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Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offer  Read Story.
Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network....  Read Story.
Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
NEW YORK (AP) -- A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the co  Read Story.
Electronic Arts shares slide on weak outlook
NEW YORK (AP) -- Electronic Arts Inc. narrowed its net loss in the last quarter but video game sales declined, and a disappointing outlook for the company sent its shares down sharply Monday....  Read Story.
MySpace Music experiments with audio ads
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online....  Read Story.
Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential bu  Read Story.
Spain's Telefonica considers charging Google
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use....  Read Story.
Chinese police shut down hacker training business
BEIJING (AP) -- Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious softwa  Read Story.
SAP CEO resigns, replaced by 2 co-chief executives
FRANKFURT (AP) -- The chief executive of German software company SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, has resigned after his contract was not renewed and two new co-CEOs have been named, the company said Sunday  Read Story.
PayPal halts certain payment transactions in India
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week....  Read Story.
Macmillan books coming back to Amazon
NEW YORK (AP) -- After a weeklong absence, new copies of Andrew Young's "The Politician," Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and other books published by Macmillan are available for purchase on Amazon.co  Read Story.
Chinese man gets 2 1/2 years for phony Cisco parts
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Chinese businessman who sold phony Cisco computer parts to U.S. buyers has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison....  Read Story.
Police: Fugitive's Facebook info leads to arrest
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- Police in western New York say a fugitive all but turned himself in by posting his workplace on Facebook and MySpace....  Read Story.
Another redesign for Facebook on 6th birthday
NEW YORK (AP) -- In its latest redesign, Facebook is playing up applications, games and search....  Read Story.
Feds still troubled by Google's digital book deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyrigh  Read Story.
AT&T now says SlingPlayer for iPhone on 3G is OK
SEATTLE (AP) -- AT&T Inc. said Thursday it will now allow Sling Media Inc.'s television-viewing program for the iPhone to operate over its "3G" high-speed mobile network....  Read Story.
Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two Pennsylvania cases  Read Story.
Prius problems put spotlight on car electronics
NEW YORK (AP) -- Your most expensive piece of electronics probably is not your flat panel TV or your computer. More likely, it's your car, which can pack 50 microprocessors to control everything f  Read Story.
DOJ still troubled by Google's digital book deal
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyright law  Read Story.
DOJ opinion due on Google's digital book agreement
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing in on a revised legal settlement that would give Google the digital rights to millions of books....  Read Story.


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