Tim Gray

Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that its online unit has reached an agreement to buy Tickets.com in a deal worth approximately $66 million. The Internet division of MLB, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), said the move was spurred by increased attendance at both the major and minor league levels of the sport and the need to […]

Nokia had a busy first day at the 3GSM mobile communications trade show in Cannes, France, making several moves that could increase the company’s position in the cell phone industry. For starters, the Finland-based cell phone maker introduced the latest version of its Series 60 platform that it says will enable manufacturers to create smartphones […]

The European Commission on Friday said it had restarted its antitrust review of Microsoft and Time Warner’s acquisition of anti-piracy software company ContentGuard, according to wire service reports. The future of the proposed ContentGuard takeover remains on shaky ground despite the fact that Microsoft and Time Warner modified the original offer and brought in French […]

Pfizer and Microsoft have filed parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy rings hawking generic versions of the pharmaceutical giant’s erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. The companies said legal actions filed Thursday in New York and Washington stem from a seven-month investigation during which they identified and tracked down the two most prominent parties allegedly responsible for […]

Check Point Software has rolled out an updated version of its Integrity firewall, as well as its first security event management software system, called Eventia Analyzer. Integrity 6.0, a subscription service that controls application access to networks from PCs, improves on its manageability, scalability and reliability performance for endpoint security, according to Rich Weiss, Check […]

NEW YORK — The government’s star witness in its fraud case against ex-WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers told a jury Tuesday that the former chief executive officer repeatedly pressured him to “hit our numbers” when the telecom giant was struggling to generate revenues. Scott Sullivan, 42, the former finance chief at WorldCom, testified that Ebbers pushed […]

NEW YORK — Former WorldCom finance boss Scott Sullivan, the government’s key witness in its fraud trial against former boss Bernard Ebbers, told a jury Monday that he cooked company books in order to inflate earnings and make the telecom appear profitable. “I falsified financial statements of the company, made adjustments to revenue for the […]

Spurred by a strong performance in advertising sales at its cable networks, Time Warner boosted its quarterly net profit 76 percent, company officials said. This performance resulted in earnings of $42.1 billion in 2004, a 6 percent increase from 2003. Net income for the year was $3.4 billion compared to $2.6 billion for 2003. The […]

Microsoft has notified customers that 13 security bulletins are in the works for its next patch release, including a fix for Windows vulnerabilities tagged as critical, and one for its IM service Windows Messenger. The fixes are slated to be released on Tuesday, Feb. 8 as part of Microsoft’s monthly patch cycle. Microsoft said that […]

Participation in prime-time Super Bowl festivities is usually reserved for elite athletes, half-time performers and advertisers willing to fork over $2.4 million for a 30-second spot. In fact, just getting a ticket to the game can cost you thousands of dollars for a chance to yell for your team. But there are cheaper ways to […]

As many defunct dot-coms discovered in the past few years, advertising during the Super Bowl can be as big of a gamble as picking a team to cover the point spread. But every year, companies old and new line up to take a crack at advertising in hopes of scoring with viewers during the big […]

Verizon Wireless and Warner Music Group announced an agreement to offer music video downloads, potentially carving out a much needed new revenue stream for the mobile provider. Subscribers of V Cast, the carrier’s new multimedia downloading service that operates on Verizon’s third-generation wireless network, will be able to download music videos from Warner’s catalog of […]