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Google and Yahoo have decided to delay implementing a controversial search advertising partnership, Yahoo said on Friday. “The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing this agreement to continue our ongoing discussions with the ([U.S.] Department of Justice,” Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) said in a statement. “We have had discussions with regulators and look […]

NEW YORK — An online report claiming that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) chief executive Steve Jobs has had a heart attack is not true, the company said today. Responding to a report in “iReport”, a citizen journalist Web site owned and operated by Time Warner Inc’s CNN (NYSE: TWX), Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told Reuters by […]

GENEVA — CERN, the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments. Some 7,000 scientists in 33 countries are now linked through the computing network at CERN, the European Organization for […]

Privately held online health sites Revolution Health Network and Waterfront Media agreed to merge in a deal that could challenge WebMD Health Corp’s dominance in the health care space. The companies did not disclose the financial terms in a joint statement, but the New York Times said on Friday the deal was worth $300 million. […]

Savvy Internet users in China began avoiding the version of Skype offered by its Chinese partner two years ago, but news it filtered and recorded text messages has sparked new worries about the global firm’s commitment to privacy. The U.S.-owned Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and communications firm faces a backlash at home and in China for apparently […]

Japan’s Fujitsu is in talks with U.S. hard disk drive maker Western Digital on the sale of its money-losing hard drive business, a company official said, in a deal one newspaper estimated could be worth $945 million. If realized, the move would be the latest in a round of consolidations as inventories in computer storage […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has agreed to buy LeftHand Networks, a network storage provider, for $360 million in cash to extend its storage technology offerings for mid-sized companies. The acquisition, which is expected to close in HP’s fiscal first quarter of 2009, is subject to purchase price adjustments, HP said. LeftHand Networks, based in Boulder, […]

Social network software maker Slide has signed a deal with major media companies to distribute video content on Facebook, capitalizing on the success of social networking. The distribution partnership includes CBS Interactive, Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) E! Entertainment channel, Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) Warner Bros. as well as News Corp. and NBC Universal’s jointly-owned video site […]

A Norway consumer agency said it aims to take computer group Apple to court over what it calls unfair barriers to playing music from the iTunes music store on devices other than Apple’s iPod. Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon told Reuters he hoped other countries would follow the Norwegian example and file their own cases […]

RealNetworks and major film studios on Tuesday squared off in a legal battle over a new product allowing consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal. RealDVD, a software product from RealNetworks subsidiary RealNetworks Home Entertainment, allows users to create a copy of a DVD for their computer’s internal or […]

It’s not easy to find the most inspired executives who possess a unique mix of talent, drive, energy, leadership–on top of a steely conviction about their technology vision. Don’t get us wrong: The technology industry is filled with lots of executive talent at all ranks and is populated by some of the sharpest minds on […]

Source: Reuters Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems’s encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday. Last week, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it fixed a temporary problem that allowed people to record and copy from the online retailer’s […]