Australia is among 24 countries to get a new domestic call plan
from the internet phone service Skype.
Time Inc is eliminating nearly 300 jobs as it continues to revamp
its huge portfolio of magazines and contend with the internet.
Four families sue MySpace after their underage daughters were
sexually abused by adults they met there.
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. will begin dispensing advice about
personal finances in its latest bid to bolster its own finances.
With iPod sales still soaring, Apple Inc. reaped record profit during the holiday quarter and stands to remain a Wall Street darling despite issuing a second-quarter forecast that fell below analyst expectations.
Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said Thursday.
Banks and credit card companies scrambled to tell their customers
in the United States and overseas to watch for fraudulent activity
after TJX Cos., parent of retailers Marshalls and T.J. Maxx,
disclosed thefts of customer data from its computer system.
Banks and credit card companies scrambled to notify their customers to watch for fraudulent activity after TJX Cos., parent of retailers Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, disclosed thefts of customer data from its computer system.
Apple Inc. will have plenty of room to eventually reduce the retail price of its upcoming iPhone, according to preliminary gross margin estimates by a market research company.
Though payment processor Neteller PLC is the latest and largest such company to pull out of the lucrative but illegal U.S. online gambling market, industry observers said other e-wallet sites would come forward to take its place.
Fourth-quarter profit at International Business Machines Corp. rose 11 percent and beat Wall Street expectations Thursday, and the company also delivered a blockbuster figure in services contract signings, an important measure of future revenue.
The number of Americans with traditional landline telephones has
declined sharply over the past three years _ a trend with
ramifications for phone surveys that inform policy and market
research.
A biotechnology advocacy group reported Thursday that a record
number of biotech crops were planted worldwide last year, but
critics complained the gains were more of the same: aimed at making
corn, soy and cotton crops resistant to weed killers and bugs.
Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that will build a $550 million
data centre here to house its growing online services.
MySpace defended itself against new lawsuits charging it had failed to protect five girls from being lured into sex traps by predators on the popular teen social website.
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Bank develops a new indicator for foreign exchange movements based
on Apple's iPod music player.
Microsoft will make its new Vista operating system available for
download via the Internet.
A former insider, David Sobotta, experienced the brilliant,
difficult and theatrical Apple boss Steve Jobs.
