News Corp. agreed to sell Myspace to Specific Media, which is bringing in Justin Timberlake as an investor. The price is said to be $35 million in stock and cash, a major comedown for a property that was acquired for $580 million just six years ago.
Samsung filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission seeking to stop the sale of key Apple products in the U.S.
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Oracle said it is buying Pillar Data Systems, a storage start-up where Oracle chief Larry Ellison is the principal owner and biggest creditor. Oracle didn't provide a value for the acquisition.
A computer-hacking group posted personal details of officers allegedly taken from an Arizona police department, stepping up its campaign of attacks against government agencies and officials.
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A gaming commission in Britain's Channel Islands shut down Full Tilt Poker, one of the world's most popular poker websites, ratcheting up pressure on an industry already reeling from a crackdown by the U.S.
Whether it's a pile of food-splotched printouts or a cluttered digital desktop, many cooking enthusiasts are swimming in recipes, with no good system for storing them. Even the pros struggle. Is there a better way?
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Amazon.com may soon have to collect sales taxes in California after an online tax-collection bill was signed by the governor. Amazon said the law won't change anything about its California business. A spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Amazon would challenge the law.
Online social gaming company Zynga is preparing to file for an initial public offering as early as Wednesday, expecting a valuation of between $15 billion and $20 billion.
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A venture-capital giant is leading a group of investors buying a stake in Square that pegs the start-up's value at more than $1 billion, even as it scrambles to fend off larger rivals.
Google launched its most ambitious social-networking effort yet, broadening a battle with Facebook to grab the attention of Web users and advertising dollars.
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay who now runs a philanthropic investment firm, says giving away money is more challenging than it looks.
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Sony said Andrew House, who heads the company's videogame business in Europe, will succeed Kazuo Hirai as chief executive officer of global videogame unit Sony Computer Entertainment.
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CEO Leo Apotheker pledged to expand manufacturing and other operations in China to bolster the company's position in a vital market where it has been losing ground to rivals in its flagship personal-computer business.
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Sina apologized to users of its Weibo service after it was hit by a virus, in what appears to be the first attack of its kind against the popular Chinese microblogging service.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled an online version of Office, taking aim at rival products from Google and others as it looks to sate customers' appetite for Web-based software.
News Corp.'s talks to sell most of Myspace have narrowed to the ad-targeting firm Specific Media and Golden Gate Capital. Any deal would include hundreds of job cuts at the struggling social-networking website.
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Video editors' complaints about the new version of a popular software have prompted Apple to provide a help website and issue assurances that updates are coming.
Larry Summers is marching further into Silicon Valley. Summers, the former Treasury Secretary from 1999 to 2001 and more recently the Chief Economic Advisor to President Barack Obama, is joining Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a Special Advisor.
Myspace CEO Mike Jones said he is in discussions to take a post on the board of the new company.
With Internet valuations surging, Zynga Inc. is preparing to test investors' appetites.
Blue Jeans Network has launched a cloud-based video-conferencing service that aims to make the process as easy to use as a telephone.
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A small army of multitouch tablet computers has been launched this year to take on Apple's iPad. Walt Mossberg reviews the TouchPad from H-P, the latest one to enter the fray.
If you're heading to the beach this summer and you plan to read an e-book, you won't want to take your iPad. Luckily, the latest versions of the Nook and the Kindle offer glare-free screens and other reader-friendly functions.
Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur fielded questions live on tech challenges for business leaders on June 29. Replay the event.
This shadowy slice of post-Cold War apocalyptica comes courtesy of "Glorious Mission," a videogame designed to help train China's enlisted men.
Surrounded by at least a half dozen members of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the very first time earlier today on the Vatican's English language Twitter account.
Apple's success in digital music is no flash in the pan. Google and Amazon.com, each recently unveiling virtual lockers for digital music, face big obstacles taking on Apple.
Neul, a Cambridge-based start up, has won funding to fuel its plans to offer wireless services, especially machine-to-machine communications, in the frequencies opened up by the global switch to digital television.
The ninth annual D: All Things Digital Conference was packed with insight, innovation and, most of all, optimism and excitement.
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Google, Apple and Facebook defended their privacy practices to lawmakers considering how to update privacy laws to include more protections for Internet users.
Facebook's "Like" and Twitter's "Tweet" buttons allow Internet users to share content. But they also let their makers collect data about websites people visit.
The smartest companies are letting employees use their personal gadgets to do their jobs. It's an arrangement that can benefit both sides but has pitfalls, too. Here's how some businesses are making it work.
From a handy way to store a range of passwords to an application that will help keep track of ongoing alcohol consumption, The Wall Street Journal Europe presents 10 apps you can't live without.
It's been likened to the Industrial Revolution in terms of its potential to change lives. But just what is cloud computing and how can companies turn it to their advantage?
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