Continuing its campaign to keep its current board of directors in place ahead of its shareholder meeting, Yahoo had made public a detailed presentation that it says makes it clear why the alternative slate proposed by Carl Icahn is wrong for the Web portal. Yahoo's 32-page presentation extols the vi...

A French court has ordered eBay to pay $63 million in fines in a lawsuit that alleged the auction company didn't do enough to prevent fake versions of high-end goods from being sold by its members. The court commanded eBay to pay Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey, or LVMH, a French conglomerate of luxury...

Online sales lead exchange Reply.com launched a new automotive finance leads marketplace Monday, partnering with the Detroit Trading Company to help create what the company says will be the largest repository of consumers interested in securing car loans. Promising to make the act of buying and sell...

Sony Ericsson, the world's fifth-largest maker of mobile phones, warned Friday that its second-quarter profit and sales figures would miss forecasts due to a combination of lower demand for higher-profit handsets and product delays. The company -- a joint venture between consumer electronics giant S...

In many ways, Monday will be like any other day at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters of the world's largest software maker. Microsoft workers will still come to work to tackle the same array of technological and business challenges facing the company. For the first time in the company's 33-year histo...

In a bid to tap into the citizen journalism movement and emphasize the interactive possibilities of social media, MySpace will team with NBC News and MSNBC.com to offer two of its millions of users the chance to attend and cover this summer's national political conventions. Starting Thursday and unt...

Seeking to reassure investors, many of whom are still stinging from the decision to walk away from a deal with Microsoft, Yahoo is laying out its case for partnering with Google instead of taking billions from the software maker. In a letter to shareholders, CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock a...

Cable and high-speed ISP Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test a service that automatically targets users with advertising based on their online surfing activity after it sparked privacy concerns. In May, Charter announced it would launch a pilot program with partner NebuAd...

The phone of Steve Bozzo, the chief information officer at 1-800-Flowers.com, does occasionally ring in the middle of the night. If all goes as planned, however, the site's customers never know about it. "We work hard with our partners to avoid those 4 a.m. phone calls," Bozzo told the E-Commerce Ti...

Oracle has reached an agreement to buy Skywire, a firm that makes software for the insurance business, as the database and applications giant continues to build out its menu of industry-specific tools. The purchase of Skywire marks the second consecutive acquisition in the insurance space for the vo...

In its latest effort to increase user confidence in its e-commerce platform -- and to boost use of its PayPal payment service -- eBay will offer full protection against fraud to purchases made with PayPal. eBay buyers who complete eligible transactions with PayPal will be able to get 100 percent of ...

Lawmakers have crafted a compromise on a bill that would extend controversial eavesdropping legislation and add provisions meant to protect telecommunications companies from private lawsuits, including several already under way. Ending months of negotiations, the House of Representatives on Friday p...

The vast majority of doctors aren't taking advantage of electronic medical records, with many citing the cost of adoption as a significant impediment, according to a new study that also suggests the tipping point toward broader adoption may be on the horizon. Just 17 percent of U.S. doctors have acc...

China's State Intellectual Property Office is reportedly paving the way for software firms in that country to sue Microsoft for its business practices. However, the agency has denied that it is undertaking an investigation, according to reports. SIPO is conducting an investigation into whether Micro...

Many e-commerce companies have boosted their fortunes by expanding their markets beyond the United States. Avail Intelligence is hoping to help such merchants boost profits and sales by doing the reverse. The move comes as e-commerce growth begins to slow, a function of the sheer size of the market ...

In a reminder that investors remain hungry for chances to back social networking firms, LinkedIn announced it has closed a fourth round of funding worth $53 million. The investment places a valuation of "slightly over $1 billion" on the firm, which bills itself as a professional and business-focused...

Seeking to protect its own business model, The Associated Press is hoping to clarify what constitutes fair use of the content is publishes online, with plans to lay out guidelines for bloggers on how much content they can quote. The AP, which bills itself as the world's largest and oldest news-gathe...

The long-awaited merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio may be on the cusp of winning approval, with the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission now saying he is on board with letting it go forward. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will propose allowing the merger to proceed, but...

Hoping to blunt the impact of an expected torrent of negative campaigning, the presidential campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has launched a Web site dedicated to dispelling rumors and myths about him. Obama's campaign launched a site it calls "FightTheSmears" on Thursday, post...

Talks have officially broken down between Yahoo and Microsoft over a potential merger. Instead, Yahoo has struck a partnership to have Google handle some of its search advertising sales. The two firms met on June 8 at a private airport in Silicon Valley, and Microsoft representatives made it clear t...