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Broadcom Corp. said Monday it agreed to acquire Dune Networks Inc. , a semiconductor supplier of networking devices, for about $178 million.

TechCrunch leader Michael Arrington was ready to debut a tablet computing device, the CrunchPad , two weeks ago.

Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and Kenzo - all of which are owned by luxury group LVMH.

Don't you hate it when people say, "I told you so"? Well, I told you so - I warned you, more than once, about what you post on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and all those other social networking sites.

Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, and satellite navigation software and location-based services provider GeoLife Limited announced an agreement under which Tele Atlas supplies digital maps and location content on Navmii, Geolife's turn-by-turn navigation ...

Those who have been wondering how Twitter will ever sustain itself can end their speculations, for the announcement has been made in Japan, which is most likely the test market.

The forum is meant to help devise ways to combat double-digit unemployment. The White House said there would be approximately 130 attendees at the jobs forum ranging from small business owners to academics.

As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the "Twelve Scams of Christmas" - the twelve most dangerous online scams that computer users should be cautious of this holiday season.

San Jose residents will have an opportunity to work up an appetite for Thanksgiving dinner and also help three charities by participating in a Turkey Trot in downtown San Jose this morning.

Sigma Designs , a leader in networked home entertainment silicon solutions, announced today that it will report its fiscal third quarter 2010 financial results following the close of regular trading on Wednesday, December 2, 2009.

Green Packet Berhad , a leading developer of next generation mobile broadband and networking solutions, announced that it has secured three separate deals with Eurasian WiMAX Operators for the supply of its award-winning WiMAX modems.

The U.S online retail sector delivered a strong comeback on Black Friday 2009 compared to the same period last year, according to Coremetrics , the leader in marketing optimization.

An Ontario court has dismissed an appeal from a union representing current Nortel Networks workers, as well as laid off and retired employees who are seeking payments from the insolvent company.

A research firm says shoppers spent only slightly more in stores this Black Friday than they did last year.

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 42 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's brain.

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, representing investors of SunPower Corporation , has filed a class action lawsuit in United States District Court on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased SunPower securities between April 17, 2008 and November 16, 2009, inclusive .

Not many of us can say we started riding a motorcycle at age 103 or that we've had the same hobby for 99 years.

The Kudelski Group announced today that it has closed the subsequent offering period of its tender offer to acquire Class A shares of OpenTV Corp.

The economy is still weak but markets are functioning and buyers are buying and sellers are selling.

Headset maker Plantronics Inc. said Friday it will repurchase up to 1 million shares.

By Arnold Zafra Posted on November 26, 2009 If you are anywhere in Times Square A on Black Friday, perhaps after long hours of digging through those electronic stores in search of the best Black Friday deal, you might want to check Google's latest search experiment - Google search by voice .

This blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send men to space.

USTesla Motors-Factory, 1st Ld,0134 Downey, Calif., council approves Tesla car factory Eds: APNewsNow.

BAE Systems PLC, the world's No. 2 defense contractor, said Thursday that it is planning to axe around 640 jobs because of an expected downturn in its workload.

Shares of Blue Coat Systems Inc. rose Wednesday after the security hardware and software maker reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and third-quarter earnings expectations.

Amazon.com workers handle shipping for online orders. Online retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season - even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales.

THE Iraqi Government launched an official YouTube channel today, joining the White House, Britain's Royal Family, the Pope and others on the Google-owned video-sharing site.

LinkedIn, the world's biggest professional social network, will probably pursue an initial public offering some time but not in the near future, co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman told Reuters.

Deals with Google and Virgin Media took the spotlight away from TiVo's fiscal third-quarter loss Wednesday, as analysts said the company stands to benefit from the new agreements.

GOOGLE executives could be jailed over a video showing a teen with Down's Syndrome being bullied.

Nov. 25 -- Facebook Inc., the world's biggest social-networking site, introduced a dual-class stock structure to let current shareholders hold onto voting control.

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

NVIDIA announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected all 17 claims in three Rambus patents that the company had asserted against the GPU maker in the International Trade Comission .

U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company.

Tags: Microsoft Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of 2009.

Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

Two adjacent Southern California cities have been competing for the factory where Tesla Motors will build its all-electric 2012 Model S luxury sports sedan .

Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.

Networking gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent as hefty costs offset a surge in revenue, but reiterated its guidance for fiscal 2010.

Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Chrome OS and Android are likely to merge at some point, say reports.

Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.

The Microsoft logo hangs from a window during the grand opening of a retail store in Arizona.

The outage is made worse for the online tat bazaar because it is moving away from mom'n'pop traders to more professional sellers who expect better service, in exchange for their fees.

Google Voice was GrandCentral before Google acquired that company back in 2007. Like most Google acquisitions it took a long time to fully rebuild the service on Google's infrastructure, and even today Google Voice is still in private beta.

Roku owners already have access to Netflix , Amazon Video On Demand and MLB.tv , but now the set-top box is about to get a lot more interesting.

Shares of Verigy Ltd. rose Friday after the maker of chip testing equipment turned in a stronger-than-expected performance in the fourth quarter.

Actor Dwayne Johnson, usually known for his action and comedic film roles, takes to the stars as an astronaut in a new animated feature that brings important messages about the importance of space exploration and education to those of us here on Earth.

TechCrunch reports a Google Chrome OS image for VMware has been published on BitTorrent.

'm at TechCrunch's Real-Time CrunchUp, an interesting conference in San Francisco on the booming subject of Web sites and services that move just as fast as the rest of the world does-Twitter, some aspects of Facebook, and lots more.

Robotic surgical device maker Intuitive Surgical Inc. said Friday its da Vinci S system received regulatory approval in Japan.

Skype CEO Josh Silverman can't stop smiling in this video interview we recorded in Menlo Park this morning.

Shares of Aruba Networks Inc. fell Friday after the company reported fiscal first-quarter results above analyst expectations, but it may not have been as much of a beat as Wall Street hoped.

Philanthropist and former software company executive Doug Burgum is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award.

Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good.

Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign countries, according to third-quarter lobbying reports.

A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement .

European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Nov. 20 -- The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S. insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in 2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., the psychologist said in a deposition.

Looks like VCs are really loosening their wallets. College textbook rental service Chegg says it has raised a stupendous $57 million in a fourth round of funding.

Chicago - Got a swine flu question? Get an answer during a live Facebook chat offered by Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.

The former head of San Francisco software company is being held without bail after a federal grand jury indicted him on embezzlement charges.

The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid and "certain affiliated parties", the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz .

Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.

"Unique" is one of the most overused words in tech, but it's the only way to describe Livescribe's Pulse smartpen .

Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners said Wednesday that a media report indicating that it is interested in buying the men's magazine publisher are untrue.

Influential ... high marks for putting power into the hands of ordinary people. The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 internet moments of the decade.

But with Windows Mobile 7 set to debut in 2010, Microsoft isn't giving up on the smartphone OS market.

Alright, so we've got good news and bad news. First off, the good news. TechCrunch has been notified that Google is planning a Chrome OS event for Thursday.

We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco.

Shares of Fortinet Inc. rose sharply in the company's first day of trading on the Nasdaq, another sign that the recently moribund IPO market is coming back to life.The network security provider priced its initial public offering of 12.5 million shares at $12.50 each, above the expected range of $9 to $11 apiece.Investors bid shares up $4.42, or 35 ...

Today, TechCrunch broke some rumors that, if true, mean two things. First, that an honest-to-goodness Google phone is coming.

Apple's line of laptops ranked fourth in a multi-year reliability survey of nine notebook makers, according to a study of 30,000 portable computers published today by a company that provides after-sale warranties.

Design and engineering software maker Autodesk Inc. said Tuesday its business looks "increasingly stable" despite posting a sharp drop in third-quarter profit.

Salesforce.com Inc. on Tuesday posted a sharp gain in fiscal third-quarter profit, while sales rose 20% as the provider of Internet-hosted business software continued to accumulate subscribers.

Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977544 in regard to public reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the company's implementation of the Server Message Block 2 protocol that only affects Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 .

Applied Materials Inc. said Tuesday it offered to buy Semitool Inc. for $364 million in cash, a move the company says will broaden its portfolio of chip manufacturing equipment.

Thomson Reuters Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy Sabrix Inc., a company that makes tax software.

Shares of Poniard Pharmaceuticals Inc. crashed Monday after the company said its cancer drug picoplatin missed its goal in a clinical trial.

Nov. 16 -- Bloomberg's Michele Steele reports on the outlook for Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site.

Last January, on the eve of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage and announced his company would manage the search queries and advertising inventory on the home screen, or deck, of Verizon phones in a multi-year deal reportedly worth $600 million.

Shares of Playboy Enterprises Inc. soared Thursday on a report that the men's magazine publisher is in talks to sell its business to Iconix Brand Group Inc.

Cisco Systems on Monday increased its bid for Norway's Tandberg to 19 billion Norwegian kroner , as the U.S. networks giant seeks to overcome resistance from shareholders of the Norwegian videoconferencing company.

More than four out of every five supercomputers on the TOP500 list are powered by Intel processors.

The former boss of Boots is leading a A 1.5 billion bid for Matalan by the owner of discount chain Poundland, according to reports.

Advanced Micro Devices is not the only large Intel competitor to rail against Intel's alleged strong-arm tactics.

In this Jan. 12, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. Citigroup Inc.

"SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet" is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.

NEW YORK -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

Oculus Innovative Sciences' Development Partner, Bayer Animal Health, Receives Regulatory Approvals to Market Microcyn -Based Vetericyn Animal Healthcare Products in China and Taiwan Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc.

Agilent Technologies Inc. on Friday reported fourth-quarter net income of $25 million, or 7 cents a share, down from $231 million, or 64 cents a share in the same period last year.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: J.C. Penney Co., up $1.82 at $31.21 The department store retailer posted a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings because of a big expense for its pension plan.

Privacy Swiss watchdog to sue Google Street View The main street of Grindelwald is shown on a Google employee's mobile device as he poses for photographers on the launch of the Google Street View application at Google office in Zurich August 18, 2009.

Nortel Networks says it has completed the $1.13 billion sale of its wireless network business to LM Ericsson of Sweden but is allowing more time for bids in an auction for its optical networking and carrier ethernet units.

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark will join the advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation , the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia .

Silicon Storage Technology Inc. said Friday it has agreed to be acquired by Technology Resource Holdings Inc.

Did you hear that collective nerdgasm 10 minutes ago? Yeah, that was because of a new rumor that Google Chrome OS will be available for download soon.

Nov. 12 -- Porter Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital Partners LLC, talk with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about Walt Disney Co.

Dell Inc. on Friday officially announced it will enter the wireless business before the end of 2009, starting with the sale of its new Mini 3 smartphone in China and Brazil.

Bain Capital is finalizing a roughly 100 billion yen deal to buy Japanese telemarketer Bellsystem24 from Citigroup Inc, three sources familiar with the matter said, in the largest buyout by a foreign private equity firm in Japan in nearly two years.

Corel's building on Carling Avenue. San Francisco-based private equity firm Vector Capital has increased its offer to buy out the other shareholders of Corel Corp.

Google has a new VOIP client to help improve Google Voice. Google confirmed its intention to acquire Gizmo5, an Internet telephony company, with plans to merge the group into the Google Voice team.

Playboy Enterprises Inc. , the mena s magazine publisher, is in talks to sell itself to Iconix Brand Group Inc.

Nov. 11 -- Pete Flint, chief executive officer of Trulia Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about the outlook for the U.S. housing market.

Web surfing is becoming more like channel surfing as television shows, movies and music videos pour onto the Internet.

This week, Google expanded its Flu Trends website to include the a oeflu shot findera that allows people in search of either an H1N1 flu vaccine or seasonal flu vaccine to easily find nearby locations offering the vaccines.

Advanced Micro Devices said it expects its chip design business, the backbone of the company, to be profitable next year, adding more fuel to hopes that the technology sector is rebounding.

Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.

In this Jan. 30, 2009 file photo, Applied Materials Inc. CEO Michael Splinter speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Nov. 11 -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said his company's $750 million purchase of AdMob Inc.

Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.

Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

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.

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced By Elizabeth Montalbano When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

Windows 7 has been a bigger seller than its predecessor, Windows Vista , new industry figures show.

Adobe has introduced Photoshop.com Mobile as an application for mobile phones running the Android operating system.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages.

Technology-services provider Sapient Corp. said Thursday that third-quarter profits plunged by two-thirds, partly due to special charges, and the CEO said customers were growing more confident in business prospects.

Graphics firm Nvidia appears to have decided to develop a sense of humor and mock the mighty Intel with a web site it appears to sponsor called intelsinsides .

EBay says investors buying majority of Skype agreed to settle legal skirmish with Skype's founders.

A bright forecast from Cisco Systems and upbeat economic news sent stocks soaring Thursday and propelled the Dow Jones industrials back above 10,000. The rally, coming a day before the government's October employment report, showed that investors are regaining their optimism about an economic recovery.

Nov. 5 -- Zach Nelson, chief executive officer of NetSuite Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox about the outlook for company growth.

Sometimes it seems like my industry is writing its own obituary. We flinch every time another report of falling newspaper circulation comes out, as we saw again this week with the report of a 10.7 percent drop in newspaper subscriptions this year.

MANAGING IT NEEDS: George Paul , Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems, Rajeev Mittal , Group Director-Small and Medium Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation India, and Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Group, at a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday.

Article:Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite:/g/a/2009/11/04/urnidgns002570F3005978D88525766400571324.DTL Article:Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite:/g/a/2009/11/04/urnidgns002570F3005978D88525766400571324.DTL 09:07 PST -- Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google 's new ...

Google today launched a new service for Google account holders called Google Dashboard.

A late-day slump left stocks mixed Wednesday as investors couldn't hold on to their optimism after the Federal Reserve gave an encouraging assessment of the economy.

Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture.

Apple has officially confirmed reports from last week and announced today that the iTunes App Store now has 100,000 applications available for download.

Cisco Systems Inc. is forecasting revenue growth for the first time in a year, offering further evidence that orders are rising again after passing what CEO John Chambers called a "tipping point" in the downturn this summer.

New York's attorney general hit Intel Corp. with an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday, claiming the company used "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate the market for computer microprocessors.

Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

Cisco Systems took another step to expand its computer hardware businesses on Tuesday by forming a broad partnership with EMC , a maker of storage equipment and software.

Today is the first day of PayPal's much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company's first dedicated developer conference.

Best Buy's move into digital movies will closely hew to the paths broken by Netflix, Blockbuster and other competitors, using a branded movie service available through Web-connected Blu-ray players and other devices made by multiple manufacturers.

Reid Hoffman, the founder and chairman of popular professional networking site LinkedIn, is joining venture firm Greylock Partners as an investing partner.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr.

Hill, Michael - "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," by Ken Auletta is shown.

Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it will buy the set-top box business of DVN Ltd., a digital cable technology company in China, for up to $44.5 million.

Nov. 2 -- Jeanne Branthover, managing director at Boyden Global Executive Search Ltd., talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about the outlook for executive jobs in the financial industry.

Online auction house eBay says it has begun removing several items put up for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise funds for the man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider.

Mobile unified communications vendor DiVitas Networks has added iPhone, BlackBerry and Android to the set of platforms it is supporting with software to access desk-phone and presence features on cell phones.

Hector Ruiz, one of the most respected statesmen in the chip industry, had his reputation tarnished last week after he was identified by unnamed sources for tipping off Galleon-related traders who used the information to make illegal insider trades.

A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday corporate spending on information technology will not recover to levels seen in recent years before the global economic slowdown.

Source: Secure Computing A U.S. District Court in San Jose has awarded Facebook US$711 million for being victimised by a prolific spammer.

Screenshot from Revolico.com home page, a craigslist-like website which was beginning to be popular in Cuba and is now being filtered by government censorship.

The streaming media player points to cost-cutting and a new music search arrangement with Google.

Redmond has decided that its Microsoft Office Accounting product just isn't outputting the right numbers anymore.

Facebook Inc. is tapping virtual farmers, mafia dons and online pets to generate cash from the social- networking Web site's 300 million users.

The results come as the company pushes its beyond its historic focus on consumers and small and medium businesses, targeting larger businesses and the federal government, both of which are showing increased interested in the kind of hosted VoIP services that 8x8 offers.