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(Fortune Small Business) -- Wireless technology makes it easier than ever to work from the road. But laptops get stolen and Wi-Fi networks at airports, coffee shops and hotels can expose users to increasingly sophisticated forms of cybercrime.
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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Cisco CEO John Chambers likes to talk about his company as the Internet's "plumber" - the company that provides the gear and services on which the world's data services run.
By that definition, tech company NeuStar (NSR) is a plumbe..
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The news this week that Blockbuster Video has hired advisors to explore "restructuring" options, which analysts say could include a bankruptcy filing, is bittersweet to the movie rental business's remaining indie stores.
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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- MySpace, the News Corp.-owned social networking site, is off to a rough year. Growth has slowed (the number of U.S. visitors has hovered around 75 million for the last seven months), top talent is leaving the company, and like other..
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- A federal judge Wednesday ordered ex-Qwest Communications International Inc. Chief Executive Joseph Nacchio to report to prison in Pennsylvania by March 23 to begin serving a sentence for insider trading.
Nacchio will serve the s..
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(Fortune Magazine) -- Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Mark Twain's advice was apt in its time but sounds downright quaint these days. The ink-stained publishing world is battling against companies like Google and Yahoo that sel..
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(Fortune Magazine) -- It is the buzz of the tech world: Cisco Systems may soon try selling servers, those heavy-duty computers that companies use to run critical back-office applications. The prospect of router giant Cisco's entering the already crowded $..
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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Against a backdrop of plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs for paper and delivery, Hearst Corp., is getting set to launch an electronic reader that it hopes can do for periodicals what Amazon's Kindle..
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(Fortune Small Business) -- Alan Minton, vice president of Cornerstone Information Systems, was hardly opposed to taking business trips. After all, travel is part of his core business. Cornerstone, a 70-employee firm based in Bloomington, Ind., makes auto..
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Dell Inc. posted lower fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and sales Thursday, and the computer maker increased its cost-cutting goal to $4 billion from $3 billion in the face of challenging economic conditions.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen is leaving the Internet company, the latest in a series of executive departures since CEO Carol Bartz took the reins six weeks ago.
Yahoo has initiated a search for a new CFO a..
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- U.S. Internet firm Yahoo Inc. is "not opposed" to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search business, Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said Wednesday.
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(Fortune) -- While traveling in China, Genevieve Bell figured she'd have no trouble getting a cell phone. With cash, a passport and official documents from her employer, she went to a local shop where phone packages lined the walls, and asked for one.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Hit hard by the recession, two U.S.-based tech companies announced job cuts that will put 5,000 people out of work.
Spansion (SPSN), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said on Monday that it will cut 3,000 jobs, or 35% of its total wo..
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the Federal Trade Commission's appeal in its suit against Rambus Inc. that accused the memory chip maker of "deceptive conduct," sending the company's shares up as much as 16% in ea..
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- I need to take a break from all the gloom in the markets and economy for an Andy Rooney-esque rant. Indulge me.
I don't know about you. But I'm sick of all the Facebook hype.
For the record, I am not on Facebook, and the recen..
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(Fortune Magazine) -- As consumers everywhere look to scale back their discretionary spending, many people are cutting corners in what could turn out to be the worst possible place - their drugs - and falling prey to a dangerous new breed of pharmaceutica..
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. cut its full-year profit outlook after quarterly revenue missed expectations on weak sales of printers, personal computers and servers, sending its shares down 3%.
While HP's diversified business lines - whi..
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Blackberry maker Research in Motion announced Tuesday that the company and four current and former officers have settled an options backdating case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC charged Ontario, Can..
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(Fortune Magazine) -- Facebook held no appeal for Peter Lichtenstein. The New Paltz, N.Y., resident had checked out so-called social networking sites before, and he wasn't impressed. ("MySpace," he recalls, "was ridiculous.")
A chiropractor and acupunctu..
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