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Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure ...

Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54 ...

Radio giant Clear Channel Communications warned Thursday that it cannot estimate when its planned sale to a private equity consortium may be closed ...

Linux software maker Red Hat saw its stock move briskly higher Friday as investors digested a strong earnings performance and an optimistic outlook ...

In a bid to boost confidence in the reliability of its cloud computing initiative, Amazon Web Services on Thursday launched functionality that allows users to have static IP, or Internet protocol, addresses ...

After months of battling over the extent to which Comcast was blocking user access to the peer-to-peer file-sharing serviceBitTorrent, the two companies said Thursday they would work together to craft solutions to ensure full access ...

Yahoo shares moved higher by more than 3 percent Tuesday after an analyst upgraded the stock, suggesting that Microsoft was likely to sweeten its offer for the Web portal ...

Google has quietly unveiled a search-within-a-site feature on its main Web search engine, giving users the ability to refine searches before going to a merchant or publisher's page ...

Opening a new front in his yearlong push to prompt major changes at the top U.S. mobile phone maker, activist investor Carl Icahn is suing Motorola, asking a court to force the company to give him access to strategic plans and other documents ...

The Internet has become the ultimate democracy in many ways, leveling the publishing playing field for writers with blogging software, allowing musical acts to distribute music without a record label and giving video producers outlets such as YouTube. With e-commerce outlets such as eBay, anyone can sell virtually anything ...

The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) filed eight more lawsuits against eBay sellers the group says are hawking pirated versions of software from Adobe, bringing to 17 the number of suits it filed so far this year ...

Verizon Wireless detailed its plans to open part of its network to third-party devices Wednesday, saying the carrier could begin certifying devices within weeks and that the open portion of its network could be in operation by the second half of this year ...

About eight months after former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of selling stock based on inside information he was also shielding from the public, a federal appeals panel overturned the conviction Monday, clearing the way for Nacchio to be tried again before a new judge ...

In a bid to cut out the middleman and drive its own Web traffic, eBay said Monday it would launch a partner network that will replace affiliate relationships the auction site has long relied on to get users to its site ...

Software maker BMC will buy data center automation firm BladeLogic in a move that could help it fend off incursions into its core market from rivals such as EMC and IBM ...

Microsoft announced it will buy advertising management solutions provider Rapt, moving to help smaller online publishers cash in on the growth of online ads just a day after Google launched a service to do the same thing ...

Executives from Microsoft and Yahoo reportedly met face-to-face earlier this week but apparently did not make significant progress on a deal for the software giant to purchase the struggling Web portal ...

In an early sign of the expanded presence Google intends to have in the online ad world now that it has closed on DoubleClick, the search giant Thursday launched a Web advertising management tool aimed at smaller publishers ...

Time Warner's AOL will buy the social network Bebo for US$850 million in cash, acquiring a worldwide user base of 40 million as well as a developer-friendly platform ...

TiVo and Google have struck a deal that will enable the digital video recorder maker's users to watch Web-based YouTube videos on their television sets ...