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A firestorm of fury has erupted over behavioral tracking -- the tracking of consumers online by marketing companies and advertisers to serve them up with targeted advertisements when they're on the Web. Both consumer organizations and trade and industry groups have responded to the Federal Trade Com...

Microsoft has leapt into the brawl surrounding a recent proposal by the Federal Trade Commission to tighten restrictions on online advertising, responding with its own five-tiered plan for self-regulation. In December, the FTC released a set of proposed principles to "guide the development of self-r...

A few short months after their last joint venture to build a nationwide wireless network based on WiMax tanked, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are at it again. This time, they are holding talks with various partners, and reports are that they are trying to raise $3 billion for the project. The WiMax st...

The wireless spectrum auction is over and the big boys have won the day -- America's two biggest carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, shelled out a total of more than $16 billion for tons of spectrum. AT&T, America's largest wireless carrier, has to dig deep to pay the $6.64 billion it owes,...

Sweden, long the home of Internet pirates, may not be a safe haven for them any more. The Swedish government is working on legislation that will force Internet service providers to disclose IP addresses used for illegal file-sharing to the legal owners of those rights. However, the owners of the rig...

Every time you go online, you leave electronic footprints -- and someone is following them. When you display a page, enter a search query, play a video or click on an ad online, that information is logged by the servers of the companies that own the site or serve the video or ad or search results. T...

German police raided 51 booths of companies suspected of showing pirated products at electronics show CeBIT 2008, which runs through Sunday in Hannover, Germany. More than 180 police and customs officials participated in the swoop. They removed 68 cartons filled with devices, documents and advertisi...

Semiconductor giant Intel has lowered its profitability forecast, sending stock prices tumbling across the board. The company cut its first-quarter gross margin forecast from 56 percent to 54 percent "due to lower than expected prices for NAND flash memory chips," Intel said. All other expectations ...

The European Union has slapped Microsoft with a record $1.35 billion fine. "Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the Commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an antitrust decision," said European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. $1.35 billion i...

The European Union is looking at Microsoft's vow to commit to openness and interoperability with a jaundiced eye. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, will welcome "any move towards genuine interoperability," it said, while pointing out that Microsoft had made "at least four similar s...

Confusion is swirling around Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. After having been twice rebuffed, Microsoft reportedly is planning to authorize a proxy fight this week. Meanwhile, institutional shareholders are about to lock horns over whether Microsoft should up its bid of $31 a share for Yahoo. Then there...

In a move that further crowds an already over-served market, four newspaper giants -- New York Times, Hearst, Gannett and Tribune -- have created a new online advertising partnership. Their new venture, QuadrantOne, will be headquartered in Chicago. Its interim CEO is Dana Hayes, Jr., who was named ...

The latest rumors buzzing around beleaguered Yahoo is that it is looking to restart merger talks with AOL, and might look at Google or Disney -- anyone but Microsoft. According to the Times of London, Yahoo and its team of advisers from investment banks Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. have been evalu...

Despite its problems, Yahoo is playing it cool when it comes to Microsoft's bid of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, even though the offer was 62 percent higher than its Jan. 31 closing price of $19.18 a share. Yahoo is "thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives," CEO Jer...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

The FCC has approved AT&T's purchase of spectrum from Aloha Partners in a deal worth $2.5 billion. It comes with a rider -- Aloha qualified for 35 percent bidding credits for most of its licenses, while AT&T does not, so Aloha has to reimburse the FCC the amount of the bidding credit plus in...

For weeks, the war between Motorola and maverick investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns nearly 3 percent of the company's shares and last year waged a proxy war against its board of directors, has been escalating. On Thursday, Motorola announced that it would explore structural and strat...