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Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Shine will offer content licensed from publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst in nine categories, including f...

North American manufacturers have faced years of intense, globalized competition. This onslaught compelled them to modernize their manufacturing processes to compete effectively. The result has been that many plants have become models of efficiency and agility. This modernization allowed manufactu...

Radio giant Clear Channel Communications warned Thursday that it cannot estimate when its planned sale to a private equity consortium may be closed. The buyers, which include Bain Capital and other private equity firms, stand ready to close on the $19.5 billion deal at the end of the month as planne...

Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford Bros. in a Boston Globe report Friday confirmed that malware that had been installed on the 271-store chain's servers led to a data breach that compromised as many as 4.2 million debit and credit card accounts. Hannaford told Massachusetts regulators that it found ...

Electronic Arts' hostile takeover attempt for Take-Two Interactive continued Friday with EA's announcement that it has amended its offer for the fellow gaming publishers' investors. Included in EA's amendments to its bid is an extension of the tender offer deadline from April 11 to April 18. The cha...

The London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market has been a resounding success. There are now more than 1,689 companies on AIM -- more than on the UK's official list. The LSE promotes AIM as the most successful growth market in the world when marketing itself to international companies. Much ...

In a bid to boost confidence in the reliability of its cloud computing initiative, Amazon Web Services on Thursday launched functionality that allows users to have static IP addresses. Previously, the service did not offer static IP addresses, which made it more difficult for Web developers to creat...

Rambus has won a patent-related trial against three semiconductor companies. The long legal battle may not be entirely finished for the technology developer, however. Put in basketball terms, Wednesday's victory was more a three-point shot with a minute remaining than a last-minute slam dunk. A jury...

Oracle's shares fell 7.2 percent Thursday on news that the company did not sell as many new licenses in its third quarter as expected. The stock closed at $19.43 per share, down from $20.94 a day earlier. Sales of new software in Q3 registered $1.6 billion, a 16 percent increase from the same quarte...

Pay a bill, save a tree. That, in essence, is the message of a study that the PayItGreen Alliance made public on Tuesday. The alliance, sponsored by the non-profit National Automated Clearinghouse Association, was formed last October to add another consumer inducement -- environmental stewardship --...

After months of battling over the extent to which Comcast was blocking user access to the P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent, the two companies have decided to work together to craft solutions to ensure full access. Comcast plans to work directly with BitTorrent and others in the Web services and I...

A few short months after their last joint venture to build a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax tanked, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are at it again. This time, they are holding talks with various partners, and reports are that they are trying to raise $3 billion for the project. The WiMax st...

Most organizations are under the misimpression that by simply maintaining a generic legal hold policy, they will avoid any adverse consequences in litigation. Those organizations are wrong. In fact, one could have a brilliant legal hold plan and still face sanctions if it fails to address the down...

A little less than two weeks after Electronic Arts offered Take-Two Interactive stockholders $2 billion in a hostile takeover bid, Take-Two's board unanimously urged shareholders to reject the unsolicited proposal Wednesday morning. Take-Two's board said the $26 per share price is "inadequate" and "...

Having watched its shares lose nearly half of their value in the last year and its cell phone business continue to languish among the also-rans in a crowded field, Motorola will split into two publicly traded companies, separating its mobile devices business from its broadband and mobility solutions...