
Another major Dell shareholder opposes $24.4B sale
A shareholder rebellion against Dell's proposed $24.4 billion sale to its founder and other investors is gaining more support, fueling a belief that ...
Intel working on TV set-top box to replace cable
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it will sell a set-top box that brings Internet-delivered movies and shows to a TV set this year. Erik Huggers, general ...

Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing
Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly ...

Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month
A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that ...
Dell's $24.4B deal opposed by major stockholder
Dell Inc.'s decision to sell itself for $24.4 billion to a group led by its founder and CEO is being ridiculed as a rotten deal by a major shareholder ...
Watson's medical expertise offered commercially
Dr. Watson is accepting new patients. The Watson supercomputer is graduating from its medical residency and is being offered commercially to doctors ...
Google chairman to sell up to 3.2 million shares
With Google's stock hovering at record highs, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell more than 40 percent of his stock in the Internet search ...
HP sets labor guidelines in for Chinese suppliers
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal computer maker, is vowing to crack down on its Chinese suppliers in an effort to reduce the use of ...

LinkedIn's 4Q gets rave reviews from investors
Online professional-networking service LinkedIn's fourth-quarter performance added another line to its sterling resume as a public company.
Yahoo taps into Google's ad network, expertise
Yahoo is counting on rival Google to help accelerate its revenue growth. As part of a nonexclusive arrangement announced Wednesday, Yahoo's website ...

Netflix could gain from loss of Sat. mail delivery
Netflix won't miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy. The U.S. Postal Service's ...
Aussie court clears Google in deceptive ad case
Australia's highest court on Wednesday threw out a ruling against Google Inc. that had found the Internet giant guilty of breaching trade law by ...

Dell to go private in $24.4B deal led by founder
Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since ...

Dell's founder strikes deal to turn it around
It's easy to forget now, but Michael Dell was the Mark Zuckerberg of his day. Hailed as a young genius, he created the inexpensive, made-to-order ...
Pew: Most Facebook users take a break
Too much drama, boredom and scads of irrelevant information are just some of the reasons Facebook users give for taking a break from the world's ...

Stocks rebound on home prices, earnings; Dow up 99
The stock market bounced back Tuesday following a surge in U.S. home prices and signs of recovery in Europe's economy. Strong earnings reports also ...
UK: Surveillance devices to monitor Web traffic
The U.K. plans to install an unspecified number of spy devices along the country's telecommunications network to monitor Britons' use of overseas ...

Oh the drama! Super Ads go epic
Super Bowl ads this year morphed into mini soap operas. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shrugged off aliens so he could get more milk for his kids in a ...
Google to set up $82M fund for French publishers
Google will help French news organizations increase their online advertising revenue and also set up a €60 million ($82 million) fund to finance ...
Sony likely to unveil next PlayStation on Feb. 20
Sony is poised to unveil the next PlayStation game console on Feb. 20, a date that would give the Japanese electronics company a head start over ...

Ready to rumble: Super Bowl fans get in the game
You don't have to be a football player to be a part of the action on Super Bowl Sunday. Coca-Cola is asking people to vote for an online match between ...
Apple blocks Java on Macs due to vulnerabilities
Some Mac users were taken by surprise Thursday as their computers stopped running programs written using the Java programming language after Apple ...
IDC: Apple dominates in tablets, but share shrinks
Apple continues to dominate in tablet computers, although its market share is shrinking because of growing competition from Samsung and others, ...

Nintendo chief rules out price cuts for Wii U
Nintendo's president Thursday ruled out price cuts for its new Wii U home console as a way to boost sales, vowing to become profitable again in its ...