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Yahoo's 20-year-old logo is set to change next month with the unveiling of a new graphic "that's more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences," said Chief Marketing Officer Kathy Savitt. Wednesday marked Day 1 of a rebranding campaign that will treat users to a new look every day, le...

News that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is acquiring The Washington Post, one of the top newspapers in the U.S., shook the publishing world on Monday. He is buying the paper for $250 million in cash. Bezos is making the acquisition as an individual -- the Post is not to be part of Amazon's vast array of pro...

Just two days after a key part of Michael Dell's last offer was roundly rejected, the attempted buyout of his company on Friday took an unexpected turn. Specifically, Dell secured a significant voting concession from the special committee set up by the board of directors in exchange for upping the t...

Hard on the heels of its recent venture into mobile gaming, Facebook on Wednesday debuted its latest social networking innovation: embedded posts, a feature that allows users to add public posts from Facebook to their blog or website. Embedded posts can be most any type of content seen on Facebook, ...

Windows Phone 8 users with a penchant for posting photos on Instagram have been out of luck in more ways than one recently. Not only is there no native Instagram Windows Phone app, forcing users to resort to third-party apps instead, but this week, users of those outside apps began seeing their Inst...

The Business Software Alliance reportedly is pushing to overturn the U.S. International Trade Commission's ban against older iPhones and iPads, maintaining that it would set a dangerous precedent. When the ITC makes a decision to ban a particular product for import into the U.S., it is fast and usua...

Microsoft has slashed the price of its Surface RT by some 30 percent, or $150, putting the price of the tablet now at approximately $350, depending on the version. The price cut follows hard on the heels of news that the company will undergo a reorganization, in part to bolster its still-flagging ef...

In an effort to catch up with their data-swamped online counterparts, brick-and-mortar retailers are turning to a new tool to help them better monitor shoppers and maximize sales: shoppers' cell phones. Approaches include tracking shoppers as they move about the store using their phones' connection ...

Verizon may owe Apple between $12 billion and $14 billion for not selling as many iPhones as it promised to this year, according to two analyst reports revealed Thursday. Verizon committed to buy $23.5 billion worth of iPhones this year -- a number that is more than twice what it sold in 2012 -- le...

Barnes & Noble's board of directors on Monday announced changes in the company's executive ranks that extend all the way to the top echelon. First and foremost, William Lynch has resigned as CEO and director effective immediately. In addition, former CFO Michael Huseby has been appointed CEO of ...

Barnes & Noble's board of directors on Monday announced changes in the company's executive ranks that extend all the way to the top echelon. First and foremost, William Lynch has resigned as CEO and director effective immediately. In addition, former CFO Michael Huseby has been appointed CEO of ...

Things are looking better and better for Michael Dell's proposed $24.4 billion leveraged buyout offer for the company he founded. Following hard on the heels of repeated disapprovals of a competing offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, a special committee of Dell's board of directors announced...

Google Glass has generated a more or less steady stream of privacy criticisms and concerns since it was first announced, but the company's latest effort to satisfy critics has apparently fallen short. Specifically, Google's recent response to a letter sent in May by eight members of the Bipartisan...

Remember Bebo? In its heyday, five or six years ago, the social networking site showed enough promise to be considered a possible rival to then-dominant MySpace -- and to pull in an $850 million purchase price when it was acquired by AOL. What a difference a few years make. Fast forward to 2013, and...

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," as the old saying goes, and this week Oracle took steps to do just that. Specifically, the database giant inked partnership deals with longtime competitors Microsoft and Salesforce.com in a bid to expand its reach in cloud computing. Announced on Mo...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been nothing if not persistent in his efforts to keep Michael Dell from rebuilding his computer business as a private company, but on Monday Icahn's stock repurchase proposal got the thumbs-down again. A special committee of Dell's board of directors, formed to we...

Oracle's stock slumped Friday in response to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report. Shares closed the day at $30.14, down 9.26 percent. Oracle reported its fiscal 2013 Q4 GAAP total revenue as unchanged at $10.9 billion; however, analysts had been expecting about $11.12 billion. New softwar...

Microsoft and Nokia were recently in advanced negotiations about a possible purchase deal, but the negotiations ultimately broke down on the topic of price, according to reports. Little is known about the talks; anonymous sources say they happened as recently as this month and focused on Nokia's dev...

Google has settled the class-action shareholder lawsuit that had been blocking a stock split it originally announced last year, the company said Monday, paving the way for it to move forward with the split as planned. The suit's settlement was an eleventh-hour development in this 14-month storyline,...

In the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks to monitor users, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, on Friday reported that for the six months ending December ...