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Dunn Pleads Innocent to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges

Former HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn on Wednesday pled not guilty to criminal charges in connection with the corporate spying scandal that swirled around the technology giant earlier this year. Accompanied by her husband, Bill Jahnke, Dunn entered her plea before a Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior...

E-Discovery Amendments: Save Your Old Voice Mail

Save those voice mails. That's the legal takeaway regarding new e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that will become law on December 1, 2006. The amendments make significant changes to the rules of discovery with regard to electronically stored information. For most compan...

AOL Acquires Financial News Search Company

In its fifth acquisition of 2006, AOL on Wednesday said it has purchased a financial news and information search technology company. The Relegence Corporation will now join the AOL family. The Internet division of Time Warner closed the deal to buy out the privately-held Relegence on Monday. Financi...

Sprint Nextel Suffers Fifth Straight Quarter of Losses

Blaming high churn rates and merger-related costs, Sprint-Nextel, the third-largest mobile phone operator, reported its fifth straight quarter of profit losses. Net income from continuing operations declined to US$247 million, or 8 cents a share, from $363 million, or 12 cents, a year ago. Revenues ...

Hackers Defraud Online Brokerages of Millions of Dollars

Government officials have launched investigations into fraud cases that are costing electronic brokerages millions of dollars. Two of the largest e-brokerages are reporting computer hacking incidents in which criminals apparently manipulated client accounts at TD Ameritrade and E-Trade Financial. TD...

ACLU Battles Child Online Protection Act in Federal Court

The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday presented opening arguments in federal district court in its longstanding challenge to an Internet censorship law that was signed by President Clinton in 1998 but has never been enforced. At issue in the case known as "ACLU v. Gonzales" is the Child Onlin...

A Toasty VC Climate for Internet Entrepreneurs

Internet start-ups seeking venture capital support may be in luck, as a second coming of sorts seems to be in full swing for Web-based technology firms, which enjoyed a seemingly endless supply of cash during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. In September alone, General Catalyst Partners invested...

Record Labels Bought YouTube Stakes Before Google Deal

Amid heavy speculation over possible copyright issues, major record labels are vying to profit from Google's acquisition of YouTube -- as allies. Specifically, three of the world's largest music companies -- Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music and Warner Music Group -- quietly negotiated...

Keynote Systems Ranks E-Tailers on Speed, Reliability

Keynote Systems on Wednesday announced new indices tracking best-in-class e-commerce sites. The new indices track the speed and reliability from the end user perspective of 24 leading online retail sites across three categories: apparel, books and music, and electronics. Conducted by Keynote Competi...

The Role of Media Sharing in the Digital Marketing Mix

The rise of digital marketing has opened up a world of opportunity to win customers that goes well beyond search engine optimization, banner ads and link exchanges. This is due in part to the evolution of the Internet, which is sparking creative ideas that leverage new online platforms for guerilla ...

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Become.com CEO Yang: Comparison Search Is Evolving

Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun are hardly strangers to the realm of comparison shopping sites. The dynamic duo founded mySimon.com, which became the largest price comparison shopping site on the Internet, with over 10 million users in 2000. After raising US$30 million in investment capital, mySimon wa...

Microsoft Files Suit Against FairUse4WM Hackers

Facing potentially negative implications for its Zune music service and player, Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against a group of hackers who allegedly infiltrated its digital rights management technology. The software giant claims the defendants gained access to its proprietary source code. ...

MTV Buys Maker of Music-Themed Video Games

Viacom's MTV Networks on Friday announced plans to acquire music gaming company Harmonix Music Systems in a US$175 million cash deal. Under the terms of the deal, Harmonix shareholders may be eligible for incremental earn-out payments through 2008, to the extent that financial results exceed specifi...

HP’s Dunn to Vacate Board Post

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...

HP Under Investigation for Pretexting Tactics

California's attorney general is investigating Hewlett-Packard. The probe comes in the wake of HP's reported surveillance of board members that led to the company's decision not to renominate George A. Keyworth II to his seat on the board. HP said it discovered that he leaked confidential informatio...

Corel Acquires InterVideo in $196 Million Cash Deal

Corel on Monday announced it would acquire InterVideo in an all-cash transaction worth $196 million. InterVideo develops multimedia DVD software that lets users record, edit, author, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs and other devices. InterVideo's 2005 majority interest acquisit...

Microsoft Targets Cybersquatters in Civil Suits

Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains. The software giant filed three lawsuits this week against alleged "cybersquatters" and "typosquatters." ...

Microsoft Adds $16 Billion to Buyback Plan

Microsoft on Friday said it added US$16.2 billion to its ongoing share buyback plan, nearly doubling its repurchase authorization to $36.2 billion through June 30, 2011. The software giant is sitting on a stockpile of cash. Microsoft had $34.16 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 3...

HP Earns $1.38 Billion in Q3, Plans Buyback

Hewlett-Packard, the world's third-largest PC maker, on Wednesday reported third quarter profit gains that beat analyst estimates. The firm also announced a plan to buy back US$6 billion worth of shares. Net income for the world's largest printer maker rose to $1.38 billion, or 48 cents a share, fro...

Google Maps Out Coupon Strategy

In a move to attract more local businesses to its brand, Google on Monday launched a service that allows customers to print out discount coupons for local merchants from Google Maps. The new service targets value-conscious consumers with more than 20,000 coupons supplied by Cox Enterprises' ValPak D...

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