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SANTA CLARA, California (Reuters) – Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini said on Wednesday the company has seen price erosion for certain memory chips in the first quarter that is nearly twice what it had predicted. Otellini said Intel’s forecast for price erosion from the fourth quarter to the first quarter in NAND flash memory […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Web search leader Google Inc. plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos after it agreed a partnership with YuMe, an online video advertising network. YuMe, a Redwood City, California-based start-up, said on Thursday, it will serve InVideo overlay adverts as part of Google’s AdSense for video beta advertising […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut payrolls for the first time in 4-1/2 years in January, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report that showed the slowing economy was at growing risk of sliding into recession. A separate report showing a modest revival in manufacturing at the beginning of 2008 took some sting […]

LAS VEGAS—Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang on Jan. 7 highlighted his vision for reinvigorating the pioneering Web company and solidifying Yahoo’s role as the essential starting point for Web users. In the co-founder’s first major speech since taking over as CEO in June, Yang told an industry conference about inroads Yahoo is making in putting […]

LAS VEGAS (Reuters)—Yahoo Inc will create versions of its mobile Internet services to run on various phone platforms, potentially including Google’s phone software and the Apple iPhone, a top executive said on Monday. Yahoo is ready to demonstrate its commitment to mix and match services of its own with those of rivals in a new, […]

NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters)—Systemax Inc on Sunday said it reached an agreement with CompUSA Inc to buy its brand, trademarks, e-commerce business and as many as 16 retail stores from the gadgets and electronics retailer. Systemax said the deals total cost—which it expects to be about $30 million—depend on which retail locations it takes […]

NEW YORK (Reuters)3Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the worlds second largest music company, will this month become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads, also known as digital rights management (DRM). Sony BMG, home to artists including Beyonce, Britney Spears and Celine Dion, said on Monday it will […]

LAS VEGAS—Motorola, the worlds third biggest mobile phone maker, on Jan. 6 unveiled two new phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service Soundbuzz as it looks to stem recent market share losses. Motorola unveiled the Rokr E8 music phone which, when switched on, is controlled by virtual buttons that vibrate when touched. […]

LAS VEGAS—Yahoo Jerry Yang will seek on Jan. 7 to demonstrate in his first major speech since taking over as chief executive in June the inroads the company is making putting Web services on mobile phones. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, an industry agenda-setting conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, […]

LAS VEGAS (Reuters)—JVC on Sunday unveiled an LCD TV less than 3 inches thick, calling it the worlds thinnest flat-screen television, as the Consumer Electronics Show began in Las Vegas. Also at the show, JVC, formally called Victor Co of Japan Ltd, said it would unveil four new LCD models that each sport a built-in […]