Remember AOL Time Warner's "aggressive financial goals"? The ones AOL dismissed about 1,700 employees to meet? Forget 'em. Not surprisingly, AOL-TW said the Sept. 11 attacks set it back, and that...

Some companies are grumbling about a new Microsoft Corp. software-licensing plan that goes into effect next week, saying it will raise costs and stretch already strained technology budgets,...

Nimda, Code Red and the newly hatched Vote worm all attack Windows-based systems and spread by exploiting holes in Microsoft's Internet software. Even before these widespread outbreaks, at least one...

OPINION At last. A rally. We can breathe a big sigh of relief and gratitude simply because stocks stopped going down. And we can take delight and encouragement in the fact that yesterday's...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- JDS Uniphase Corp. warned that its fiscal first-quarter sales will fall short of already lowered expectations, but indicated its business was starting to stabilize. The maker of...

OPINION The markets were gripped by fear even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, as the economy slipped into a recession that nobody wanted to admit was happening (but everyone...

Most of the assets of Standard Media International were sold at auction today for a combined $1.4 million, plus assumed subscription liabilities. In an auction in Federal bankruptcy court in San...

NEW YORK -- Napster Inc. and the groups representing U.S. music publishers and songwriters have reached a preliminary agreement to settle their copyright lawsuit, executives from Napster and the...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- An e-mail virus began circulating Monday that seeks to exploit immense interest in the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and the war the U.S. is...

WASHINGTON -- Talks to resolve the fate of the dozens of wireless- communications licenses held by NextWave Telecom Inc. continued through the weekend, but just when the nation's largest...

It's taken almost two weeks, but privacy advocates are starting to get noticed for speaking out against the increased security measures being proposed in the wake of the terrorist attacks. A slew of...

Technology stocks bounced back Monday as downtrodden investors gingerly sorted through devalued shares hurt by last week's heavy selling. In early afternoon trading, the Nasdaq Composite Index...

Technology stocks bounced back Monday as downtrodden investors gingerly poked through last week's devalued market. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 45.80 to 1468.90 in morning trading after...

When new-products coverage follows the usual formula – reporters fashioning the same handful of words into a four-paragraph dispatch - the underlying message is that there's not much there. But...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- VeriSign Inc. said it has agreed to acquire Illuminet Holdings Inc. for $1.2 billion in stock as part of a plan to become a player in the growing market for services that...

Stocks posted a fifth day of losses on Friday as the Dow Jones industrial average turned in its worst weekly performance since the Depression as last week's terrorist attacks fanned concerns the...

OPINION Ten days ago I rolled out of bed and called my buddy at Morgan Stanley for the morning color. "Things are going to be a little strange this morning," he said. "Seems like two airplanes...

WASHINGTON -- Government lawyers said they will make Microsoft Corp.'s powerful new Windows XP software a central focus in the final round of court hearings in their landmark antitrust case against...

Microsoft has stumbled ever so slightly in its ambitious initiative to become a major player in the video gaming business. The Redmond, Wash.-based giant announced on Friday that it would delay the...

WASHINGTON -- NextWave Telecom Inc. has tentatively agreed to sell dozens of highly coveted wireless-spectrum licenses to the nation's largest cellular telephone companies in a deal that could net...