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Likely seeing better opportunities to leverage the News Corp. brand across multiple channels, Rupert Murdoch is reportedly in talks with partner Liberty Media on a deal that would give him full control of News Corp. Murdoch and Liberty have traded proposals to have Liberty exchange its stake in News...

The chances that major social networking sites will face a potentially massive copyright infringement suit from at least one major record label grew this week, with talks among the various parties reportedly breaking down. YouTube and MySpace have been on notice about copyright issues for some time...

In today's ever more challenging business climate, CEOs are pressured to handle multiple tasks, each of which might be critical to the long-term success of the company. If the CEO takes his/her eye off the ball for even a short length of time, other competing tasks might go undone to the detriment ...

The top 10 fastest growing Web sites in August with back-to-school online advertising campaigns were announced Tuesday by Internet media and marketing research firm Nielsen//NetRatings. Topping the list was eBags.com, which showed month-to-month growth of 118 percent, from a unique audience of 582,0...

Yahoo said Wednesday it had reached a multi-year deal to have its search tools distributed on PCs made by Taiwan-based Acer. Yahoo is hoping the move will help its search engine and other online tools reach users long before they even log onto the Web. Acer is the fourth-largest maker of PCs in the...

The office of the California Attorney General indicated it could be just days away from filing charges in connection with the investigation into media leaks conducted by former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn. In a nationally televised interview Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Lockyer indica...

Hardly a week passes without a report of consumer or company data being compromised. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer organization, more than 90 million data records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches since February ...

Michael Dell, whose namesake company has seen earnings drop, market share erode and accounting questions raised in recent months, attempted to deflect the blame from CEO Kevin Rollins, saying he too is partly to blame for the PC maker's missteps. Rollins, the former Dell COO who Michael Dell hand-pi...

Sears and Intel crowned a list of top performing Web sites released Monday by the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers. The annual report, now in its fifth year, analyzed the Web sites of all Fortune 100 c...

With memories of ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina still fresh in the minds of many, news comes that the company's chairman, Patricia Dunn, has agreed to step down. Dunn, who climbed the corporate ladder from secretary to CEO at Barclays Global Investors after abandoning a career in journalis...

It may seem simple, yet it is often overlooked. When it comes to choosing the right Internet hosting provider for their Web sites, the majority of business owners or companies know very little about making the best Internet/Web hosting decisions. What makes a good Internet/Web hoster for a business ...

The European Commission, the regulatory arm of the European Union, said Monday that it is expanding its investigation into possible antitrust behavior on the part of leading chip maker Intel by taking over a case involving a major electronics retail chain. The EC has long been looking into complaint...

The stretch of bad news continued for PC maker Dell, with the company saying Monday it would delay the filing of its second quarter financial report amid questions about past accounting practices. Dell told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would delay the final report on its second fis...

The size of an organization's data mountain can be expected to double roughly every five years, which can be an overwhelming prospect. For the firm that has implemented effective data management procedures, though, there's gold in them there hills. Interest in GIS-based Web services, such as Google ...

In a dramatic escalation of efforts to crack down on Internet-based gambling, law enforcement officials in the U.S. arrested an executive from Sportingbet, a major UK-based online gaming site. The arrest marks an expansion of efforts to use law enforcement to control Internet-based wagering, and com...