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Providence Equity Partners might back away from its $1.2 billion deal to buy Clear Channel Communications' 56 television stations, an agreement announced in April that was supposed to close soon. Confirmation of Providence's sudden case of cold feet came Thursday in a report filed by Clear Channel w...

There's little doubt that Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance made one of the biggest technology marketing splashes in recent memory on Monday with their introduction of Android. What kind of lasting impact the platform will have on the cellular industry, however, is less certa...

Many entrepreneurs think that it is not possible to bring a smaller company public. They feel that a company needs to have a long track record, as well as show a profit. Actually, neither is a prerequisite to bringing a company public. Smaller companies that have achieved some level of profitability...

Each year, financial institutions invest hundreds of millions of dollars in online banking channels in an attempt to meet the increasing customer demand for convenient, reliable access to banking information and products. Failure to complete customer transactions results in wasted investment, and th...

Cisco's first-quarter revenue rose 17 percent and profit jumped 37 percent, but the networking gear maker's shares took a beating after it failed to provide a more upbeat forecast. The company earned $2.21 billion, or 35 cents per share, for its first quarter, and revenue climbed to $9.55 billion. T...

As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small and medium-size businesses jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process them across borders very easily at low cost. For SMBs in the U.S., curren...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas -- at least on major retailers' Web sites. Banner ads are popping up on major e-commerce sites -- including Amazon.com and Wal-Mart.com -- highlighting top-selling computers, DVDs, toys and consumer electronics items as well as offering hints to help shopp...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AT&T employee-turned-whistleblower Mark Klein, a 62-year-old retired telecommunications technician, was in Washington Wednesday to meet with members of Congress to convince them that telecommunications companies shouldn't get immunity for the part they played in helping the National Security Age...

AOL will buy the content-targeted advertising specialist Quigo, signaling that an aggressive spending spree meant to make it more of a player in the Internet advertising marketplace may be coming to a close. AOL parent company Time Warner said it had reached a deal to buy the New York-based firm for...

Flanked by landmark partners including Coca-Cola and Microsoft, Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new advertising system that allows marketers to tap into the power of personal connections on the wildly popular social networking site. Facebook Ads provides a way for businesses to connect with users and...

It's been nearly a month since the British rock band Radiohead shook the music industry by releasing an entire album on its Web site and allowing fans to pay whatever they wanted, down to and including nothing, to download and own the music forever. Now, the preliminary sales results are in, as tabu...

What are customers around the world saying about the new booming Middle Eastern brands? What are they reading in the brand names? Which ones are they loving and talking about? Which ones can they pronounce, type and remember easily? Are these new local brands leading the charge for global mindshare ...

The holiday season may still be more than a month away, but you can be sure marketers and retailers already have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Consumers are expected to spend roughly $48 billion on consumer electronics in the fourth quarter, for example, and almost half of that -- $...