Microsoft has put former Yahoo exec Qi Lu in charge of Microsoft's search, online-advertising, online-information, and online-communications businesses. Lu will report directly to Steve Ballmer. Lu ...

Amazon Web Services is lending a hand to researchers and developers by hosting a centralized repository of public data and the computing power to crunch the data. As with other Amazon Web ...

AT&T is cutting 12,000 jobs or 4 percent of its workforce, tightening its belt because of the depressed economy. AT&T said the cuts would take place in December and throughout 2009. The ...

Facebook today launched Facebook Connect, an extension of the Facebook Platform which allows participating websites to use Facebook authentication credentials to let users log in and comment -- and ...

A Web-based operation that promised customers they could make big money as mystery shoppers will pay US$850,000 to settle charges of deceptive advertising and contempt brought by the U.S. Federal ...

"For years, tech critics like me have occasionally endured abuse from the Cult of Mac. If you write anything that even hints at a less-than-perfect Apple effort ... the backlash is swift, ...

Advocates of net neutrality rules in the U.S. have called on President-elect Barack Obama to act quickly to prevent broadband providers from blocking or impairing access to Internet content of ...

Yahoo Inc.'s stock rallied Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 ...

Google Inc. called off its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo just three hours before the U.S. Department of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on Nov. 5 aimed at blocking it, ...

Even though online retailers reported strong "Cyber Monday" sales this week, another piece of data suggests shoppers are reining in their online spending. The Online Publishers ...

Third-quarter growth in the global smartphone market was its weakest year-on-year since Gartner started tracking the market, but Apple's iPhone stood apart with strong gains. The economic climate is ...

Arianna Huffington's vanity-blog vehicle The Huffington Post recently took on $25 million in new funding at a $100 million valuation. That's an impressive haul considering the dire state of the ...

Advanced Micro Devices caught up with Intel today, announcing that it is slashing its fourth-quarter revenue forecast because of a sharp drop in demand. The company said it expects revenue from ...

About 500 people converged this week on the AlwaysOn Venture Summit West at the luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Apparently shell-shocked investors, venture capitalists and ...

AT&T will lay off 12,000 workers through 2009 as the company reorganizes and faces a tough economic environment, the company said Thursday. AT&T will spend US$600 million in its fourth ...

Fidelity Investments is joining the rush to satisfy investors' growing appetite for news about financial market turmoil. The nation's largest mutual fund company planned Thursday to announce a ...