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The Software as a Service concept is rapidly spreading to touch almost every functional area in the IT stack. The latest example is security vendor Webroot's acquisition of Email Systems, a SaaS security provider. Primarily focused on consumer and SMB markets prior to this merger, Webroot's newly ac...

It is becoming increasingly unsafe to buy or otherwise conduct business online, according to the ninth annual CyberSource survey on e-commerce fraud. Fraudsters will divert approximately $3.6 billion from U.S. e-commerce in 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006, based on survey results. Merchants ar...

Advanced Micro Devices has received a welcome financial boost -- a $622 million infusion of capital from Mubadala Development, a wholly state-owned enterprise of Abu Dhabi. As part of the transaction, Mubadala received 49 million shares at a price of $12.70 per share. After reimbursing Mubadala $14....

Former U.S. vice present and Nobel Peace Prize-winning environmental activist Al Gore has linked up with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with similar street cred in the investment community. Generation Investment Management, which Gore cofounded, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have a...

Ottawa, Canada-based Wi-Lan has filed two separate infringement suits against 22 chip suppliers, equipment vendors and electronics retailers. The targeted companies include Acer, Apple, Atheros, Belkin, Best Buy, Broadcom, Buffalo Technology, Circuit City, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Inf...

Vonage has settled the financial details of a lawsuit it lost to Verizon for patent infringement, capping its penalty at $120 million -- a possible $32 million in addition to the $88 million already accrued and held in escrow. The final amount will depend on how the Court of Appeals decides Vonage's...

Google and Nielsen have formed a relationship designed to help advertisers create targeted ads for viewers and track how and where their advertising dollars are delivering a return. Under the agreement, Google will provide Nielsen's demographic data through its Google TV Ads advertising platform. Go...

Online retail sales for this holiday season are expected to increase by 20 percent over sales from the 2006 season, surpassing $39 billion, according to JupiterResearch's U.S. Online Retail Holiday Forecast for 2007. This growth will be driven not only by veteran online shoppers -- who are projected...

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Joining the line of telecom companies suing Vonage, AT&T on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the VoIP provider in the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's statements. The suit centers around a patent filed in 1...

Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mail messages promoting pornographic Web sites, and reaping millions of dollars as a result. Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to six years, and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., was sen...

Google is introducing ad-supported video clips from YouTube -- what it calls "video units" -- to its AdSense platform, one of many steps in a strategy designed to glean a return on its massive investment in the video-sharing Web site. Google is working with select YouTube content partners, including...

Google has added functionality from Postini -- its recently acquired on-demand security provider -- to Google Apps Premier Edition, further leveraging its ambitious acquisition and development platform. Google acquired Postini last month for $625 million in cash. The privately held company services ...

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, and Steve Perlman, who developed Apple's QuickTime video technology and WebTV, were among the people who descended upon Capitol Hill to protest the Patent Reform Act passed by the House of Representatives at the beginning of September. Kamen and Perlman are perhap...

MySpace is tapping into its rich universe of content -- that is, its users' profiles -- to bulk up its advertising platform. The ubiquitous social networking Web site will be matching ads to people's profiles so that visitors to, say, a music aficionado's page will see adds for music Web sites. MySp...

Microsoft has acquired one of the few providers of persistent, or group, chat functionality, a niche enterprise tool that is gaining rapid adoption, especially in the financial services areas. The software giant bought Parlano, best known for its MindAlign application, for an undisclosed sum. Parlan...

Aruba and Motorola have joined the now legion number of tech companies engaged in legal patent disputes. Motorola's subsidiary companies Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Aruba Networks in the United States District Court for the Distr...

Yahoo is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a human rights organization that claims the Internet portal's cooperation with the Chinese government resulted in the torture and 10-year jail term of political dissident Wang Xiaoning. Xiaoning had used a Yahoo account to anonymously pos...

Qualcomm has repurchased and retired approximately 29 million shares of its stock during the last two months for approximately $1.1 billion under its $3 billion stock repurchase program. Some $1.5 billion worth of shares remain authorized for repurchase in future periods, net of put options outstand...