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eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) is restructuring its operations worldwide, which will lead to a small cut in global staffing levels but with some countries hit harder than others, a company representative said on Thursday. “It’s less than 1 percent globally,” company spokeswoman Sravanthi Agrawal told Reuters, adding the main regions and countries affected by the online […]

U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday. Bush chose Kenneth Wainstein, the department’s first assistant attorney general for national security and a former FBI general counsel, to succeed Frances Townsend as assistant to the president for homeland […]

LOS ANGELES — Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) said a U.S. appeals court let stand a lower court order barring wireless chip maker Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) from selling chips that infringe on three of its patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. rejected a bid by Qualcomm to lift a California trial court’s […]

The European Commission wants to raise broadband Internet penetration in the European Union to 30 percent in 2010 from 20 percent today in an effort to drive economic growth, its top telecoms regulator said on Wednesday. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said only eight of the bloc’s 27 member states were ahead of the United […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is in talks with major music companies to offer customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPods and iPhones, Financial Timesthe reported. Citing people familiar with the talks, the paper said the negotiations hinged on a dispute over the price Apple would […]

Google has seen increasing Internet activity among mobile phone users in recent months since the company introduced faster Web services on selected phone models, fueling confidence the mobile Internet era is at hand, the company said on Tuesday. Early evidence showing sharp increases in Internet usage on phones, not just computers, has emerged from services […]

Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social-network site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. Facebook executives told reporters at the company’s Palo Alto, California headquarters of changes that will allow Facebook’s more than 67 million active users worldwide to […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) disclosed on Tuesday revenue forecasts ahead of Wall Street expectations for 2009 and 2010 as it tries to convince investors it deserves a higher takeover offer from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Shares of Yahoo, which also reaffirmed its financial forecasts for the first quarter and full year 2008, rose 5.4 percent to $27.24 in […]

Online media company CNET Networks (NASDAQ: CNET) said it will appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court a ruling that allowed a group of investors affiliated with a hedge fund to nominate seven directors to its board. CNET said it is pursuing the appeal because a “costly and disruptive” proxy contest initiated by Jana Partners is […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the world’s leading Internet search engine, said on Tuesday it was well positioned to weather any economic downturn as its advertisers were broad based. Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged sliding share values and noted that a shortage of credit in financial markets was “a very serious issue.” He said many people were […]

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has set up its own affiliate network to encourage Web sites to drive traffic to its eBay and Half.com Web sites, reducing its reliance on ValueClick’s network. In a statement on Monday, eBay said the online auctioneer and Half.com will no longer run their affiliate programs through ValueClick’s Commission Junction platform but […]

BMC Software said on Monday it would buy BladeLogic for about $800 million, adding a line of programs that help boost automation within its customers’ data centers. BMC (NYSE:BMC) said it plans to pay $28 a share in cash, about a 19 percent premium to BladeLogic’s (NASDAQ: BLOG) $23.61 closing price on Friday. BladeLogic shares […]