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Nielsen Buys IAG to Add More Why to Who, What, When

Nielsen, based in New York and the Netherlands, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase privately held New York-based IAG Research for $225 million. IAG measures consumer engagement with advertisements and product placements across television and the Internet. The company counts some of the la...

Yahoo Aims to Pump Up Ad Volume

On Monday, Yahoo previewed Amp, its new online ad management platform. The platform will allow advertisers to precisely target audiences within geographic, demographic and interest-based categories across a network that includes Yahoo's inventory and that of more than 600 U.S. newspapers within the ...

Sony Pushes Old Movies to Cell Phone Screens

Haven't seen "The Karate Kid" in a while? Soon, AT&T customers will be able to catch it on their mobile phones. On Monday, Sony Pictures Television said it is launching Pix, the first movie network for mobile TV in the U.S. The network, making use of Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology, will be avail...

EPA Probe Bars IBM From Government Contract Bidding

The government has temporarily banned IBM from attaining new contracts with federal agencies while investigators look into interactions between some company workers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees. The EPA issued a notice of temporary suspension related to an agency investigation ...

International Demand Fuels Higher February Chip Sales

Plunging prices in a glutted memory-chip market served as a weight on semiconductor sales worldwide, although sales did increase by 1.5 percent in February, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Fueled by sales of computers and mobile phones outside the U.S., global year-on-year semic...

Hannaford: Malware Caused Massive Data Breach

Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford Bros. in a Boston Globe report Friday confirmed that malware that had been installed on the 271-store chain's servers led to a data breach that compromised as many as 4.2 million debit and credit card accounts. Hannaford told Massachusetts regulators that it found ...

Report: Paying Bills Online Saves Gas, Trees, Water

Pay a bill, save a tree. That, in essence, is the message of a study that the PayItGreen Alliance made public on Tuesday. The alliance, sponsored by the non-profit National Automated Clearinghouse Association, was formed last October to add another consumer inducement -- environmental stewardship --...

Motorola’s Handset Biz to Go It Alone

Having watched its shares lose nearly half of their value in the last year and its cell phone business continue to languish among the also-rans in a crowded field, Motorola will split into two publicly traded companies, separating its mobile devices business from its broadband and mobility solutions...

EA CFO No Longer in the Game

In the midst of its hostile takeover bid for a rival company, video game firm Electronic Arts is losing one of its key executives. EA's chief financial officer, Warren Jenson, is leaving the company and will be replaced shortly, the company said. He has been with EA for six years. The announcement c...

ITC to Hear Prof’s David v. Goliath Patent Case

Only weeks after having won a digital format battle against HD DVD, Sony finds itself entangled in a legal fight over the technology behind Blu-ray. The ITC will hear a case filed by a retired university professor with a 50-year engineering career against Sony, Motorola and more than 25 other compan...

Healthy Centro Sales Fail to Lift Palm

Smartphone maker Palm lost money in the third quarter, even though the company was reporting the strongest product launch in its history. Palm posted a third-quarter loss of $31.5 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with a profit of $11.8 million, or 11 cents per share, in the third quarter of ...

White House Hands Tech Entrepreneur Cybersecurity Reins

The U.S. government is tapping into the private sector to head up a new bureaucracy to help fend off cyber-attacks. The Bush administration is bringing in Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckstrom to head up the National Cyber Security Center, according to news reports. The new center was created in...

EU Links New Broadband Target to Economic Prosperity

In Europe, broadband Internet access is seen as a ticket to economic freedom and prosperity. That's one of the key ideas behind the European Commission's announcement Wednesday of its intention to increase broadband penetration from the current 20 percent to 30 percent across the bloc by 2010. The E...

DirecTV to Dish Out VOD

Cable television's big edge on its satellite rivals may be eroding a bit, if DirecTV's plan to offer on-demand programming works out. On Thursday, DirecTV said it is testing an on-demand service for movies and other TV programming and planning a formal launch of the VOD service by the end of June. D...

EA Gets Hostile in Quest to Take Over Take-Two

Electronic Arts has issued a hostile $2 billion tender offer for rival video game firm Take-Two Interactive Software. The offer represents a 64 percent premium over Take-Two's closing stock price on Feb. 15, the last day of trading before EA issued a revised proposal to the New York-based company. T...

TI, Nokia Dive on Bleak Wireless Outlook

The stock price for Texas Instruments dropped nearly 6 percent -- and sent a minor shock wave through its biggest customer's stock -- on news that the company had lowered its profit forecast on Monday. Dallas-based TI, which supplies chips to about half the wireless handsets worldwide, saw its share...

Infineon Unloads HDD Biz to LSI

A behemoth on the semiconductor scene just got a little bigger. Chip manufacturer LSI has acquired the hard disk drive business of Germany-based Infineon Technologies for an undisclosed amount. The buyout, announced Monday, came a little less than a year after the former LSI Logic had acquired Agere...

CBS, AOL Stream Together in Radio Deal

CBS Radio is hoping to step up its Internet presence through a deal it announced Friday with AOL. CBS, the second-largest radio broadcaster in the U.S., plans to offer advertising-supported streams from 150 online radio stations to listeners free of charge over AOL's online radio portal. CBS Radio, ...

Ziff Davis Turns to Chapter 11 to Ease Debt Load

Ziff Davis Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The publisher of technology and video game magazines -- it produces online and print versions of PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly and 15 Web sites, including its 1UP Network video-game information sites -- cited falling advert...

Are Women the Answer for Ask.com?

Ask.com is looking to women for answers. The 12-year-old search engine is reportedly narrowing its focus to appeal to married women, mostly in the South and Midwest, in its first major move under the direction of new CEO Jim Safka. Ask.com is trimming 40 jobs, according to published reports, as its ...

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