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VeriSign on Monday declared its entrance into the broadband content services market, announcing its US$62 million acquisition of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Kontiki to help establish its presence in the field. VeriSign plans to provide rich digital media over IP networks and has signed a definitive agre...

The Web analytics market is heating up, as evidenced by at least two recent high-profile business deals in this area. Google entered the picture with a successful US$30 million bid for Urchin last spring, and NetIQ sold WebTrends to a group of company executives for more than $90 million. The name o...

Amazon is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVDs. The online retailer is reportedly talking with Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. If the negotiations are success...

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...

Skype has landed in the midst of a semiconductor industry battle between AMD and Intel. AMD, the No. 2 chipmaker, is seeking documents from the VoIP company about its dealings with market leader Intel, according to a Feb. 28 subpoena. Skype, now owned by Internet auction giant eBay, has set up the s...

Yahoo on Monday filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma and a group of former Yahoo employees, alleging the theft of the Internet portal giant's trade secrets. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Santa Clara County state court in California, the employees copied large amount...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday said it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Aduva. Aduva's solution attempts to ease the management of open- and mixed-source server stacks. Aduva's technology competes with products from Levanta, Red Hat, PatchLink and BigFix. Sun was particularly attrac...

Microsoft's rivals on Wednesday banded together to bring a new charge against the software giant to the European Commission: unfair competition. Microsoft "threatens to deny enterprises and individual consumers real choice," the European Committee for Interoperable Systems argued. The ECIS was forme...

Symantec on Tuesday announced that it has completed the acquisition of Relicore, a provider of data center change and configuration management solutions. Relicore's flagship product, Relicore Clarity, automatically discovers, maps and tracks changes to application and server components in real time...

Most electronics consumers had never heard of rootkits before last year's Sony BMG debacle. Now, rootkits have the attention of the U.S. public -- and the U.S. government. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday suggested that a measure outlawing the controversial software may be in order. A...

In the midst of heated competition to attract popular personalities to the satellite radio space, Harpo Radio and XM Satellite Radio on Thursday announced an exclusive, three-year agreement to launch a new channel called "Oprah & Friends." Set to debut in September 2006, it will feature a broad ...

Enterprises today have a number of key questions when it comes to setting up and maintaining an online presence. Some of these concerns include critical Web-related security problems; scalability; and being aware of new online challenges expected in 2006. Who better to ask about these issues than Ak...

As the dust settles on this latest season's holiday shopping data, there is yet one more issue to consider before this time next year: conversions. The recent release of the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research, revealed that consumer satisfac...

Recent research suggests that satisfaction among customers of 40 top retail Web sites dropped over the holiday season. So says the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research. The Index measures the top 40 retailers by revenue and provides a comparis...

Imation on Thursday agreed to acquire Memorex International in an all cash transaction for US$330 million. Contigent on financial performance of the purchased business, Imation could pay an additional sum ranging between $5 million and $45 million over a period of up to three years after close. The ...

Philips Electronics on Thursday announced plans to acquire Lifeline Systems, a personal emergency medical services company. Philips has offered approximiately US$750 million, or $47.75 per share to buy the firm. That's 21 percent higher than Lifeline's closing stock price of $39.49 on Wednesday. Lif...

Google has agreed to acquire Newport Beach, Calif.-based dMarc, which develops digital applications for the radio broadcast industry, for US$102 million in cash. DMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. Its technology is designed to simplify t...

One twentieth of a second. That's about how long it takes for a Web site to make a first impression on an Internet user, according to researchers at a Canadian university, whose findings could have competitive impacts for businesses on the Web. Dr. Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton Univer...

Microsoft Research India announced plans this week to expand its operations over the next 18 months. The company intends to bolster teams in existing research areas and to create a new research group for cryptography and security. "Microsoft Research India continues to identify research areas that a...