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Borders Group is severing its alignment with Amazon.com and will be unveiling its own book-selling Web site as part of a major company restructuring designed to "revitalize, refocus, and ultimately reinvent the company." Borders' arrangement with Amazon, initiated seven years ago as a seemingly good...

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to halt a lengthy review that could have ended the ban on mobile phone use during airline flights. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin has begun circulating a motion to full commission that calls for the idea of expanding use of cell phones on planes to ...

Imagine a scene from a never-ending story, where stern men in heavy cloaks glide down endless halls and gather in huge dark chambers, where false grins mask unspoken hostilities. The wizard of the century enters, pauses, strikes a pose, and then sharply raises his voice and addresses the chamber: "S...

A federal judge has overturned the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a 1998 law that was designed to keep children from viewing pornographic materials on the Internet. Although it was signed by President Bill Clinton, it never took effect. In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a temporary injun...

NBC and News Corp. plan to take on Google's YouTube by forming their own Web-based video outlet to gain exposure for their deep wells of content and partnering with a host of Google competitors to make it happen. The two media giants say their site will instantly be the largest Internet video distri...

Microsoft continues to abuse its market position to gain market share, particularly in the business server software space where earlier antitrust penalties were aimed at boosting competition, the European Union's top regulator told the European Parliament Thursday. The market situation is "not accep...

Motorola on Thursday said it would miss its current quarterly sales growth targets by $1 billion or more and replaced its chief financial officer as part of a restructuring aimed at righting what appears to be a badly listing corporate ship. The company, the largest U.S.-based mobile handset maker a...

It's no secret that e-commerce search and online merchandising have a magnetic attraction. These applications morphed into the e-commerce lexicon as "searchandising," enabling merchants who integrate search and merchandising to realize higher levels of customer satisfaction and returns. Seventy perc...

Google announced Tuesday that it plans to enhance its successful online advertising service by offering clients an alternate business model -- if an ad does not get results, advertisers do not have to pay for it. Now, instead of paying per click, advertisers will be able to experiment with paying ea...

Adobe Systems posted better-than-expected guidance for the second quarter, causing its shares to rise by some 5.5 percent. Adobe expects to realize revenue of some $700 million to $740 million in Q2. Non-GAAP earnings, it said, should come in at 34 cents to 36 cents per share. For the fiscal first q...

In its latest move to promote its plan to merge with XM Satellite Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio says it will offer lower-priced packages to consumers if the companies are allowed to join. The goal, Sirius noted in a federal filing, would be to offer customers fewer channels at a price less than the ...

Business software giant Oracle blew past Wall Street targets for profit and revenue in its third quarter, with demand for many of its applications lending further support to its massive acquisition spree. The company's results also may help ease investor concern about the health of technology spendi...

Search-driven online marketing is increasingly leveling the playing field for smaller companies to compete against the big boys when it comes to reaching new customers and markets online. B2B search provides a way for small, local advertisers to find the customers and other businesses that are actua...

Blockbuster on Tuesday said it had settled its long-simmering pay dispute with Chairman and CEO John Antioco, striking a deal that calls for him to step down later this year with a reduced pay and bonus package. Under the deal, the company will pay Antioco a bonus of $3.05 million for calendar year ...

Cerberus Capital Management has put an offer on the table to take Affiliated Computer Services private in a $5.9 billion buyout. That translates to $59.25 per share, a 15.5 percent premium over the ACS closing price on Monday. ACS, a provider of business process outsourcing and information technolog...