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Online brokerage E*Trade has named Donald H. Layton as its new chief executive officer, giving the financial services industry veteran the task of stemming a stock price drop and finding profitable growth opportunities ...

Even in a post CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) world, where legal protections and technological advances give consumers more control than ever over their inboxes, e-mail remains a key component of many interactive marketing strategies ...

Wikileaks.org won a reprieve Friday from a judge's order that had shut down its U.S. site for more than a week. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets. He issued the new ruling after he heard a fresh round of arguments Friday ...

PC maker Dell posted double-digit sales growth for its fourth quarter, but missed analysts' profit and revenue targets. The results suggest that the onetime market leader's new retail strategy and turnaround plans are still works in progress ...

Tension appears to be rising days after a hearing that was meant to help clear the air over the flap involving Comcast's management of Internet traffic. Some groups claim the public was deliberately shut out of the hearing by Comcast, and New York State investigators are asking the cable company to turn over records relating to its practices ...

Sprint unveiled a US$29.5 billion loss for its fourth quarter, much of it tied to the lower-than-expected value of its Nextel acquisition. The company will not pay out a dividend to shareholders as it seeks to preserve cash resources while it tries to engineer a turnaround plan ...

Google Thursday launched a wiki-like Web information-sharing tool that the search company hopes will become a quick-start collaboration platform and a place to tie together work done on its growing family of productivity applications ...

The Federal Communications Commission is prepared to step in and prevent Internet service providers from arbitrarily regulating Web traffic to control demand on their networks if it deems such moves are necessary ...

In a bid to retain its leadership in the gaming space amid growing competition, Electronic Arts has launched a US$2 billion takeover bid against rival Take-Two Interactive, an offer quickly rejected by the smaller company as "inadequate." ...

T-Mobile confirmed Thursday it is testing an Internet-based callingplan meant to replace traditional land lines, a move that came just a day after it joined key rivals in announcing a flat-rate mobile plan that could help change the economics of the wireless industry ...

Microsoft is making broad changes to its technological and business practices in an effort to make its most popular products more open and interoperable with those from other vendors ...

Three of the four largest wireless carriers rolled out new flat-fee monthly subscription options that let users talk as much as they want, sparking concerns among investors about a profit-sapping price war in the mobile space ...

A Swiss bank has succeeded in at least temporarily shutting down the U.S. version of a Web site where a former bank employee posted internal documents he claims showed the bank was being used to hide and launder money. Earlier, a judge approved an order taking down the Web site ...

With significant recent defections threatening to make what was expected to be a close and ongoing battle for next-generation DVD supremacy a rout in favor of Sony's Blu-ray format, Toshiba is reportedly close to pulling the plug on HD DVD ...

Microsoft has announced one of its most sweeping executive reorganizations in years, promoting 14 and announcing the departure of three. Many of the changes are aimed at the online and mobile units, where the overlap with potential acquisition target Yahoo is the greatest ...

Just days after announcing a major mobile acquisition, Microsoft reportedly is poised to shake up the upper management of its mobile division after the group's former director departed to take a position with Vodafone ...

Yahoo has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. about a partnership, merger or similar arrangement, according to reports. Such a deal would help fend off Microsoft's unsolicited US$44.6 billion bid to take over the portal and create an Internet force capable of rivaling Google ...

Cable carrier Comcast on Wednesday defended its practice of managing Web-based traffic over its network as legal and necessary, providing new fodder for the network neutrality debate even as a lawmaker revived legislation to require that all Internet traffic be treated equally ...

Struggling wireless carrier Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it would add an activist investor who has been agitating for changes at the company to its board of directors ...

AT&T will deliver WiFi access in thousands of Starbucks locations across the country as the coffee chain parts ways with former access partner T-Mobile ...