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HP to buy EDS for about $13.2 billion in cash
Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM.- 11:53 AM
Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying Electronic Data Systems Corp. for $13.2 billion in a deal that will create the second largest technology services provider behind IBM.- 11:53 AM
The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable.- 7:43 AM
EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a model for how big cities should deploy Wi-Fi.- 12:56 PM
A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union regulators that Microsoft Corp.'s new file format for storing documents discouraged competition.- 1:51 PM
Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong way.- 12:14 AM
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings exceeded expectations and the company raised its full-year financial targets, the computer maker and technology services provider said Tuesday.- 8:58 AM
Dan Hesse, chief executive officer at Sprint Nextel Corp. for less than five months, faced tough questions Tuesday about the company's continued trouble keeping wireless subscribers.- 2:38 PM
Losing the audio feed during "Monday Night Football" may seem like a crisis for some sports fan, but it's nothing compared to losing the signal that monitors a critically ill hospital patient.- 3:23 PM
Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.- 7:48 AM
Corporate Express NV said it is willing to consider a sweetened $2.47 billion hostile takeover bid by rival office products supplier Staples Inc., which boosted its offering price 10 percent Tuesday.- 12:08 PM
Japanese electronics company Hitachi Ltd. said Tuesday its loss widened in the latest fiscal year because of weak sales of plasma TVs in the United States.- 1:36 PM
Federal regulators should throw out fines imposed against Circuit City Stores Inc. for violating rules regarding next year's switch from analog to digital television, the consumer electronics retailer said in a filing Tuesday.- 3:53 PM
Japan's top telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit surged 32 percent in fiscal 2007 on booming long distance and international communications business.- 7:28 AM
Tribune Co.'s $650 million sale of Newsday is an important step toward alleviating its debt burden - for this year.- 8:38 AM
In stressful times, caregivers must figure out how to share information with lots of people and friends must figure out how best to help without being invasive. One possible solution: Check the internet.- 4:09 PM
Apple Inc. said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds.- 6:54 PM
Two executives have left Advanced Micro Devices Inc., including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp.- 7:03 PM
Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday introduced its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.- 10:01 AM
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Monday its first-quarter loss widened by nearly 6 percent even as revenue jumped 17 percent.- 1:22 PM
An affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp., iPCS Inc., said Monday it is seeking to block Sprint from forming a wireless broadband company with Clearwire Corp.- 4:34 PM
