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Regulators in Europe have cleared the way for Microsoft and Time Warner to acquire a content-protection company that could accelerate the adoption of digital rights management, reduce software piracy and make it easier for content owners to distribute movies and music on the Internet. The European C...

More than 60 percent of Americans now subscribe to wireless calling plans as the cell phone industry continues to post dramatic growth and readies for the next generation of wireless services, according to new data from an industry association. CTIA, the wireless industry association, said in its se...

What infectious disease killed more adults and young people around the globe at the end of the 20th century than any other? What resurgent disease has become resistant to each new drug developed since the discovery of streptomycin in 1944? What disease kills one third of all people who die with AIDS...

Both Yahoo and America Online have struck deals with Research in Motion, the maker of the hugely popular BlackBerry hand-held, to put their respective versions of instant messenger software on the devices. Research in Motion announced pacts with both companies today, saying that devices integrated w...

The Federal Trade Commission has barred an operation that offered bogus spyware detection scans. The free scanner "detected" spyware whether it was present on the user's computer or not in an underhanded attempt to peddle its non-working anti-spyware software, according to the government agency. The...

Targeting a fast-growing company that addresses a growing business concern, IBM today said it had reached an agreement to buy data integration company Ascential Software in a deal worth about US$1.1 billion. Big Blue's first major deal since selling off its personal computer division gives it access...

When Matt Chasen's mother called him in tears because she couldn't afford to pay $800 to ship an heirloom dresser across the country, he set out to solve the problem. His solution was the genesis of an innovative online company called uShip. The light bulb moment came when Chasen was driving from Se...

Yahoo apparently has its sights set on the fast-growing legions of small Web sites and blogs as potential advertising venues and is planning a network similar to the one Google uses to populate such sites with advertising. Google has long served small text-only ads to small publishers' sites and ev...

A court has boosted the chances that Japanese Internet company Livedoor will be able to take over one of the country's largest radio broadcasters in a deal that would also give it a stake in a large television network. Livedoor has positioned the move as a way to leverage its Web users and the liste...

The search engine industry is constantly evolving. It seems like every other week there is news of a new announcement -- the latest innovation in search that is sure to be copied within months, or a legal issue that threatens to change the landscape. Search has transitioned from a simplistic entry p...

Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites. In a move being billed as the auction giant's largest expansion outside its core business, eBay said it had opene...

Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce. A slew of new and upgraded technology has been ...

What will Google do next? How will Yahoo counter the move? And how will this impact MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and the scores of smaller players vying to get their share of the search engine revenue pie? Rumors abound about what will come next for major players in search. Some believe Google is preparin...

In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources. "The new Yahoo Small Business Resource Center provid...

IBM's landscape-altering sale of its personal computer business to China-based Lenovo Group has cleared an important hurdle, with the deal found not to pose a threat to national security. The US$1.75 billion sale got the green light from the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United Stat...