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The online auctioneer, citing 'abusive distribution agreements,' asks Brussels' antitrust chief to investigate companies that prevent sellers from offering goods online

Plans to target deepwater oil vessels belonging to Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron raise fears that the upsurge in fighting could put multi-billion dollar investments at risk

Time Warner will decide the future of its AOL online division "fairly soon", its chief executive told investors on Wednesday, as he signalled a long-awaited resolution to the problem

IBM is applying a common research model, collaboration between academia and the private sector, to the social media tech space. The IBM Center for Social Software is the first instance of a tech company establishing a center around these very popular emerging -- but still consumer-focused -- technologies, according to Big Blue. The Center's mission is to develop ways to effectively apply next-generation Web 2.0 technologies within a corporate environment. Indeed, chief among its goals is designing IBM's future Web 2.0 collaboration portfolio.

Rumors began bubbling up Tuesday that Google plans to acquire game maker Valve, developer of the "Half-Life" series and the Steam content distribution platform. The speculation began after a report cited "well-placed sources" claiming Google would very soon purchase Valve. The Internet search giant could be eying the Bellevue, Wash-based game maker in order to get its hands on the Steam content distribution technology. Google's Jon Murchison told TechNewsWorld the company had no comment on the possible acquisition.

Sky says Kangaroo's 'access to direct and indirect state funding', because its shareholders are public service broadcasters, gives it a 'unique' advantage

When Oracle, the world's second biggest software company, reports its latest earnings on Thursday, it will highlight an inconvenient truth for the US technology industry

London explorer poised to move centre stage of South African gold mining after it won government approval to revive a swathe of gold mines in the Jo'burg area

Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung has launched a $5.85 billion hostile takeover bid of flash memory chipmaker SanDisk. News of the all-cash offer for SanDisk caused shares of the Milpitas, Calif.-based company to skyrocket more than 40 percent in early morning trading. SanDisk, which rebuffed an earlier offer from Samsung last May, also rejected Samsung's latest bid. SanDisk Chairman and CEO Eli Harari said Samsung's unsolicited acquisition offer severely undervalues SanDisk.

Shares in US memory chipmaker SanDisk rose nearly 40 per cent after it rejected a $5.8bn takeover bid by Samsung, but showed that it had left the door open for a higher offer

The FT media team report from the annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York

Shares in Nortel plunged after the Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer issued a sales and profit warning and put one of its fastest growing businesses up for sale

Shares in Nortel plunged after the Canadian telecommunications equipment manufacturer issued a sales and profit warning and put one of its fastest growing businesses up for sale

News Corporation is to increase subscription revenues from Dow Jones by more than $300m a year for the next three years, Rupert Murdoch said as he spelled out his hopes to cut the group's reliance on 'old media' advertising.

The South Korean chipmaker has traditionally favoured organic growth to expand its global presence but its attitude towards cross-border acquisitions is changing

SanDisk, the US memory chipmaker, has rebuffed a $5.8bn takeover approach by Samsung, its South Korean rival, rejecting the offer as 'inadequate in multiple respects'

It makes sense to relocate virtual storage structures (e.g. data, applications, VMs) and to occasionally move virtual applications as a best practice to keep centralized datacenters as up to date as possible.

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