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Savvy office workers frustrated that their on-the-job computer tools don’t function as smoothly as, say, an Apple iPod are taking matters into their own hands. No longer are they relying on company technicians or information technology (IT) administrators to choose the software needed to get the job done. They know how to pluck tools right […]

The No. 2 U.S. radio broadcaster CBS Radio said on Friday it will merge its more than 150 online radio stations with AOL’s more than 200 online stations. CBS Radio, a division of CBS Corp (NYSE:CBS), will take over advertising sales, the companies said in a joint statement. This spring, CBS Radio plans to launch […]

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is removing some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday. Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) said on Thursday it will start supporting Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s Exchange product for corporate e-mail, opening a potential new market for the popular iPhone. Shares of Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone widely used by corporations, fell 2.7 percent to $99 on the news on NASDAQ. Apple shares […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick (NASDAQ:DCLK), people familiar with the situation said. The approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the transaction. The Commission, the EU’s […]

Top U.S. phone company AT&T (NYSE:T) will invest $1 billion worldwide this year to build four undersea cables and to expand its network services, senior officials said on Wednesday. The bulk of this investment will be outside the United States, where AT&T in 2007 spent $750 million of its total investment of about $18 billion, […]

Social networking site Facebook has approached major music labels about launching a music service, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The talks were described as “preliminary.” The development comes after sources familiar with the discussion told Reuters last week that the major labels had held similar talks with MySpace, […]

NEW YORK — Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) extended its deadline to nominate board directors, gaining time to seek alternatives or negotiate friendlier terms to a $41.7 billion buyout offer from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). The original March 14 deadline could have catapulted Microsoft and Yahoo into a proxy contest next week. Instead, Yahoo said today that the deadline would […]

Software magnate Larry Ellison’s NetSuite (NYSE:N) plans to turn its business-management software service into a platform for developers to create customized management programs for small and medium-size businesses. The company, which delivers its software as a service over the Internet, sees customers and developers adding features for niche markets, then selling those products. NetSuite sells […]

SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world’s biggest makers of business software and microchips, will jointly offer servers prepackaged with SAP software aimed at medium-size firms, the two companies said. The package, which companies should be able to use straight out of the box, is Germany-based SAP’s first venture into hardware offerings preinstalled with […]

HANOVER, Germany — IBM has teamed up with partners in Austria and Poland to offer Microsoft-free (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) personal computers for the eastern European market, IBM said in a statement on Tuesday. IBM (NYSE:IBM) said it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating system together with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) software […]

Intel has picked “Atom” as the new brand name for its latest microprocessor, the world’s largest semiconductor company said. The Intel Atom processor is the name for the new family of low-power processors, the brains of digital devices, that will power mobile Internet devices and small, low-cost notebook and desktop PCs. Intel sees a big […]