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Time Warner's profits for the second quarter were up about 5.2 percent, thanks largely to the strength of its cable division, the company reported Wednesday. Net profit for the quarter was $1.067 billion, or 28 cents per share, up from $1.014 billion, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier, the compa...

Online video watching is growing rapidly, and where the eyeballs go, you can expect advertisers to follow. Sixty-five percent of U.S. broadband users watch video online at least occasionally -- a substantial increase over last year, when that number was 44 percent, according to a report released las...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic. Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung SYNC and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music serv...

Sun Microsystems has chalked up its third profitable quarter in a row, a testament that the company's turnaround plan is taking hold. Profits for the server company's fourth quarter were $329 million, or 9 cents a share -- a significant step up from the 5 cents a share analysts expected. It is also ...

Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday. Revenue reached $226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 mil...

Web analytics usage has reached mainstream status, with 82 percent adoption among companies surveyed recently by Aberdeen. However, a vast range of maturity exists regarding analytics process, data analysis and corporate understanding of Web metrics. A fundamental impediment precluding many companie...

Verizon posted strong financial gains for the second quarter of 2007 Monday, calling out its growth in wireless and high-speed Internet subscribers. The diversified phone company's net profit rose 4.5 percent to $1.7 billion, up from $1.61 billion from the same period a year earlier. Verizon's opera...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...

Ask anyone what comes to mind when they think of TJX Companies, and they'll almost certainly mention the infamous data breach earlier this year that exposed more than 45 million customer credit and debit cards to hackers. That's the kind of publicity most companies can do without, but it's also the ...

Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications convicted of 19 counts of insider trading, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison plus financial penalties totaling $71 million. At Nacchio's hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in Denver, U.S. District Judge Edw...

Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchange AdECN -- its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform. Although the financial terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, "all of the shareholders are extremely, extremely happy with the deal and acquis...

The European Commission on Friday confirmed that it has sent a statement of objections to Intel charging the microprocessor giant with engaging in anticompetitive practices. The letter, which was sent Thursday, accuses Intel of abusing its dominant market position in order to deliberately exclude AM...

For startup e-commerce companies, protecting customer data doesn't always come naturally. Small matters such as getting a business idea out of the starting gates and into the race -- not to mention winning those very first customers -- tend to overshadow the many liabilities associated with collecti...