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Google plans to provide Web advertisers with more data and tools to combat click fraud, a damaging practice that costs advertisers an estimated $16 billion a year. The new tools are part of an effort to crack down on click fraud and dull its impact on the otherwise highly profitable pay per click on...

The European Commission on Thursday stepped up the antitrust penalties Microsoft could have to pay to a whopping $4 million a day for what the Commission says are unreasonable pricing practices. In a statement of objections sent to Microsoft, the commission said the company had failed to comply with...

Wall Street's Wednesday rebound helped repair some of the psychological damage caused by Tuesday's 416-point loss in the Dow, but questions remain about computer malfunctions that may have contributed to the Dow's plunge. Dow Jones, which collects and reports market data, and the New York Stock Exch...

Unfortunately, it is now easier and cheaper than ever for those bent on illicit gain to use the Internet to obtain the private, personal information necessary to impersonate you online -- the first step for cybercriminals to gain access to your financial information. "Online identity theft is going ...

Information technology service management -- how IT is delivered inside an enterprise as a service -- and a related area, the quickly evolving Information Technology Infrastructure Library, form complementary trends that are helping to mature IT as a customer-focused, quality-of-service activity. IT...

Sprint Nextel on Wednesday reported higher profits in Q4, crediting the gains in part to recent acquisitions of former affiliates, including Nextel Partners. The Reston, Va.-based company earned $261 million, or 9 cents per share, up from $197 million, or 7 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales wer...

There's no doubt that online banking is widely popular in this country -- just ask the millions of customers who've signed on for the convenience it provides. As fraudsters create new scams to bilk financial services customers or to simply hijack their accounts, however, banking customer trust is on...

Google's YouTube said Monday it had struck a deal to license video from the National Basketball Association for use on the video-sharing site, which is also intended to encourage user development of basketball-flavored content. The deal is a small but symbolic victory for Google, which has struggled...

A consortium of private equity firms agreed Monday to purchase Dallas-based utility TXU for a record $45 billion, in a deal sealed with the help of environmental groups. As part of the buyout plan, TXU will shelve plans to build eight coal-fired power plants and also invest in "green" energy technol...

As the Microsoft v. AT&T case wound its way through the U.S. court system, warnings abounded that an adverse ruling could seriously complicate software companies' global manufacturing and sales strategies. This theory was reinforced by a federal court jury decision, which ordered Microsoft to pa...

Five years ago, it was the rare technologist who spent much time dealing with compliance and regulatory issues. Up until relatively recently, only a handful of technologists in certain highly regulated sectors -- such as financial services or government -- spent much time evaluating regulatory issue...

As the Microsoft v. AT&T case wound its way through the U.S. court system, warnings abounded that an adverse ruling could seriously complicate software companies' global manufacturing and sales strategies. This theory was reinforced by a federal court jury decision, which ordered Microsoft to pa...

As the Microsoft v. AT&T case wound its way through the U.S. court system, warnings abounded that an adverse ruling could seriously complicate software companies' global manufacturing and sales strategies. This theory was reinforced by a federal court jury decision, which ordered Microsoft to pa...

Swedish wireless equipment giant Ericsson is hoping to boost its multimedia services for the Internet with the purchase of Tandberg Television. The buy could push Ericsson to the vanguard of IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, which is likely to be one of the major markets for the telecom industr...

AOL is extending the time period in which Swedish online marketer TradeDoubler can consider its acquisition offer. AOL, a unit of Time Warner, in January offered to buy the firm for $900 million in cash with an acceptance offer to expire Feb. 19. The new deadline is March 14. Fund manager Alecta, Tr...