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It used to be that armed guards, locked file cabinets and vaults were the tools for securing currency, as businesses operated in a physical world. Today, information is the currency of the global economy, as consumers pay through electronic card swipes, employees are paid through direct deposit, and...

Viacom's MTV Networks on Friday announced plans to acquire music gaming company Harmonix Music Systems in a US$175 million cash deal. Under the terms of the deal, Harmonix shareholders may be eligible for incremental earn-out payments through 2008, to the extent that financial results exceed specifi...

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd scheduled a press conference for late Friday afternoon, seeking to answer questions about his involvement in the boardroom-level investigation into press leaks that is now the subject of a criminal probe. HP announced that Hurd would speak to reporters after the U.S. st...

The business of providing small businesses with e-commerce hosting and support solutions is growing fast. The large-enterprise market is crowded, and competition is fierce. That has led an increasing number of e-commerce platform providers to enter the SMB end, where they are looking to establish fo...

A new effort to reduce the amount of child pornography available on the Internet is being launched with federal officials and private groups poised to shut down Web sites, including those that aren't necessarily the subject of criminal charges or investigations. Several major Internet service provid...

In what could be a major shift in the social networking landscape, Yahoo has reportedly held talks to purchase Facebook, which trails rival MySpace.com in terms of total users, but has found traction among the college-age demographic with a more restrictive membership approach. A report in the Wall ...

If you are running serious business applications on the Web, downtime or Web site slowness equals lost dollars. This is true either directly, by missed sales if you are running an e-commerce store, or indirectly, through lost customer trust if you are providing a Web-based solution to clients. When...

Oracle released its 2007 first quarter fiscal results late Tuesday showing soaring corporate profits that reflect considerable market share gains in the business management software field, according to the company. President and CFO Safra Catz said Oracle was in excellent fiscal shape and has excee...

A proposed treaty that would expand the rights of broadcasters over what they deliver to consumers cleared a significant hurdle last week at a meeting of an international copyright panel. The panel -- the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organiza...

Internet stocks dropped Tuesday after Yahoo said its third-quarter financial results would lean toward the low end of its earlier guidance, sparking concerns that the Web advertising boom may be cooling and that the portal is seeing the first signs of an economic slowdown. Relatively slow ad sales i...

In a bid to extend its reach further into the enterprise marketplace, Motorola has agreed to buy Symbol Technologies in a deal worth around US$3.9 billion. Symbol's products include a range of mobile solutions for businesses, including radio frequency identification technologies such as bar-code rea...

Intel and security vendor Check Point Software Technologies are launching a jointly developed solution they say maximizes Intel chips to produce faster data security products and eliminates bottlenecks that occur when massive amounts of data are filtered through slower processors. The companies said...

AOL and Intel on Monday launched a Web-based video service meant to combine AOL's extensive video library with Intel's hardware expertise in a bid to accelerate the adoption of Internet-based video-on-demand. The joint venture combined the recently revamped AOL Video channel with the Intel Viiv line...

Dell said it will invest more than US$250 million to build a new computer plant in Poland, a move meant to help the PC maker target a key emerging market in central and eastern Europe. The company said it had signed an agreement with the Polish government on Monday to build the plant in the city of ...

Want to be your own boss? Got an itch to try your hand at e-commerce but don't consider yourself a techie? Maybe you've got an eye for style, the next big fad, or just useful products. Or perhaps you have the pulse of a particular space, as well as the sales and marketing savvy to put an idea to ...