InternetNews Staff

The explosion of ways people watch television is confounding the media industry, which has relied for decades on the Nielsen ratings but now must adapt to the realities of the Internet and on-demand video. Americans are watching more TV than ever — an average of 151 hours a month — on more networks and in […]

Higher margins, the ability to collect and use information about customers, more revenue and greater willingness to share content with Internet operators is prompting Hollywood to join forces with the likes of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube or set up its own Internet portals. Online video streaming and digital downloads should nearly triple to a $753 […]

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is considering a plan to reorganize the company and combine its printer and personal computer units, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. A plan is being finalized that would put Todd Bradley, who leads HP’s PC group, in charge of the combined division, the report said, citing people familiar with the […]

Salesforce.com, a maker of Web-based software for managing sales and customer service, is getting into the business of selling accounting programs through a venture with a Dutch company. Salesforce has set up a company, FinancialForce.com, with Unit 4 Agresso NV that sells accounting software using Salesforce.com’s technology for building and distributing software over the Web. […]

Warner Music Group and YouTube are finalizing an agreement that would allow music videos from artists such as Madonna and Green Day to once again be featured on the popular web site, according to sources close to the deal. The deal, which one source described as imminent, would resolve a dispute over licensing rights that […]

The mobile music landscape is very much a study in good news, bad news. The bad news is that mobile music has failed to live up to the expectations that the early success of ringtones had inspired. Combined ringtone and ringback tone sales have fallen almost 23 percent so far this year, according to Nielsen […]

Norwegian browser maker Opera urged European Union antitrust regulators on Monday not to rush to close its antitrust case against Microsoft before ensuring a level playing field among browsers. European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a newspaper interview last week that she was keen to reach a deal with Microsoft before her term ends […]

European Union antitrust regulators are seeking to ensure that an offer by U.S. software company Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to give users the chance to choose competing Web browsers was workable for consumers and its rivals. Microsoft proposed to the European Commission in July to install a ballot screen that would allow users to set up […]

A top executive at France’s biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of e-mails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees. While France Telecom CFO Gervais Pellissier did not directly blame suicides on around-the-clock e-mail, he said workers in all big companies are under more […]

Hewlett-Packard predicted that overall IT spending would bounce back next year, but set a fiscal 2010 revenue forecast that came in just below Wall Street’s expectations. The IT industry will return to growth in 2010, and HP (NYSE: HPQ) should outpace that growth, CEO Mark Hurd told an audience at the company’s yearly analyst meeting […]

Twitter is close to securing as much as $100 million of new funding from up to seven investors in a deal that values the fast-growing microblogging site at about $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, The funding group includes mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, […]

Appeals court judges hearing the latest round of a long-running patent fight between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Toronto technology company i4i on Wednesday questioned a lower court’s calculation that the software giant owed $290 million in damages to the smaller firm. The appeals court made no immediate ruling on an injunction which a U.S. district […]