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Automakers backed calls to ban drivers on U.S. roads from text messaging with cell phones and other hand-held devices, an issue gaining attention from the Obama administration and Congress. “It’s common sense,” Dave McCurdy, president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers trade group, said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, a week before […]

Twitter has no plans to put advertisements on the popular microblogging site this year, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday, amid a growing push for the 2-year-old Internet sensation to begin making money. Stone, who said Twitter was “pretty good right now” with regards to funding, stressed the company’s immediate focus was on building out […]

Apple and rapper Eminem may be headed for trial on Thursday if they are unable to resolve a lawsuit over whether the singer’s songs could be used on the popular iTunes service. Eight Mile Style, Eminem’s music publisher, and another plaintiff, Martin Affiliated, are claiming in a lawsuit in federal court in Detroit that Apple […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) struck a deal to acquire computer services provider Perot Systems Corp for about $3.9 billion, offering a steep 67.5 percent premium to its previous market value. The deal is the latest example of computer hardware makers pushing into the higher margin technology services business, which offers stable, recurring revenue streams. Dell, which […]

Antitrust regulators on Monday detailed evidence from Intel clients that led to the European Commission’s record 1.06 billion euro ($1.6 billion) fine on the U.S. chip giant for illegally shutting out rival AMD. In its May decision, the European Union’s executive Commission said Intel paid computer makers to postpone or scrap plans to launch products […]

The founders of Skype filed a new lawsuit on Friday against Index Ventures and one of its partners, Michelangelo Volpi, accusing him of stealing trade secrets to help broker the sale of the Internet phone service owned by eBay Inc. The lawsuit follows another filed this week by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, […]

Adobe’s $1.8 billion bid for Web analytics company Omniture is likely to be rich enough to stave off any interest from companies such as Microsoft, even though the shares are trading above the offer price. Although companies like Microsoft have shown interest in Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR‎) and the online advertising space, paying higher than the […]

Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Google said on Thursday. Speaking to a group of British broadcasting executives via video link, Eric Schmidt said he could, however, imagine niche providers of content such as business news […]

Hewlett-Packard Co named Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, 38, to its board of directors, tapping one of the industry’s best known investors to help guide the world’s biggest PC maker. Chief Executive Mark Hurd is likely to look to Andreessen, one of the developers of the first widely used Web browser, to help expand the company’s […]

Twitter is closing a round of funding that will value the company known for its 140-character, stream-of-consciousness blogs at $1 billion, technology news site TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. The company will raise around $50 million, and CEO Evan Williams told employees about the funding round, TechCrunch said, citing multiple unnamed sources. Twitter did not immediately […]

Lightweight netbooks have rocketed to 10 percent of Toshiba’s U.S. laptop computer shipments just months after the Japanese electronics maker began selling them for the first time. Larger rivals like Hewlett-Packard and Dell have sold netbooks in the United States for more than a year. Toshiba unveiled its first two U.S. netbooks — cheap, ultra-light […]