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11. March 2010 - 5:33
H-P, known to consumers mostly as a printer specialist, is seeking to recast itself as a broader tech company with a new ad campaign featuring rapper Dr. Dre, comedian Rhys Darby and the slogan "Lets Do Amazing."
11. March 2010 - 5:29
Sony provided new details of a forthcoming motion controller for its PlayStation 3 videogame console, another entry in a field pioneered by Nintendo.
11. March 2010 - 3:54
Some employees are over-sharing on social-media sites, causing embarrassment and possible financial harm to small enterprises.
11. March 2010 - 3:49
Ten years after Nasdaq hits its peak on the eve of the technology crash, a cautious mood still prevails among Silicon Valley investors.
11. March 2010 - 3:47
Google struck a deal with the Italian government to digitize up to one million books held in the National Libraries in Rome and Florence.
11. March 2010 - 3:04
China Mobile said it agreed to buy a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank for $5.83 billion as the mobile operator seeks to expand into mobile payment services.
11. March 2010 - 2:40
Eric Schmidt said his company expects to soon conclude talks with the Chinese government over the fate of its search engine and business in China.
11. March 2010 - 2:18
While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs.
11. March 2010 - 0:57
CA said it would pay $350 million in cash to acquire privately-held Nimsoft, a move underscoring the business software maker's efforts to expand its sales with smaller and mid-sized companies.
11. March 2010 - 0:42
Verizon Wireless expects to offer its first next-generation 4G handset in mid-2011, about six months earlier than the company had said before.
10. March 2010 - 20:51
A number of technology companies on the Next Big Thing list aim to help businesses deal with data overload.
10. March 2010 - 16:33
The electronics giant will shift to "attack" mode by ramping up unit production and attempting to shore up market share, despite trailing rivals planning earlier 3-D models.
10. March 2010 - 16:12
Just in time for the spring house-hunting season, smart-phone applications that provide information to home buyers are proliferating.
10. March 2010 - 9:52
Creditors of Hynix Semiconductor have selected six lead managers for the sale of a roughly 7% stake in the chipmaker, raising hopes that the sale would happen sooner than expected.
10. March 2010 - 8:49
Fujitsu said it received a verbal warning from the Tokyo Stock Exchange regarding a change in the explanation of its former president's resignation.
10. March 2010 - 6:29
Apple's app store dominates the smart-phone space, but Intel and PC makers like Dell and Acer see a chance to use a similar software store to defend an important new market—netbooks.
10. March 2010 - 5:49
Cable operators are petitioning the FCC to prohibit broadcasters from yanking channels during fee negotiations, as happened in the recent Cablevision-Disney dispute over ABC.
10. March 2010 - 2:22
Tech-fund mavens like Ryan Jacob and Garrett Van Wagoner were media darlings during the late 1990s. Then the boom went bust. Where are they now?
10. March 2010 - 1:01
Cisco unveiled a piece of equipment for the core of the Internet it says can transmit three times as much data as its current hardware, though its introduction won't directly translate into faster connections for consumers.
9. March 2010 - 20:10
The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling.