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Sony Ericsson posted quarterly results that show it continues to gain market share against some competitors but is doing so at the expense of its bottom line. The fourth-largest handset maker posted its first year-over-year profit drop in two years, saying third quarter net earnings fell 10 percent ...

Today, in order to have a commanding e-commerce presence with universal access, domain names must be treated like very special golden keys. Without an effective domain name, the entire exercise of Internet-centric commerce becomes almost useless. Super success in cyber-branding lies in the sophistic...

Did you hit any garage sales when you were growing up? Most likely you didn't do it to save the planet but rather to make money or shop for bargains. Regardless of the motivation, a secondary result -- one with far grander, long-term benefits -- is that a lot of old items sold were kept out of the t...

Following its acquisition of Stumbleupon earlier this year, eBay is wading deeper into the social networking waters with a collection of its own micro-communities designed to foster interaction and sharing among members, the company announced Wednesday. The home-grown social networking feature, dubb...

Google on Wednesday launched the fifth version of its enterprise search appliance with more security, better internal search result relevance and a wider reach across enterprise content management systems. The Version 5.0 upgrades of the Google Search Appliance allow business managers to search acro...

Google has reached a deal to buy a Swedish firm that makes a social networking application that lets users blast their extended networks of friends with micro-blogs whether they're on a PC or a mobile phone. Google did not disclose the terms of its acquisition of Jaiku, which is based in Helsinki; n...

With all the social networking and photo-sharing Web sites out there, few teenagers are taken by surprise when they find that pictures they posed for have been posted online by their friends. However, few expect to see their likeness then featured, without their permission, on a billboard advertisem...

Google is introducing ad-supported video clips from YouTube -- what it calls "video units" -- to its AdSense platform, one of many steps in a strategy designed to glean a return on its massive investment in the video-sharing Web site. Google is working with select YouTube content partners, including...

NBC Universal will purchase Oxygen Media, the operator of a cable channel aimed at women, for $925 million, a move that dovetails with its 2006 purchase of the iVillage online network for $600 million. The acquisition gives NBC a cable channel that reaches 74 million homes and offers advertisers a f...

As it prepares to meet its customers' growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T's board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation's largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&...

As it prepares to meet its customers' growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T's board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation's largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&...

As it prepares to meet its customers' growing demands for wireless multimedia services, AT&T's board of directors approved the acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from Aloha Partners. The purchase will cost the nation's largest wireless carrier about $2.5 billion. The purchase will give AT&...

Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee stepped down Monday amid mounting pressure from investors of the telecommunication company, which said it would launch a worldwide search for its next leader. After days of rumors and published reports suggesting he was on the way out, Forsee announced he would leave th...

It's no secret that an awful lot of TV shows and movies can be found on file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and Kazaa. It's also no secret that the producers of those shows really, really hate it when people share them without permission. Is there a way for content makers to cash in on what is a c...

MSNBC Interactive, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, will buy Seattle-based startup Newsvine, a participatory news site that carries news from media outlets and from individual users who are paid for their writing. Newsvine uses the so-called "social model" of user-driven ranking of the new...