NEW YORK -- Faltering Internet icon AOL was able to squeeze out more than $1 billion from Microsoft for a trove of some 800 patents in an auction, the latest sign of just how valuable such portfolios can be for the world's biggest technology companies."There is a fight for market share ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson plans to tell the struggling Internet company's employees more about his turnaround strategy next week.Thompson also sought to boost sagging employee morale in a staff memo Thursday. It came a day after Yahoo Inc. began laying off 2,000 workers in the ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson eliminates jobs that don't fit into his plans for turning around the beleaguered Internet company.The cuts announced Wednesday represent about 14 percent of the 14,100 workers employed by Yahoo.Yahoo estimated it ...
NEW YORK -- Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "rights and responsibilities" policies.But the latter effort backfired when tens of thousands of ...
SEATTLE -- When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a ...
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MADISON, Wis. -- Apple's latest iPad drew the customary lines of die-hard fans looking to be first and entrepreneurs looking to make a quick profit.Many buyers lined up for hours, and in some cases overnight, as the tablet computer went on sale in the U.S. and nine other countries. They did so ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- In everything it does, from product design to business deals, Apple strives for as much control as possible. But as the world's most valuable company sets out to define and dominate the rapidly evolving markets it created with the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is likely to face ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Google Inc. has sent an ever-clearer signal that it could be bringing a TV service to the Kansas City market.The company's subsidiary, Google Fiber, recently filed applications in Missouri and Kansas to operate a video service.Those filings mark the strongest indications so ...
