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In turn, the bookseller will capture additional points of distribution from hundreds of millions of Windows users around the world, potentially reaching consumers who did not associate Barnes & Noble with e-books.

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Sony soon had a new force to contend with: an Anonymous splinter group called Lulz Security, commonly known as LulzSec. Members were like the merry droogs of the net;

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The most visceral reaction was elicited by a question that asked whether consumers would be willing to share “information about you with the stores that you visit, when you are just browsing.”

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Both Murdochs in sworn testimony at a U.K. media-ethics inquiry last week blamed underlings for their failure to detect any wrongdoing at the now defunct News of the World newspaper.

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That is nearly double what Barnes & Noble’s entire market capitalization was on Friday. Indeed, it’s worth more than what the parent company has been valued at any time since mid-2008.

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“These publishers are completely aligned with Barnes & Noble,” Mr. Lynch said. “Publishers are going to like this deal a lot.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 9:00 PM | Add Comment

The evidence from the Leveson inquiry could particularly increase the pressure on members of the committee from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party, traditionally seen as close to the world's most powerful media tycoon.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2012 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Inside News Corporation, the hacking scandal has consumed an increasing amount of attention.

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As told to Patricia R. Olsen.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

On Thursday the FTC announced it had tapped experienced litigator Beth Wilkinson to lead its antitrust probe of Google.

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The discussions with creditors remain fluid, and the exact contours of a deal—including when and how some lenders want Mr. Falcone to step aside—are in flux

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“People love that entrepreneur/mystic thing,” Mr. Pabon says.

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But it was Reagan, an old-fashioned, wood-chopping guy who liked to pen his speeches on a legal pad, who approved the installation of a PC network.

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The nation’s power grid would be a more viable target.

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But that is crucial information to political campaigns as they seek to shift their broadcast and direct-mail budgets onto the Internet.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Amazon shares (ticker: AMZN) blasted off last week like one of CEO Jeff Bezos's rocket ships, soaring 15.75% Friday, ending the week at $226.85.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 9:30 AM | Add Comment

“The antitrust authorities in Europe may have grown wary of being seen as being too tough on successful U.S. technology companies like Microsoft and Google.”

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SketchUp is a free 3D modeling platform that helps in designing 3D models within Google Earth — a virtual map of most of the planet's surface.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2012 7:14 PM | Add Comment

“This shows Google that if it doesn’t give you the remedy you want, you’re going to litigate.”

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Earlier Thursday, Google formally denied obstructing a government investigation into a privacy breach but agreed to pay a small fine anyway.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Relationships are hard enough. But the rise of social media — where sharing private moments is encouraged, and provocative and confessional postings can help build a following — has created a new source of friction for couples

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

But the swift growth in Asia underscores how Apple has become a truly global brand. Overall, international sales accounted for 64% of the quarter's revenue, its highest-ever share for the company.

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Like other élite schools, Stanford has become increasingly diverse.

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While acknowledging meetings, dinners and shared quips with a series of prime ministers and and other members of the British political elite over the years, Mr. Murdoch asserted, “I don’t know many politicians.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) won a partial U.S. International Trade Commission judge’s ruling in its bid to block imports of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s devices including the iPhone and iPad tablet computer.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Time is running out. The European Commission could bring charges against the U.S. company for abusing its dominance in the search and advertising market in the next few weeks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

The episode demonstrated both the power of China's new digital media and the Chinese Communist Party's increasingly iron-fisted effort to control it.

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The long-running tabloid newspaper scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire appeared on Tuesday to have reached into the heart of Prime Minister David Cameron’s government

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Apple ended the quarter with $110.2 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short- and long-term marketable securities.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 5:30 AM | Add Comment

The company sold four million Macintosh computers, up 7% from a year ago.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 7:45 PM | Add Comment

Several cautioned that it signaled a new era in which Mac users become the new target for Windows-style malware attacks.

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So much for "Do no evil...."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 12:16 PM | Add Comment

Microsoft will still retain licenses for 300 additional patents that AOL has retained.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2012 6:31 AM | Add Comment

Net income for the quarter was $205 million, down from $302 million in the fourth quarter and compared with $233 million a year earlier.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

The paper said the order noted that while social media and cell phones had helped democracy advocates organize in the Middle East, they had also enabled security services of autocratic nations such as Syria and Iran

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Apple sells a standard iPhone to carriers for around $600, but consumers pay only $200 when they sign a two-year contract. The difference is the carrier subsidy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

The French Twitter community took its cue — and its numbers — from foreign news outlets, especially those in neighboring Switzerland and Belgium, which laughed off the French regulations as absurd and outdated

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Evil? Hard to know. But certainly weird — and enough to prompt a small fine of $25,000 from the Federal Communications Commission

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Ms. Knight fell for robotics as an undergraduate at MIT.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Selling puts on Apple and Starbucks could make good sense now.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2012 7:32 AM | Add Comment

Enterprise companies tend to be attacking big, established markets where revenues are dependable. Online consumer companies are big and flashy, but they generally stake out new territory that is harder to value.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

But the great columnists of the postwar generation did. Their columns were part of the weaponry of policymaking, and they themselves were powerbrokers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2012 12:30 PM | Add Comment

There is speculation within the technology industry that the supremacy of the PC is over and that Microsoft’s influence is waning along with it.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

News Corp. said it will "revise the suspension of voting rights based on its ongoing monitoring of the level of foreign ownership." News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, broke with tradition by honoring two primarily online publications, Politico and the Huffington Post.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 9:29 AM | Add Comment

Still, the business doesn’t make a lot of money on a per-transaction basis. It scrapes a small fee from every transaction made on Square, which it shares with credit card companies.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Backpage is owned by Village Voice Media, and significant minority stakes have been held in recent years by Goldman Sachs and smaller financial firms such as Trimaran Capital Partners and Alta Communications.

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“It’s not about them protecting intellectual property or protecting the Java community,” Van Nest said of Oracle’s claims. “They want to share in Android’s success without having done a thing to bring that about.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 5:29 PM | Add Comment

“Unquestionably, it’s an effort to define Twitter’s brand in the marketplace and to signal that its perhaps more engineering-friendly than companies that wouldn’t make such a promise,” said Goldman

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 4:15 PM | Add Comment

“Unquestionably, it’s an effort to define Twitter’s brand in the marketplace and to signal that its perhaps more engineering-friendly than companies that wouldn’t make such a promise,” said Goldman

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 4:15 PM | Add Comment

While Amazon remains dominant, its share of the e-book market has fallen to about 60 percent from 90 percent. Barnes and Noble, which has about a quarter of the market, would suffer if Amazon discounts sharply.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Arguing that the nation could run out of spectrum is like saying it was going to run out of a color, says David P. Reed, one of the original architects of the Internet

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 5:30 AM | Add Comment

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, unveiled a new talk show on Tuesday with his own version of a sensational get: the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 5:00 AM | Add Comment

In the wake of high-profile attacks on companies like Sony and Citigroup, insurance brokers reported last summer that interest was soaring in policies to protect against civil suits and regulatory fines from data breaches.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 4:15 PM | Add Comment

Hulu competes with its owners not just for advertising dollars, but for viewers’ time.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

"Short Apple at your peril," said Michael Shea, managing partner at Direct Access Partners

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Verizon Wireless, a U.S. partner of Apple, said last week that it will begin charging customers $30 to upgrade to a new phone.

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“This is an example of social networking in science, and it gives us a power we have not had.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

“This is going to make Iraq an important hub for connecting Asia to Europe,” Mr. Mekky said. “It’s very strategic for the country.”

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“Amazon is squeezing everyone out of business,” said Randall White, EDC’s chief executive. “I don’t like that. They’re a predator. We’re better off without them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 12:31 PM | Add Comment

“This could be a simple ‘collapsing’ on its own weight” after the gains earlier this year, Brian Marshall, an analyst at ISI Group in San Francisco, said in a research note today.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 10:59 AM | Add Comment

A few criminals do well, but cybercrime is a relentless, low-profit struggle for the majority.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

The average Facebook user in United States has 245 friends...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

On Saturday, federal regulators charged that Google had “deliberately impeded and delayed” an investigation into the data collection and ordered a $25,000 fine on the search giant.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

“It’s almost game over at Sony,” said Yoshiaki Sakito, a former Sony executive who has worked for Walt Disney, Bain & Company, Apple and a start-up focused on innovation training.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/15/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

In a highly competitive recruiting climate, it's not uncommon for even Facebook to encounter top design talent playing hard to get.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

What happened next was crazier than they could have imagined.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/14/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Apple’s bluster, though, was unfounded. Amazon may have lost some share in e-books, but it still dominates the fast-growing market.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Google's stock split will also allow the company to hold on to its cash pile of $49 billion, as of the end of March, rather than follow Apple Inc.'s playbook by giving a cash dividend to shareholders.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 2:30 PM | Add Comment

LONDON (Reuters) - A British parliamentary report into a phone hacking scandal may lead eventually to News Corp being forced into cutting or selling its stake in the highly profitable pay-TV firm BSkyB

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“The time for Sony to change is now,” Mr. Hirai said during a news conference, his first since he succeeded Howard Stringer as chief. “Sony will change.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the No. 1 Web search engine

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 5:30 AM | Add Comment

Sony’s troubles also highlight problems that are specific to the Japanese consumer electronics sector, however.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 8:30 PM | Add Comment

The world’s most valuable company has surged 653 percent since March 9, 2009

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Aleynikov’s lawyers had argued that while their client had violated Goldman’s confidentiality policy, he had not broken the law.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 8:30 AM | Add Comment

The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple and major book publishers on Wednesday, charging that the companies colluded to raise the price of e-books in 2010.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/12/2012 5:29 AM | Add Comment

“If you’re looking for a case where the U.S. legal system might throw the golden goose under a bus, then this one is a pretty good candidate,” Wardley said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

Some publishers hit back at the allegations, saying they did nothing wrong and were acting to prevent Amazon from taking a dominant position in e-book retailing.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 8:01 PM | Add Comment

I.B.M. is bringing its answer to the marketplace on Wednesday

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Wrote monkm, an Instagram user. “I must add however that most of us on IG are on here because it’s not FB not that there’s anything wrong with FB it’s just we like the community here…”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Theft Protection... or Just Another Future Tool to Control the Masses???

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/11/2012 7:30 AM | Add Comment

“Our goal is to make a stolen cellphone as worthless as an empty wallet,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Sony Corp flagged a record $6.4 billion annual net loss

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 3:30 PM | Add Comment

“The patent system is making innovation more expensive, but I also think that there has been a lot more focus on the costs than the benefits,” she said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Despite Japan’s significant investment in robotics, he noted that the country did not have any robots capable of completely replacing humans at the time of the Fukushima disaster.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Facebook paid a high premium in part to keep a popular mobile tool out of the hands of a different social-networking provider, such as Google Inc. (GOOG), said Ray Valdes

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/10/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

The deal will also provide AOL with some sorely needed cash as the struggling Internet company continues its attempt to refashion itself as a media content provider.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Violation of Dignity

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The Note suggests Samsung, which last year became the world's top smartphone maker, may have found a way to eat into the tablet market, where it remains a distant second to Apple's iPad.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

In Germany, if a court determines that a company legally holds a patent, it can issue an injunction to ban competing uses if asked.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 9:00 AM | Add Comment

“But it’s not just men on the sites,” you shout. True, although the top porn sites count men as about 75 percent of their visitors.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/9/2012 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Text message spam has started waking Bob Dunnell in the middle of the night, promising cheap mortgages, credit cards and drugs.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 4:00 PM | Add Comment

EHarmony counters that the algorithms it uses do work, citing research it conducted investigating the satisfaction of couples who met through the site, and their divorce rate.

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As a result, he said, “you want to own companies that control their own destiny.”

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AT&T is seeking concessions from its workers including cuts to their pensions and increased health-care premiums and copays to help offset revenue declines in the wireline division

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Why would these companies think it’s a good idea to end third-party billing on land lines, but not cellphones?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

An online store selling the hardware to provide this service even lists “Web experience manipulation” as a feature. It is not clear whether the technology is in use at any other Marriott hotels.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/7/2012 5:01 PM | Add Comment

She thinks Apple could earn $80 a share in 2013, and command $720, maybe even $960, if it just keeps doing what it's doing: "We aren't even baking in potential new sources of revenue."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/7/2012 6:00 AM | Add Comment

But the hundreds of thousands of apps that run on Apple and Android devices will not work on phones like the Lumia 900 that use Microsoft’s Windows Phone software.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/6/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The Justice Department is probing whether Apple’s interaction with publishers over pricing hampered competition in the market for electronic books.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/6/2012 12:45 PM | Add Comment

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