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(AP) -- Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world Tuesday heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling advertising revenues. http://www.physorg.com/news178896473.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:28:15 EST news178896473 (AP) -- DirecTV Group Inc. is naming the vice chairman of PepsiCo Inc. as its chief executive. http://www.physorg.com/news177775921.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news177775921 (AP) -- Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177704189.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:19 EST news177704189 US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars. http://www.physorg.com/news177248056.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:01 EST news177248056 Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013. http://www.physorg.com/news177009881.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:48 EST news177009881 Fortune Magazine crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition. http://www.physorg.com/news176665402.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:10:02 EST news176665402 (AP) -- IBM Corp. has placed a top executive on leave after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners. http://www.physorg.com/news175176672.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:11:51 EST news175176672 Dutch electronics giant Philips reported on Monday a surprise profit for the third quarter as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped the bottomline. http://www.physorg.com/news174569430.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:40:21 EST news174569430 Technology companies are hardly the most prominent villains in the ongoing drama over exorbitant executive pay. http://www.physorg.com/news173716689.html Technology Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:04 EST news173716689 US Internet giant Yahoo! said Tuesday it had signed a deal to purchase popular Jordan-based web portal Maktoob, expanding its reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world. http://www.physorg.com/news170403580.html Technology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:30:02 EST news170403580 Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for centuries whether concussions involve structural damage to brain tissue or whether physiological changes that merely impair the way brain cells function, explain this loss. Now, for the first time, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have linked areas of brain injury to specific altered mental processes caused by concussions. http://www.physorg.com/news170331403.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:17:27 EST news170331403 (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third-largest wireless provider, on Wednesday said its loss widened in the second quarter as revenue and subscribers continued to decline. Its shares skidded 10 percent in morning trading. http://www.physorg.com/news168085783.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:50:01 EST news168085783 Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, on medical leave since January for treatment of an undisclosed condition, received a liver transplant about two months ago in Tennessee, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news164687848.html Technology Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:37:46 EST news164687848 (AP) -- Sprint's chief executive says the release of Palm's Pre smart phone represents a "coming out party" for Sprint. http://www.physorg.com/news163426624.html Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:17:35 EST news163426624 Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the online retail giant may never reveal sales figures for the Kindle and a color version of the electronic reader is "multiple" years away. http://www.physorg.com/news162740980.html Electronics Thu, 28 May 2009 14:50:09 EST news162740980 (AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s co-founders say the rapidly growing online communications company will eventually charge fees for its services, but it's unclear which ones and what will drive revenue. http://www.physorg.com/news162620948.html Technology Wed, 27 May 2009 05:29:35 EST news162620948 (AP) -- The Web edition of a cover story from Fortune this spring took a sharp turn from what you might expect at a 79-year-old magazine. http://www.physorg.com/news162396758.html Technology Sun, 24 May 2009 15:13:23 EST news162396758 (AP) -- IBM Corp. is again backing its forecast for profit of $9.20 per share this year. http://www.physorg.com/news161504518.html Technology Thu, 14 May 2009 07:22:21 EST news161504518 (AP) -- The chief executive of Internet search engine Ask.com, Jim Safka, is leaving for personal reasons a little more than a year after he took the post. http://www.physorg.com/news161372496.html Technology Tue, 12 May 2009 18:42:03 EST news161372496 Microsoft launched its first bond issue on Monday, sparking rumors the US software giant was contemplating a takeover bid. http://www.physorg.com/news161281473.html Technology Mon, 11 May 2009 17:24:57 EST news161281473 Financial information provider Thomson Reuters said Thursday that profits climbed in the first quarter of the year despite challenging market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news160924752.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:19:36 EST news160924752 Human rights trump doing business, Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz insisted at a summit of Internet allies combining forces to battle censorship by oppressive regimes. http://www.physorg.com/news160806034.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 05:22:39 EST news160806034 (AP) -- Despite a widening net loss, Sprint Nextel Corp. finally got some good news in its long recovery Monday, as a big surge in "prepaid" customers offset another nightmarish drop in valuable subscribers who sign annual contracts. http://www.physorg.com/news160666483.html Technology Mon, 04 May 2009 14:35:06 EST news160666483 (AP) -- Congress put cable TV operators on notice that it will scrutinize their plans to roll out targeted advertising to viewers, questioning whether they will use set-top boxes sitting in millions of homes to monitor and store what people watch. http://www.physorg.com/news159714145.html Technology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:02:52 EST news159714145 (AP) -- MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe will step down soon as the social networking site's chief executive, amid the site's stalled user growth and the rapid rise of rival Facebook. http://www.physorg.com/news159648793.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:53:33 EST news159648793 MySpace on Monday invited its members to become volunteer "uReporters" by supplying news pictures or videos for use at the social networking website and Fox News network. http://www.physorg.com/news159469114.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:58:58 EST news159469114 The New York Times unveiled plans on Thursday to eliminate several weekly sections of the newspaper in the latest cost-cutting move at the prestigious but financially troubled daily. http://www.physorg.com/news159121671.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:28:20 EST news159121671 US online auction giant eBay will take a controlling stake in South Korea's biggest online marketplace Gmarket in a deal worth up to 1.2 billion dollars, the two companies announced on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159080142.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:57:33 EST news159080142 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s next version of its Office desktop programs will reach consumers next year, though not likely in conjunction with the Windows 7 operating system. http://www.physorg.com/news158991235.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:14:37 EST news158991235 (AP) -- EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering, undoing a $2.6 billion acquisition that puzzled analysts and eBay struggled to justify. http://www.physorg.com/news158949373.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:37:27 EST news158949373