Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than ...

BitTorrent has slammed a report in The Register that suggests a planned protocol change could threaten the stability of the Internet.   According to blogger Richard Bennett, developers of the ...

Moments ago, running at the top of CNN.com, was a massive banner alerting visitors to a fact that everyone has known for some time: The US has been in a recession since last December. The ...

ReoLynx, a new online marketplace, is trying to help investors buy cheap real estate in bulk. Buyers can look through homes listed on the site, build portfolios and make bids. The company makes ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) revised down its fourth quarter sales guidance as customers slashed chip orders amid "continuing weakness in global economic conditions," the ...

The big post-Thanksgiving shopping day known as Black Friday wasn’t as awful for retailers — at least for online retailers — as some had feared, according to new data from comScore. That’s a ...

Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft plans to work with U.S. digital game maker Electronic Arts (EA) to create a multiplayer online game based on EA's Dungeon Keeper series of digital games. ...

Qimonda AG will face a shortfall of cash in the first three months of next year unless it finds new investors, a strategic partner, or the DRAM industry takes a turn for the better, the company said ...

Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive. Tiny fuel cells, ...

In a move likely to fuel speculation over Yahoo Inc.'s search for a new chief executive, activist investor Carl Icahn has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet company, ...

Clearwire Corp. has completed its merger with the unit of Sprint Nextel Corp. that is building a new wireless data network, the companies said Friday. The company formed by the merger keeps the ...

One of the things I've been saying recently on this blog is that the Dow is full of tired companies and tired stocks. I think the Nasdaq is much more representative of the current american economy ...

Dutch software trader Samir Abdalla has filed a broad antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, charging that the firm's pricing policies violate European Union treaties. ...

Sharp and Italian electricity utility Enel plan to set up a number of solar-power plants in the coming years and are also discussing joing production of solar cells, Sharp said Thursday. The power ...

Electronic health records may help reduce hefty malpractice settlements for physicians and insurance companies. In a study done by Harvard researchers, 6.1% of physicians with electronic records ...

Google's voice search function on the latest version of its Google Mobile search app is pretty slickly implemented: it knows when you put it up to your ear, prompts you to speak, and then searches ...

More used computers could be reused; only 44 percent of computers entering the secondary market end up in the hands of a new owner, despite the fact that worldwide demand for such computers is ...

Yesterday I saw (and twittered) a comScore report on online spending this holiday season. So far this holiday season (comScore calls Nov & Dec the holiday shopping season), $8.2bn has been spent ...

While Microsoft has been busy dilly-dallying with its Zune digital music device, rival Apple has started dominating a vastly more powerful market: Mobile phones. The iPhone has changed things — ...

Fans of the Web series The Guild got good news today when producers announced that its second season would begin appearing online today. Surprisingly though, the show will not continue in its old ...

A new website, BadwareBusters.org, wants to be the destination site for the average computer owner who has questions about viruses and spyware. The site launched in beta last week and ...