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Logitech International SA, a maker of mice, webcams and other computer peripherals, said Tuesday it agreed to buy video conferencing company LifeSize Communications for $405 million.

The Silicon Valley location of Adobe is seen in San Jose, California, April, 2000.

Corporate tools take note: You can tell Twitter exactly what you're doing, and it'll tell LinkedIn too.

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance.

Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, said Monday it will sell three series of senior unsecured notes worth a total of $5 billion.

In this June 26, 2007 file photo, the exterior of Oracle Corp. headquarters in Redwood City, Calif.

Google is to buy smartphone ad specialty firm AdMob in a $750m deal, to be paid for in shares.

Microsoft is emphasizing the potentially money-saving features of Exchange 2010, the latest revamp of its e-mail application officially released Monday at its TechEd European customer conference in Berlin.

A social networking site has been fined $500,000 and told to overhaul its practices following charges it tricked members into providing personal details to lure new members and send out tens of millions of spam emails.

As its packaged video games business lags, Electronic Arts Inc. has snapped up Playfish Inc., the creator of popular social networking games such as "Who Has the Biggest Brain" and "Pet Society," for $275 million in cash.

EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.

Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.

I have a rule about business meetings. When someone's elevator pitch includes the explanatory phrase, "We're going to be Google for __________." I always respond by asking, "What are you going to do when Google decides to become Google for ___________?" Invariably the pitch-person quickly answers, "Google's not going into this, it's not their ...

Northrop Grumman plans to sell its advisory services business TASC Inc. to private equity firm General Atlantic LLC and affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy's new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers.

SonicWALL, Inc. , a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the company is working closely with ConnectWise towards deeper integration between the SonicWALL Global Management System and ConnectWise Professional Services Automation Software.

Virus Bulletin staff tested FortiMail among 13 other anti-spam products for detection rates and the number of false positives.

Advisers to a small band of shareholders in Norwegian video conferencing company Tandberg ASA added their voices to calls for suitor Cisco Systems Inc to up its $3 billion bid, ahead of a Monday offer deadline.

Applied Materials , Inc., the leading supplier of equipment and services to the solar photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets, including the intellectual property, of Advent Solar, Inc.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc., a development-stage biotechnology company, said late Thursday its third-quarter loss widened on higher research, development, and interest expenses.