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It's not news that industry leaders in many markets are rushing to join the "earth friendly" revolution. Their "green" initiatives range from new eco-friendly products, such as paper towels made of recycled paper, to corporate programs promoting community involvement, such as Dell's "Plant a Tree fo...

Yahoo's stock surged nearly 7 percent to $12.12 per share in mid-day trading on Wednesday after the struggling Internet portal reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results. Wall Street analysts also seemed impressed with the debut of new CEO Carol Bartz, who took over the reins fro...

IBM received nearly 4,200 patents in 2008 from the United States Patent & Trademark Office, making Big Blue the undisputed king of the intellectual property game for the 16th year running. A closer look at U.S. patent numbers collated by IFI Patent Intelligence reveals something else: More and m...

Just a week after beating Wall Street expectations with a sterling earnings report, IBM is rumored to be laying off between 1,400 and 2,800 employees. If true, IBM would be the latest on a long list of technology companies that have shed jobs in the past few weeks. Last week, Microsoft announced it ...

The U.S. Senate voted late Monday to institute a four-month delay in the nation's switch from analog to all-digital television signals in a move meant to give millions of Americans more time to prepare for the transition. Television broadcasters are scheduled to go all-digital on Feb. 17, in effect ...

The micro-blog site Twitter is rumored to have inked an agreement with Institutional Venture Partners and possibly other venture capital firms that values it at an eye-popping $250 million. Assuming the report is correct, it says much about the state of VC financing in general, as well as the indust...

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court, reversing a nearly 100 year old statute outlawing price setting, is in the spotlight for retailers, lobbyists and economic theorists. For the past 96 years, retailers have been protected under an umbrella of antitrust laws prohibiting the collusion of manufactur...

It was supposed to be a legal showdown between the people who bring you The New York Times and the people who bring you community news; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists at the Gray Lady covering wars, presidential campaigns and Wall Street corporate meltdowns vs. low-paid reporters telling you abo...

For the past few decades, checks, ACH, credit cards and debit cards have been the primary means of payments for consumers. These payment methods have been successful because consumers can pay for their purchases without carrying cash, merchants can increase sales by reaching a wider consumer base, a...

Search engine powerhouse Google reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter financial results Thursday that sent the company's stock soaring nearly 6 percent to $323.88 per share in mid-day trading on Friday. The news comes on the heels of sobering developments in the broader technology sector. M...

When ubExact.com's CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson started work on her innovative beta platform last year for a new search engine concept, she had every reason to believe consumers would gravitate to the new search technology designed around the way they searched the Internet. However, what she did not co...

Chip giant Intel announced Wednesday that it will shutter four of its semiconductor factories and lay off as many as 6,000 employees by the end of 2009. The news follows on the heels of media speculation that Intel could suffer its first quarterly loss since Q4 of 1986. Intel said last week that it ...

Microsoft startled Wall Street -- as well as the tech community -- with earnings that point to at least two quarters of declining profit and revenue, as well as plans to slash its workforce by 5,000. The rapidly declining economy, of course, is at the root of Microsoft's financial situation, which e...

The serious objections by U.S. Department of Commerce to ICANN's new policies on creating unlimited domain suffixes are primarily based on old domain name thinking and continued fear of losing control of the Internet. The comments lack understanding of global business naming problems surrounded by i...

What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods. ubExact.com went out of business, unable to sustain enough financial traction to make the innovation viable. ubExact spent much of its bet...