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eBay Bites Bullet, Jettisons 1,000 Jobs
Online auctioneering pioneer eBay announced it will slash 1,000 jobs and acquire online payment processor…
Facebook’s Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More
One of Facebook’s two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin…
Ford’s 2010 cars will let parents set speed limit for teens (AP)
AP – So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the…
IBM Shifts Focus To Cloud Computing with New Services (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor – IBM is getting in the cloud. After a string of announcements over the…
SEC Probes Posting About Steve Jobs Heart Attack
On Friday a report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and…
Ask.com Boasts Semantic Search Enhancements
In a move to compete against Google, search engine Ask.com on Monday launched a new…
iPhone 3G Entices Mobile-Carrier Defections
The NPD Group, a market-research firm, reports that 30 percent of the U.S. consumers who…
New Readers, Software Heat Up E-Book Market
The battle over e-readers is heating up rapidly, thanks to new hardware entries from the…
eBay To Drop 1,000 Employees, Buy Two Companies
One of the Internet’s long-running success stories, global auction operator eBay, announced Monday that it…