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Several radio broadcasters and online media companies are challenging a ruling this week that sets a higher royalty fee structure for music played over the Internet. The Copyright Royalty Board, a body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in the music industry, has decided on a higher fee ...

Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell called on India to lower its taxes on foreign-made computers, saying the fast-growing market could invite more investment by doing so. Dell, whose namesake company is set to open its first Indian PC production plant in the southern city of Chennai later this year, s...

There is an ever-increasing number of people that are utilizing the Web to support or altogether run their businesses. However, setting up your online storefront is not the last hurdle an e-business owner faces. Once an online presence is established, there is still the matter of marketing your busi...

Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all the complaints made to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to a report released Friday. Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent,...

Ending months of speculation, Google confirmed that it has acquired in-game advertising firm Adscape Media. The move could help make Google a player in a market already being heavily targeted by Microsoft and other rivals. Google confirmed the purchase on its official blog through a posting by Berni...

The trial of the former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio began Monday. Nacchio is accused of violating insider trading laws as he sold some $101 million of the telecom company's shares. Nacchio, who served as Qwest CEO from 1997 to 2002, faces 42 charges of insider trading, each one involving...

As it grows, a successful Web site or application generates more and more traffic. Unless infrastructure can be scaled to match, its increasingly slow performance will discourage users from coming back, and a promising application will have failed. Raising the ante is the fact that many new applicat...

CBS on Thursday announced a deal with YouTube to form a new Web channel featuring clips and highlights from the annual NCAA basketball tournament known as "March Madness." The deal comes just days after CBS' former sister company, Viacom, filed suit against YouTube -- and its owner, Google -- seekin...

The European Union's 27 telecommunications ministers came to an agreement on planned regulations to reduce mobile phone roaming fees Thursday. The announcement came after an informal meeting at this year's CeBIT technology trade show held in Hannover, Germany. The EU ministers said they want to see...

Cingular Wireless will refund $18.5 million to former California customers who were charged penalties for canceling substandard wireless service. The company will also drop plans to appeal to the Supreme Court the ruling against it in the case. Under an agreement reached with the California Public U...

The Japanese Internet mogul who became emblematic of the high-flying Internet sector in that country was found guilty Friday of fraud and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Takafumi Horie, the 34-year-old founder of Internet portal, Web services and interactive marketing firm Livedoor, was found gu...

Cisco has agreed to pay a pretty penny for WebEx. By any measure, the $3.2 billion -- in cash -- represents a hefty premium. The company obviously has big plans for this product line. Either that, or it wanted to take WebEx off the market so no one else would acquire it. Or both. Indeed, ever since...

We all negotiate one thing or another almost on a daily basis. When you negotiate, you are trying to achieve a goal through discussion and compromise. Typically, both elements have to be present in order to arrive at a successful outcome. Therefore, you must be able to communicate and be willing to...

If I've learned one thing in my career in retailing and the Internet, it is that people love the opportunity to save money. They hate it when somebody else is getting a bargain when they aren't. This is actually how I got started in the online couponing business. I noticed when I was "checking out" ...

Time Warner's AOL unit said it would withdraw its $900 million offer to purchase the Swedish online marketing company TradeDoubler, saying it had not received enough interest in its bid from shareholders. TradeDoubler's management had backed the AOL offer, which was made in January, but several majo...