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Lawmakers have crafted a compromise on a bill that would extend controversial eavesdropping legislation and add provisions meant to protect telecommunications companies from private lawsuits, including several already under way. Ending months of negotiations, the House of Representatives on Friday p...

Many e-commerce companies have boosted their fortunes by expanding their markets beyond the United States. Avail Intelligence is hoping to help such merchants boost profits and sales by doing the reverse. The move comes as e-commerce growth begins to slow, a function of the sheer size of the market ...

In a reminder that investors remain hungry for chances to back social networking firms, LinkedIn announced it has closed a fourth round of funding worth $53 million. The investment places a valuation of "slightly over $1 billion" on the firm, which bills itself as a professional and business-focused...

Seeking to protect its own business model, The Associated Press is hoping to clarify what constitutes fair use of the content is publishes online, with plans to lay out guidelines for bloggers on how much content they can quote. The AP, which bills itself as the world's largest and oldest news-gathe...

The long-awaited merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio may be on the cusp of winning approval, with the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission now saying he is on board with letting it go forward. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will propose allowing the merger to proceed, but...

Talks have officially broken down between Yahoo and Microsoft over a potential merger. Instead, Yahoo has struck a partnership to have Google handle some of its search advertising sales. The two firms met on June 8 at a private airport in Silicon Valley, and Microsoft representatives made it clear t...

The ground battle in the proxy war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo has begun in earnest, with Yahoo directly urging shareholders to back the board's slate of directors and ignore Icahn's pleas for change. Yahoo filed a copy of the proxy solicitation notice it sent to shareholders with the Securities an...

Signaling JetBlue's belief that travelers want to stay connected at all times, its LiveTV unit has agreed to buy Verizon's Airfone business, a move that will enable the discount carrier to offer a bundle of communications services during flight. The handover is not expected to be completed until Jan...

T-Mobile has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, saying the chain is causing the carrier financial harm by giving away WiFi access on its networking infrastructure. T-Mobile is claiming that Starbucks engaged in "willful breach of contract and unfair competition" by launching a free WiFi promotion wi...

Mukesh Chatter is no stranger to startups. In 1997, he founded Nexabit Networks, a high-speed switch and router maker he sold to Lucent Technologies. He later founded Axiowave Networks. His latest, project, MoneyAisle.com, however, is different, in part because of the inspiration that got it started...

The Federal Trade Commission has started a formal inquiry into the pricing practices of leading chipmaker Intel, a move that rival Advanced Micro Devices has long requested. The FTC recently opened the formal investigation by issuing subpoenas to Intel and AMD, as well as other parties, including th...

Take-Two Interactive's blockbuster second quarter -- powered by strong early sales of "Grand Theft Auto IV" -- may have implications for the ongoing efforts of EA to acquire its main competitor. "Grand Theft Auto IV" set records as the best-selling entertainment product ever, Take-Two said, with 6 m...

In a move aimed at keeping its customers connected, E*Trade on Thursday launched a mobile service customized for Research in Motion's BlackBerry device. E*Trade Mobile Pro will offer the same user interface, security features and banking and trading services as the E*Trade Web site exclusively on Bl...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth $28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth $28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private...

Verizon Wireless confirmed Thursday that it will buy Alltel Wireless in a deal worth $28.1 billion, one that will help it reach new markets and push it ahead of AT&T as the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The move comes just a year after a group of private equity players took Alltel private...

Carl Icahn's bid to change the corporate direction at Yahoo -- specifically to push it into the arms of Microsoft -- got an unexpected boost this week when a judge ordered court documents in a shareholder lawsuit unsealed. The revelations and accusations in those papers, including that Yahoo turned ...

A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Yahoo could not keep secret the details of an investors' lawsuit over its spurning of Microsoft's acquisition efforts. The complaint alleges that Yahoo turned away a $40 per share offer to be acquired by Microsoft in 2007 -- months before the software company went ...

Seeking to further build on its hosted search and cloud computing efforts, Google on Tuesday launched an updated -- and renamed -- version of its hosted business site search solution. The updated version of Google Site Search -- the product was formerly known as "Custom Search Business Edition" -- i...

China's telecommunications marketplace will undergo a massive transformation after China Unicom agreed to buy China Netcom Group for $23.9 billion in stock and sell its own mobile division in a side deal worth another $16 billion. The details of the series of deals have been awaited for more than a ...