Apple is in talks with the largest record companies as it attempts to boost the iPhone’s offering of ringtones and other musical content, according to a report in The New York Times.
Citing several unnamed music industry executives, the Times said that negotiations are “very active” and a final …
Electronic Arts announced Monday that it is extending its tender offer for Take-Two Interactive Software to mid-June, marking its third extension in its hostile buyout attempt of its rival game maker.
Shortly after EA failed to make an attractive-enough offer, Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto IV shattered all-time launch sales …
Comcast is befriending another peer-to-peer software company in the hopes of finding a way to harness the power of P2P without choking its network.
On Monday, Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., said it was entering a strategic relationship with the start-up GridNetworks, a company that makes …
Google will open its ad network so certified partners can serve advertisements and track ad data–a move designed to make it easier for advertisers to run campaigns across multiple companies’ networks.
“This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serve and track display ads, including rich-media ads, …
Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a New York Times article by Randall Stross titled "The Computer Industry Comes With Built-in Term Limits." It focuses on Microsoft and Google and how:
two successive Microsoft chief executives have long tried, and failed, to refute what we might call the …
A bug surfaced during development of a group-oriented search feature allowed me to view Zoho documents created by other people that were not intentionally shared with me.
Zoho fixed the bug on Sunday, after I reported it, and said its impact was limited. Still, as a user, it made me …
Well, that didn’t take long. First it was Barry Klawans taking an “extended break” (which lasted approximately 3 minutes ;-), and now it’s Shaun Connolly of JBoss fame getting back into the ring with Bob Bickel and friends at Ringside Networks, the open-source social networking platform.
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As it continues to work on a turnaround, Dell on Monday announced that it has named a former General Electric executive to serve as its new chief financial officer.
Brian Gladden, who had nearly 20 years of finance and management experience at GE, will join the computer maker Tuesday as …
Shares of Yahoo were up slightly in pre-market trading Monday, following Microsoft’s announcement over the weekend that the two companies have re-entered talks.
Yahoo was up a slight 1.6 percent to $28.10 in pre-market trading. It closed at $27.66 on Friday.
On Sunday, Microsoft announced its …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google to resolve issues surrounding the search engine’s use of Facebook data, according to news reports.
“We want to talk to Google about this and see if there’s a way we can make it work,” InfoWorld quoted him saying Monday at a press conference in Tokyo. …