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• Apple claims US government sides with monopoly in e-book case

  By John Ribeiro | 24 May, 2012 05:35

  The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

• Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

  By Cameron Scott | 19 May, 2012 09:43

  The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

• Final count down to Facebook's IPO begins

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 23:43

  After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

• If Facebook's IPO goes south, social, tech markets could take a hit

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 04:38

  With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?

• Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO

  By Sharon Gaudin | 17 May, 2012 00:06

  Facebook's initial public offering may be getting even bigger.

• Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2012 06:31

  Just one day into the job, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is in charge of a company struggling with administrative chaos, industry position and growing competitors.

• FTC shuts down website marketing business

  By Grant Gross | 15 May, 2012 04:50

  A U.S. court has shut down the operations of a company that allegedly promised it would build its customers websites that would generate income of up to US$20,000 per month, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint about its business practices.

• With another CEO out, Yahoo's turnaround stalled

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2012 01:42

  For the second time in eight months, Yahoo is without a permanent CEO. The latest development is bringing more trouble for a company struggling to regain its stature in the industry.

• 10 questions for ideeli CTO Mark Uhrmacher

  By Nancy Weil | 10 May, 2012 00:20

  Name: Mark Uhrmacher

• Target to stop selling Amazon Kindles in its stores

  By Matt Hamblen | 05 May, 2012 02:49

  Target plans to stop selling Kindle e-readers in its brock-and-mortar stores after seeing buyers test the devices in its showrooms only to later buy them online from Amazon.

• Privy offers social daily deal alternative

  By Nick Barber | 04 May, 2012 04:17

  Pizza chain owner Melissa Ferriman wanted to boost business using an online social deal promotion. She tried services like Groupon, but eventually chose Boston-based Privy because it connected her restaurant with customers who weren't just looking for the next promotion.

• VMware to offer enterprise application portal

  By Joab Jackson | 02 May, 2012 22:06

  VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.

• Crowdfunding: The latest way to get your project funded

  By Ken Gagne | 02 May, 2012 21:44

  Programmers, manufacturers and developers who want to realize their creative vision without signing onerous contracts or relinquishing rights to their intellectual property now have an alternative to venture capitalists. Crowdfunding -- the collection of funds directly from a target audience -- has taken off. Small donations are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars, many of them channeled through a service called Kickstarter.

• Nintendo to begin digital sales of mainstream titles for 3DS

  By Jay Alabaster | 27 April, 2012 13:36

  Nintendo will launch sales of digital versions of mainstream 3DS titles through retailers, beginning with a new Super Mario Brothers game in August, it said Friday.

• Google calls on Detroit for self-driving car project

  By Sharon Gaudin | 27 April, 2012 08:14

  Google plans to move ahead with its self-driving car technology and hopes to get a hand from the folks in Detroit.