Articles by Keith Regan

Lyris Technologies said China-based Alibaba will use its e-mail marketing solution to handle messaging to both Chinese and international members who use the site to import and export goods Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company operating in China today, will use ListManager to manage its communications with members who live in 200 countries and te...

Hewlett-Packard's CEO and former Chairman were grilled by members of Congress Thursday on their part in the now infamous investigation into boardroom leaks at the computer maker, but the company may have escaped the embarrassing public grilling without any further damage to its corporate reputation In fact, HP shares moved higher Friday morning, af...

American Greetings bought BlueMountain.com more than five years ago, scooping up one of the pioneers in the online greeting cards field to build out its own e-cards business At the time, BlueMountain had built a strong following on the Web, using an artsy approach to cards designs and messages that resonated with its target audience....

In the latest sign that marketplace demand for branded mobile services is not as strong as once believed, ESPN said it would shut down the Mobile ESPN service and turn its attention to licensing its content to existing carriers Mobile ESPN launched early this year as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). It went live behind a strong marketing p...

The boardroom investigation scandal at Hewlett-Packard claimed another high-profile resignation Thursday, with General Counsel Ann O. Baskins quitting, a move announced just hours before CEO Mark Hurd and other executives were due to testify before Congress HP announced Baskins' resignation in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (S...

Shares of Red Hat plunged 23 percent Wednesday after the maker of Linux software said its second quarter profit fell on stock options costs. The company also cut its cash-flow forecast for the rest of the year Red Hat said profits in the second quarter were down more than 32 percent, largely due to the impact of accounting for stock options as exp...

Internet advertising revenues reached record levels in the first half of 2006, with sales up some 37 percent over the same period last year, according to an industry group's latest check on the booming sector Web-based advertising sales reached US$7.9 billion in the first six months of this year, theInternet Advertising Bureau said. Online ad sales...

Two employees of Hewlett-Packard and a contractor hired to help investigate boardroom media leaks have been subpoenaed to testify before Congress Senior counsel Kevin Hunsaker and Global Security Manager Anthony Gentilucci both received subpoenas to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight and investigations subcommittee o...

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) says its running tally of data breaches shows nearly 94 million instances of data being exposed in less than two years of tracking such events, a veritable red flag of private information at risk The PRC said its tally shows the total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in secu...

Hoping to turn its reach across various digital platforms into a competitive advantage in its battle with Google, Microsoft said Monday it would launch a cross-platform advertising solution to give marketers access to advertising slots on Xbox video games, Web-enabled mobile phones and personal digital assistants, as well as traditional Web advertising placements...

Microsoft is contemplating a plan that would have it post online a free, ad-supported version of some of its productivity tools, a shift in strategy likely spurred by Google's entry into the same space Though Microsoft has moved to make more of its software available online through its Windows Live initiative, it has held back on bringing Office in...

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd scheduled a press conference for late Friday afternoon, seeking to answer questions about his involvement in the boardroom-level investigation into press leaks that is now the subject of a criminal probe HP announced that Hurd would speak to reporters after the U.S. stock markets closed for the day, or around 4 p.m. ED...

A new effort to reduce the amount of child pornography available on the Internet is being launched with federal officials and private groups poised to shut down Web sites, including those that aren't necessarily the subject of criminal charges or investigations Several major Internet service providers (ISPs) have joined with the National Center for...

In what could be a major shift in the social networking landscape, Yahoo reportedly has held talks to purchase Facebook, which trails rival MySpace.com in terms of total users, but has found traction among the college-age demographic with a more restrictive membership approach Yahoo could pay as much as US$1 billion for Facebook, according to a Wal...

Internet stocks dropped Tuesday afterYahoo said its third-quarter financial results would lean toward the low end of its earlier guidance, sparking concerns that the Web advertising boom may be cooling and that theportal is seeing the first signs of an economic slowdown Relatively slow ad sales in certain sectors will cause Yahoo to fall short of t...

In a bid to extend its reach further into the enterprise marketplace, Motorola has agreed to buy Symbol Technologies in a deal worth around US$3.9 billion Symbol's products include a range of mobile solutions for businesses, including radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies such as bar-code readers, as well as remote payment systems and ...

Intel and security vendor Check Point Software Technologies are launching a jointly developed solution they say maximizes Intel chips to produce faster data security products and eliminates bottlenecks that occur when massive amounts of data are filtered through slower processors The companies said the new combinations of software and chipsets are ...

AOL and Intel on Monday launched a Web-based video service meant to combine AOL's extensive video library with Intel's hardware expertise in a bid to accelerate the adoption of Internet-based video-on-demand The joint venture combined the recently revamped AOL Video channel with the Intel Viiv line of PCs, which are designed to optimize the media-v...

Dell said it will invest more than US$250 million to build a new computer plant in Poland, a move meant to help the PC maker target a key emerging market in central and eastern Europe The company said it had signed an agreement with the Polish government on Monday to build the plant in the city of Lodz. The factory is expected to employ around 1,00...

Likely seeing better opportunities to leverage the News Corp. brand across multiple channels, Rupert Murdoch is reportedly in talks with partner Liberty Media on a deal that would give him full control of News Corp Murdoch and Liberty have traded proposals to have Liberty exchange its stake in News Corp. for a controlling share in satellite TV prov...