Nicholas Carlson

CheckFree is on a shopping spree. The online payment and processing company today announced its second acquisition of 2007, this time Corillian

Viacom's MTV Networks will lay off 250 employees this week as the entertainment property reallocates resources toward interactive properties and new

Google's YouTube and a company called Live Digital will offer no refuge to users who uploaded pirated copies of Fox Television's "24" and "The Simpsons"

Online financial portal Zecco.com will launch zero commission IRA accounts on Monday, internetnews.com has learned. One industry watcher calls the move a

Cisco Systems today bought privately held social-networking vendor Five Across, lending a hand to companies wanting to go the user-generated route. The

Admit it, when you heard Google bought YouTube for $1.5 billion last fall, you considered reevaluating your career choice. If you can do that, yesterday's

Amazon and TiVo claimed their own spot in the digital living room today. The e-commerce giant and the digital video service provider announced Amazon

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is calling for music labels to stop selling music encrypted with digital rights management software (DRM). It's a drastic reversal

Wal-Mart launched a new video download service today, putting the company in direct competition with Apple and its iTunes store. Wal-Mart's beta service

The Super Bowl is over, and advertisers were probably happy to hear that more than 90 million viewers tuned in. The Indianapolis Colts weren't the only

Yahoo will soon find out if it stands a chance against Google in a competition for search marketing dollars. Yahoo's new search marketing rankings model

Super Bowl ads may start their lives in front of 90 million viewers this Sunday, but advertisers are also paying as much as $2.6 million for 30-second