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Japan-based Toshiba reported a 95 percent drop in profit in the January-March fiscal fourth quarter, blaming its loss in the high-definition format war that pitted its HD DVD format against Sony's Blu-ray ...

Shares of Motorola tumbled as the company reported a first-quarter loss on Thursday, based largely on lean mobile phone sales and an eroding share of the competitive sector ...

Subscribers toMicrosoft's defunct MSN Music service will lose access to songs they purchased from the store in a few months ...

Big business likely will be spending US$4.6 billion a year on Web. 2.0 technologies by 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based network security company Blue Coat Systems has reached an agreement to purchase Cupertino, Calif.-based bandwidth management company Packeteer for approximately US$268 million, or $7.10 per share -- a 15 percent premium on Packeteer's closing price Friday of $6.18 ...

Take-Two Interactive Software on Friday slammed Electronic Arts' lower bid for the company. EA on Thursday decreased its offer by 26 cents per share after Take-Two shareholders voted more shares for its top management, ZelnickMedia, at their annual meeting. EA also extended its tender offer by a month ...

Sales of personal computers continued their growth trends in the first quarter despite the U.S. economic slowdown, according to studies released simultaneously by the Gartner and IDC research firms ...

eBay is killing off the part of its site that allows users to place bids on items up for sale at live auctions. The company will no longer offer eBay Live Auctions after Dec. 31 ...

Hard drive maker Seagate Technology is taking solid state drive manufacturer STEC to court over patent infringement ...

Phil Hester has exited the chief technology officer post at Advanced Micro Devices, according to reports, and there won't be a replacement ...

Navigation device maker TomTom reportedly hasn't offered any remedies to the European Commission's antitrust worries over its bid of more than US$4 billion to take over the digital map firm Tele Atlas. The commission's deadline to rule on the deal is May 21 ...

Spurned in an earlier buyout attempt, data storage vendor EMC came back with a US$213 million offer that Iomega accepted Tuesday ...

Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman ...

Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman ...

Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman ...

Amid a barrage of troublesome economic reports, a study released Tuesday suggests online sales are expected to take a dramatic turn upward in 2008 ...

The European Union, as a bloc, may be backing Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) as its preferred mobile TV technology, but whether European consumers embrace that platform remains to be seen ...

The Nielsen Co., based in New York and the Netherlands, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase privately held New York-based IAG Research for US$225 million ...

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 Newspaper Consortium, the company said ...

Yahoo has launched its next-generation mobile search service and also appears determined to get a jump on competitors by making it readily available to third-party developers ...