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Think taking your small business global is mission impossible? Think again. Communications advances are making globalization a reality, and it's the small business owners of the world who are busting borders and realizing greater growth potential. So says Laurel Delaney, CEO of GlobeTrade.com and au...

Powerhouse telecom providers Nokia and Siemens intend to merge their telecom networks businesses to create one of the largest entities in the industry. The 50-50 US$30 billion joint venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, is expected to generate $20 billion a year in revenue. More significantly, the merger...

The drumbeat of bad news continues for Vonage, with the VoIP startup, whose recent IPO has become something of a train wreck, saying Monday it has been sued by telecom giant Verizon for patent infringement. Vonage said it had received notice that parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. and its U.S.-sub...

With Bill Gates planning to step back in two years from the software giant he founded, the reality is setting in that the technology world is losing one of its most instantly recognizable and polarizing figures. Observers say the change could be a significant one for both Microsoft and the tech sec...

Disaster recovery planning is becoming a core part of business. Yet even when companies prepare for the worst, unexpected circumstances are bound to occur when a disaster actually hits. After such an incident, companies must shift modes -- from bracing for the calamity to planning for business conti...

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants to sell the entire Illinois lottery -- including the emerging online ticket sales operation -- to fund education for Illinois residents. The plan is generating opposition from expected, and unexpected, quarters, but don't count me among the opponents -- just y...

Hoping to give advertisers greater control over their online campaigns and to match competitors, Google said Friday it had introduced a time scheduling feature to its AdWords platform. Ad scheduling, also known as dayparting, enables advertisers to choose precise times when they want their ads to ru...

Citing strong revenue growth across its major product lines, Oracle said Thursday it would exceed its previous sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter. The announcement from Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle gave investors reasons for optimism that the strength would spread to other tec...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday announced a major transition for the company he founded. Gates will give up his day-to-day role at Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "This was a hard decision ...

Amazon.com, daring to tread on ground where some of the most spectacular dot-com burnouts took place, has begun selling groceries through its sprawling e-tail site. Without formally announcing the move, Amazon added a beta version of a "grocery" category, bringing to 34 the number of different produ...

Netscape, the browser company whose rise and fall helped define the first decade of the World Wide Web, is being revamped yet again by parent company AOL, which hopes to fashion it into a news site that leverages some of the hottest trends in today's Web -- social-networking, tagging and blogging. A...

Even with a steady stream of database breaches that lead to potential identity theft making headlines nearly every day, e-commerce continues to grow steadily, with many consumers increasingly sanguine about turning over sensitive information such as their credit card numbers to online merchants. St...

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are the most likely alternatives News Corp. is considering for providing its popular MySpace social networking site with search functionality. MySpace already offers a Web search feature. This April, it was included for the first time in comScore's search engine rankings,...

In the first major pass at realizing e-commerce gains from its US$2.6 billion purchase of peer-to-peer communications firm Skype, eBay said it would begin to offer sellers on its auction platform the ability to let buyers contact them using the Internet text and voice chat technology. eBay is target...

As the utilization of search marketing grows, the perspective from which you view its impact on your organization must also grow. Search engine marketing can no longer be viewed in a silo where its only measure of success is direct response metrics. Whether you like it or not, you must realize that ...