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CBS Radio is hoping to step up its Internet presence through a deal it announced Friday with AOL. CBS, the second-largest radio broadcaster in the U.S., plans to offer advertising-supported streams from 150 online radio stations to listeners free of charge over AOL's online radio portal. CBS Radio, ...

German police raided 51 booths of companies suspected of showing pirated products at electronics show CeBIT 2008, which runs through Sunday in Hannover, Germany. More than 180 police and customs officials participated in the swoop. They removed 68 cartons filled with devices, documents and advertisi...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offered frank answers -- and a few dance moves -- on a host of topics Thursday, addressing his company's bid for Yahoo and sharing his thoughts on rivals such as Google and Apple. Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki interviewed Ballmer at the Microsoft MIX Conference -- a gat...

Most of us are painfully aware that the real estate market has been on the decline for some time. In fact, some experts feel that it might take at least two years for prices to hit bottom. However, an interesting twist is bringing good news: Virtual real estate prices are on the rise! In fact, we no...

There's a very important question that many CIOs, CFOs and CEOs of e-commerce companies should be asking and aren't: Who controls the data? If they were, they'd realize that the person with the most unchecked power over their data integrity is probably their database administrator. By overlooking th...

Just days after warning that its first-quarter profit would be hit by weakness in its flash memory business, Intel assured analysts that it was committed to fixing the problems. CEO Paul Otellini used the chipmaker's annual two-day analyst gathering Wednesday and Thursday to clarify the factors behi...

Ziff Davis Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The publisher of technology and video game magazines -- it produces online and print versions of PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly and 15 Web sites, including its 1UP Network video-game information sites -- cited falling advert...

European Union regulators are poised to approve Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, according to published reports, handing the search giant a major victory and clearing the way for the $3.1 billion takeover to be closed quickly. The European Commission will approve the merger without conditions, a...

E-commerce suppliers face a difficult challenge. They must cultivate loyal customers, but that is becoming more difficult as the Internet enables consumers to roam freely from retailer to retailer. Now more than ever, the customer is in control, and that change is forcing many e-tailers to turn to c...

Facebook has a new honcho. The Web upstart-turned-conglomerate has lured away Sheryl Sandberg, Google's ad platform guru, to join its team as chief operating officer. Sandberg, who was with Google for six years, made an indelible stamp at the organization as she built out the Adsense and Adwords pro...

Ask.com is looking to women for answers. The 12-year-old search engine is reportedly narrowing its focus to appeal to married women, mostly in the South and Midwest, in its first major move under the direction of new CEO Jim Safka. Ask.com is trimming 40 jobs, according to published reports, as its ...

Seeking to buy time for its directors to explore alternatives before Microsoft can mount a campaign to win seats on its board, Yahoo has modified the way it nominates board members. The portal amended its bylaws to extend the deadline for nominating directors. The deadline was originally March 14 bu...

For anyone doing business online, commerce meets collaboration at a Web 2.0 portal -- a mutual touchpoint for a company, its partners and customers as well as a personalized filter of information and services found on the Web. The goal: aggregating high-value information about people, products and s...

Hoping to become the portal of choice into the mobile Web, Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled onePlace, a content and services management tool meant to become a customized mobile Web starting page. onePlace's bookmarking tools will enable users who access the Internet from smartphones and other handheld devi...

Semiconductor giant Intel has lowered its profitability forecast, sending stock prices tumbling across the board. The company cut its first-quarter gross margin forecast from 56 percent to 54 percent "due to lower than expected prices for NAND flash memory chips," Intel said. All other expectations ...