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Google is moving to settle a class action lawsuit alleging widespread click fraud on its paid search network, setting aside US$90 million to repay advertisers who can prove they fell victim to the practice during a four-year period starting in 2002. The payouts would take the form of account credits...

Last Friday -- essentially the eleventh hour of a years-long lawsuit -- Research In Motion reached a US$612.5 million settlement with NTP, relieving legions of customers who have come to feel they cannot possibly last very long without their BlackBerries. In this suit, NTP successfully challenged RI...

For the second time in as many weeks, Google caused its own stock to fall, with shares sent lower this time by the search company's admission that it inadvertently posted financial projections on the Web before pulling them back. Google shares were down as much as US$10 or about 3 percent to $353.56...

Search engine Blinkx unveiled a new search tool Tuesday that it said will deliver search results to users automatically, eliminating the need to stop another activity to begin a query. The search, known as Pico, is also being billed as the smallest search program available, taking up just 1MB of spa...

Microsoft said it has been granted its 5,000th U.S. patent, securing protection for a technology that enables multi-player and spectator online gaming and achieving a milestone that underscores a significant shift in strategy for the software giant. Microsoft said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic...

In the past, cyber attacks were largely designed to destroy data, but today's attacks are increasingly designed to silently steal data for profit without doing system damage that would be noticeable to a user, according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Symantec released on Tue...

In a move to extend its reach, NBC Universal on Monday agreed to buy iVillage, a leading online destination for women, for approximately US$600 million in cash. NBC Universal, which runs the NBC television network and the Universal film studio, will pay $8.50 in cash for each share of iVillage's sto...

The telecommunications industry has taken another giant leap toward consolidation, with the new AT&T -- created through a blockbuster merger completed just months ago -- poised to buy regional provider BellSouth in a deal worth US$67 billion in stock. The deal would create the largest single tel...

The telecommunications industry has taken another giant leap toward consolidation, with the new AT&T -- created through a blockbuster merger completed just months ago -- poised to buy regional provider BellSouth in a deal worth US$67 billion in stock. The deal would create the largest single tel...

The telecommunications industry has taken another giant leap toward consolidation, with the new AT&T -- created through a blockbuster merger completed just months ago -- poised to buy regional provider BellSouth in a deal worth US$67 billion in stock. The deal would create the largest single tel...

Research In Motion begins the week with one of the biggest hurdles the company has faced behind it, thanks to a US$612.5 million settlement with patent holder NTP, a deal that averted a possible shutdown of the BlackBerry e-mail service in the U.S. With more than nearly six years of legal turmoil pu...

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed this week it is investigating possible price fixing among the major recording labels for online music. The probe is similar to action taken by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who last month continued an investigation of digital download collusion and...

A judge has cleared the way for Toys 'R' Us to terminate its e-commerce partnership with Amazon.com, a 10-year dot-com era partnership the toy seller has been seeking to terminate for nearly two years. Toys 'R' Us sued Amazon in May of 2004, seeking to terminate an agreement struck in 2000 under whi...

Intel, the leading chipmaker and one of the most closely watched technology sector bellwethers, cut its revenue forecast for the current quarter Thursday, citing market share erosion and weaker demand. Sales will be between US$8.7 billion and $9.1 billion, the company said, substantially below the $...

Most Americans think that the U.S. dollar is the dominant world currency, and in many ways, it is. In fact, the dollar has been the currency of choice since not too long after World War I. However, in the last 20 years or so, Japan has emerged as an economic powerhouse, and its currency, the yen, h...