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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp is considering a sale of the Nextel wireless network it bought in 2005, but may have trouble finding a buyer for an asset whose value has plunged about 80 percent to an estimated $5 billion. Sprint has struggled to integrate Nextel’s iDen network, used by public safety and […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc on Tuesday released a recount of the vote for its board that revealed a strong protest vote against five of nine directors, including Chief Executive Jerry Yang. The Internet company said revised vote tallies showed 33.7 percent of votes withheld for Yang, the company’s co-founder, or more than twice […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, […]

BANGALORE (Reuters) – In recent months, personal computer maker Dell Inc. has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said, citing several Dell officials. Dell’s new foray would put it into an Apple-led market that has defied assaults. Companies like Microsoft Corp […]

By Ritsuko Ando NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc. posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday on strong wireless sales and improved margins, offsetting a fall in landline users. Executives said on a conference call that the No. 2 U.S. phone company did not expect a significant impact from the weaker economy, though demand […]

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) – A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits. Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”) is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who has been dogged by investor concerns about his health, does not have recurrent cancer or a life-threatening health issue, The New York Times reported on Saturday. “While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than ‘a common bug,’ they weren’t life-threatening and he doesn’t […]

BRUSSELS, July 25 (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard won permission from European Union competition regulators on Friday to buy technology outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12.6 billion. The deal is aimed at helping HP compete better against IBM in the global technology services industry, and vaults HP to second place behind IBM. EDS is a […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said the German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against Nokia is invalid. “This is the third court to conclude that Qualcomm’s patent claims against Nokia are without merit,” Nokia said. Qualcomm has filed 11 lawsuits on […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc. is making sweeping changes to the world’s largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said late on Sunday. Facebook’s redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it […]

(Reuters) – European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), expanding a probe into the chipmaker’s marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The new charges, which could be brought as soon as Thursday, would allege that […]

By Wojtek Dabrowski TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd (RIM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)(RIMM.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is charging ahead with international expansion plans and investments in new handsets and software to stay competitive, its co-chief executive said. RIM wants to expand BlackBerry service, now available in over 140 […]