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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on Thursday for a new “creative capitalism” to help the world’s 1 billion poorest who live on less than $1 a day. Gates, one of the world’s richest men, said he was not dumping the basic tenets of capitalism but argued market forces must be better used to address the […]

AT&T on Thursday posted stronger-than-expected wireless growth for the fourth quarter and reiterated its 2008 outlook, easing investor concerns that U.S. economic weakness would hurt its subscriber growth. The largest U.S. phone company had warned earlier this month that it saw some softness in its consumer business, but it said on Thursday that it added […]

Sprint Nextel said on Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh and two other top executives would leave the company in a new management shake-up as the No. 3 U.S. mobile service grapples with subscriber declines. The announcement is the second major move in less than a week by Sprint’s new Chief Executive Dan Hesse, […]

Bidding begins on Thursday in a crucial auction of government-owned airwaves that is expected to help set the future course of the U.S. telecommunications business. Companies ranging from AT&T and Verizon Wireless, to possible new competitors such as Internet company Google, EchoStar Communications and Cablevision Systems will be able to snap up part of the […]

Motorola said on Wednesday it will post an operating loss in the current quarter as recovery in its mobile phone business is taking longer than expected, dashing Wall Street expectations for a profit and sending its shares down as much as 14 percent. The miss of as much as 16 cents per share for Motorola’s […]

Google attacked European parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to have regulators consider competitive implications in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick. The argument was the centerpiece of a European Parliament hearing to consider the burgeoning role of the Internet in impinging on the privacy of citizens. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is planning to announce cutbacks later this month that will likely lead to hundreds of job losses at the nearly 14,000 employee company, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday. Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong declined to comment on a report published on the Silicon Alley Insider blog, which is […]

Top Internet auctioneer eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire and may announce her departure within weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The report, quoting people familiar with the matter, said the situation “remains fluid” but that the 51-year-old Whitman had recently begun delegating more daily responsibilities and was completing succession […]

Honeypots (also known as “evil twins”) behave much like carnivorous plants. They are set up by hackers who prey on unsuspecting Wi-Fi users by creating an AP that lures its victims by masquerading as a nice, safe source of something sweet (in this case, free Wi-Fi). Once the user has logged on, the honeypot clamps its sticky jaws shut and steals the user’s sensitive […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook’s wave of popularity. Slide, a 65-employee company founded by Max Levchin, 32, the Ukrainian-born co-founder of online payments company PayPal, is the creator of several […]

Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar code readers on mobile phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail. In New York this week for the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual convention, retailers were urged to go high tech […]

A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing Microsoft because it says the software giant stole technology that allows Internet users to type Chinese characters. Microsoft countered the claim on Friday. Zhongyi Electronic, a 100-employee firm, alleged that Microsoft has used its inputting technology and fonts in Windows operating systems without commercial agreement for a decade, […]