SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. aims to be one of the top two players in the online advertising market in three to five years, a company executive in charge of the business said on Thursday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean university student Seong-sun is a rebel without a TV. Like other twentysomethings in tech-friendly parts of the world, Seong-sun, 27, uses his laptop to watch user-generated content and can see programming on his mobile phone.
DETROIT (Billboard) - As he rolls out a new DVD and expanded edition of his latest album, Paul McCartney is predicting the Beatles' catalog will make its long-awaited arrival in the digital realm next year.
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. military's operating manual for the Guantanamo prison camp has been posted on the Internet, providing a glimpse of the broad rules and tiniest minutia for detaining suspected terrorists.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic head of the House Judiciary Committee voiced frustration on Wednesday about what he said are disparities in the enforcement of U.S. Internet gambling laws.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A demand from European Union lawmakers to regulate how authors and composers receive cash for downloaded works has been rejected by the bloc's executive arm.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc has signed its largest contract ever to provide its Web-based sales and marketing software for use by 30,000 Citigroup office workers, its top executive said on Thursday.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company's emergence as the lifeblood of the Internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese espionage posed "the single greatest risk" to U.S. technology, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday and called for efforts to protect industrial secrets and computer networks.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Expedia Inc, owner of the largest U.S. online travel agency, and InterContinental Hotels Group Plc, the world's largest hotelier, have entered a deal that offers its rooms on Expedia sites globally, the two companies said on Thursday.
