.

Moving even further into the e-business arena, telecommunications giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) announced Tuesday that it has inked a $450 million (US$), multi-year Web hosting deal with IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM). IBM will contract for up to several hundred thousand square feet of Internet hosting faci...

Moving even further into the e-business arena, telecommunications giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T) announced Tuesday that it has inked a $450 million (US$), multi-year Web hosting deal with IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM). IBM will contract for up to several hundred thousand square feet of Internet hosting faci...

Online shoppers will spend almost $20 billion (US$) this holiday season, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group.

U.S. businesses widened their lead over their European competitors in the e-commerce arena last year, though there are signs that European companies hold advantages that could turn things around, according to a new survey from Andersen Consulting.

A new report by Media Metrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) division AdRelevance shows that while traditional companies are beginning to realize the marketing potential of the Internet, online advertising is dominated by dot-coms.

In the 1980s, Irish citizens were leaving the country in droves. The economy was in miserable shape and the country's spirit was sagging. Isolationism and intransigence over bitterly divisive internal issues contributed to a national malaise.

I'll be brief. Time is precious, after all, which is why everything moves so fast in the digital age. Why we moved from snail mail to e-mail to instant messaging. Instant. The word itself conveys an adrenalized fervor. But maybe it's time to give an old aphorism new meaning: speed kills.

GoTo.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOTO) will provide search services for users of America Online (NYSE: AOL) as part of an expanded agreement announced Tuesday by the two firms.

Lawyers for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are drawing up a list of concessions it wants executives from America Online (NYSE: AOL) and Time Warner (NYSE: TW) to agree to before it will approve their proposed $147 billion (US$) merger, according to published reports Tuesday.

Scour, Inc. has laid off all but a fraction of its workforce, saying pending lawsuits have scared away investors lined up to fund the file-sharing network.

Taking direct aim at chief rival Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) on Tuesday rolled out its newest computer chip aimed at lower-cost computer systems, the Duron 750 megahertz processor.

Electronic billing and payment provider CheckFree (Nasdaq: CKFR) announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Transpoint LLC in a stock deal valued at around $1 billion (US$).