Articles by Keith Regan

Microsoft said China-basedsearch engineBaidu.com will begin displaying paid search listings on the software giant's Chinese Web sites this month Such Microsoft sites as MSN and Windows Live will display Baidu's paid search listings, as will other partner sites in Microsoft's network....

Taking aim at a greater slice of the corporate computing pie, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft said Wednesday they would join forces on a three-year, US$300 million effort to sell more software and service solutions to large enterprises where common rival IBM is a strong player The two companies said the new effort would build on their past cooperatio...

The Congressional panel probing Hewlett-Packard's use of pretexting and other tactics during its investigation of boardroom press leaks is now focusing on a stock sale by HP CEO Mark Hurd Lawmakers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee are interested in Hurd's reasons for cashing out some US$1.37 million worth of HP stock on the same day he ...

During 2006, Enron executives were sent to jail for their role in the corporate scandal that rocked the U.S. and brought about sweeping regulatory reforms meant to protect investors and raise the bar among corporations In passing Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress hoped to avoid such high-level corporate scandals in the future, and return investor confidence...

Hoping to attract and retain top talent as it continues to grow at breakneck pace, Google said Tuesday it would institute a unique program to enable employees to directly sell their vested stock options Google plans to work with Wall Street banking house Morgan Stanley to establish an online auction system through which certain employees can sell v...

Research In Motion is suing hand-held device maker Samsung, claiming the company is causing confusion and diminishing the brand power of RIM's BlackBerry by selling a smartphone known as the BlackJack In a suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Waterlook, Ontario-based RIM asked a judge to issue an injunction orde...

Antitrust regulators in the U.S., South Korea and Japan are investigating whether major providers of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology engaged in anti-competitive behavior Shares of LCD makers such as LG.Philips and Samsung Electronics plummeted in overseas trading after news broke that both Japanese and U.S. regulators were looking into comp...

Hewlett-Packard said Monday longtime Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Bob Wayman will retire at the end of the year, cutting another tie from the original HP Wayman, 61, joined HP in 1969, serving first as an accountant before making his way up the ranks. He's held the CFO title since 1984 and served as interim CEO after the departure of ...

Four major media companies are reportedly in discussions about launching their own Web-based video sharing site to compete with Google's YouTube CBS, Viacom, NBC Universal and News Corp. are said to have held discussions about creating a rival to the wildly popular video sharing site, which Google purchased in October for US$1.65 billion....

Hoping to boost confidence in electronic voting, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has voted to create standards for the certification testing of the often-controversial e-voting machines The commission voted Thursday to adopt the Voting Systems Testing and Certification Program, a manual focused on evaluating and certifying e-voting ma...

Oracle said Thursday it was increasing its offer and boosting the number of shares it will buy of India-based banking software firm i-flex as the database and applications giant tries to convince more of the firm's shareholders to sell The company said it would increase the number of i-flex shares it would buy to 35 percent of the total outstanding...

In search, 2006 was a year of launches, re-launches and major partnership deals. Microsoft launched its ad platform. Yahoo started rolling out its improved paid ad platform, Panama. Google partnered with AOL and MySpace and bought YouTube. The search engine once known as "Jeeves" booted the butler and began life anew as "Ask.com." In the end, after...

Yahoo said Tuesday it would undertake a major corporate restructuring aimed at capturing more of the growth in online advertising, with two top executives leaving the company and a third taking on an expanded role Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker will leave that post to become head of the newly created advertiser and publisher group, which incl...

Leading social networking site MySpace was forced to shut down hundreds of user profile pages after a combination worm and phishing attack struck the site over the weekend The worm, discovered late last week, targeted the Javascript support code associated with Apple's QuickTime player in conjunction with a vulnerability in MySpace itself. MySpace ...

The chip-making industry appears to be entering a period of consolidation, with a series of deals announced Monday suggesting firms are seeking to expand their technology portfolios and reduce costs by merging with onetime rivals The largest of the deals calls for LSI Logic to purchase rival storage and communications chipmaker Agere Systems for US...

Qualcomm said Monday it had acquired Airgo Networks, a leading maker of next-generation WiFi tools, and purchased most of the Bluetooth chip interests of RF Micro Devices Qualcomm did not disclose the purchase price it paid for privately held Airgo, whose technology is being built into many notebook computers, home and office-based routers and othe...

In a bid to grab market share in a growing specialty area, Ask.com launched a revamped local search offering Monday, saying it was the first to offer intuitive search for finding neighborhood businesses along with bundled tools such as mapping and extensive, locally focused content With AskCity, IAC/Interactive is attempting to leverage its extensi...

Two major chipmakers said Friday they had received subpoenas from antitrust investigators focusing on the market for graphics processing units and related chipsets Both AMD and Nvidia announced they had received the subpoenas early Friday and both said they planned to cooperate with investigators from the San Francisco Office of the Antitrust Divis...

A two-month-old shareholder lawsuit alleging that Hewlett-Packard's boardroom spying scandal cost investors millions of dollars was amended this week to add claims of insider trading The suit, filed in California's Santa Clara County Superior Court on behalf of all HP shareholders, had previously alleged breach of fiduciary responsibilities by top ...

Intuit, which makes financial management software popular among small businesses and consumers, said Thursday it had agreed to buy Digital Insight, a provider of Web-based banking services, in a deal worth US$1.35 billion Intuit agreed to pay $39 per share in cash for the Calabasas, Calif.-based firm, which provides back-end support for banking ser...