Articles by Keith Regan

Intel posted first-quarter results Tuesday that met or slightly beat expectations -- the chipmaker lowered its own targets last month -- and posted record revenue for the seasonally slow time of year The company's results were a win for the tech sector, with investors driving Intel shares up about 6 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday to $22.12....

Ten years after the Internal Revenue Service first flipped the switch on electronic tax filing, key lawmakers said Monday the time has come to make e-filing free for all taxpayers -- a move that could cost software makers millions in annual revenues Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Democrat from Hawaii, plan to in...

In a surprise move that could reshape the consumer electronics and movie rental industries, Blockbuster went public Monday with an offer to pay as much as US$1.3 billion to acquire Circuit City Blockbuster announced that it made the offer to Circuit City directly on Feb. 17 but went public with it because the retailer had not responded to requested...

Interactive marketing firm Lyris, best known for its e-mail advertising services, has launched a portal meant to give online marketers a place to foster community and learn from one another Lyris plans to formally launch the LyrisHQ portal at the Ad:tech conference in San Francisco next week. The site is already live, offering content and interacti...

Military gear that could be used in terrorist operations is showing up oneBay and Craigslist, and some lawmakers are calling for action In response to the House Subcommittee on Security and National Affairs' request to investigate online sales of sensitive military equipment, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday that it found a ho...

Verizon has filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, claiming that company's advertising gives a false impression about the telecom firm's new fiber optic-based TV service Verizon filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York....

Yahoo has launched a limited test of Google's AdSense search advertising service, a move that Microsoft immediately slammed as anticompetitive and one that came amid a flurry of new developments in the Microsoft-Yahoo saga The test covers no more than 3 percent of the search queries generated from Yahoo's own Web properties in the United States onl...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received more applications for 2009 H-1B visas than it can issue, exceeding the congressional limit on the tech-friendly program just days after applications were first accepted The agency has received enough petitions for H-1B visas to meet the 65,000 limit set by Congress and also has exce...

Google and the UN High Commission for Refugees -- the United Nations agency responsible for tracking and caring for refugees from the world's conflicts -- unveiled a Web-based mapping tool Tuesday meant to help raise awareness of displaced populations The tool, Google Earth Outreach, will help to highlight efforts to help millions of people forced...

Microsoft tried to light a fire under its apparently stagnating bid to acquire Yahoo over the weekend, with CEO Steve Ballmer saying a lower price could be in the offing if Yahoo doesn't act soon The Web portal was unmoved, however, saying Monday that its board remained open to a deal with the software giant, but not at the original price of around...

Over the past five years, 42 of the technology companies that Mercury Ventures has invested in have made the transition from publicly traded to private firms That is part of a larger trend among smaller publicly traded companies, for whom the benefits of being public no longer clearly outweigh the burdens of complying with the regulatory requiremen...

The financial losses tied to Internet crime reached record levels in 2007, the FBI said Thursday, citing data from its annual Internet Crime Report The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 -- which the FBI operates along with the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center -- fielded 206,884 complaints of crimes perpetrated over the Internet du...

Though the basic outcome of the Federal Communications Commission wireless spectrum auction has been known for some time -- Verizon Wireless and AT&T won major chunks of the spectrum while Google was shut out -- responses to the closely watched event came fast and furious Thursday as the anti-collusion quiet period ended Verizon plans to use the wi...

Working with online car sales leads since the early part of the dot-com era, the cofounders of the Detroit Trading Exchange saw firsthand the inefficiencies in the market and set out to address them The result is a robust and active trading exchange where car dealers and others bid to buy more than 300,000 sales leads generated by consumer-facing W...

Looking to fill what it says is a gap in the consumer's toolbox, real estate site Zillow.com has launched a marketplace to connect home buyers with mortgages Seattle-based Zillow -- best known for its home-price comparison offerings -- is hoping to do for mortgages what the Web has already done for other financial services products, including life ...

Research In Motion posted strong earnings and sales growth in its fourth quarter. The positive news signals that it has not seen the Apple iPhone cut into the market share for its BlackBerry device and that adoption may continue to grow even amid a weakening economy RIM beat Wall Street targets for the quarter ending March 1, shipped a record numbe...

Amazon.com launched a text-message shopping option Tuesday that enables users to search for, compare and buy products via short message service, in addition to its existing browser-based mobile commerce offerings TextBuyIt, as the service is known, joins Amazon's mobile site and a site dedicated for access with the iPhone in Amazon's mobile arsenal...

Despite widespread belief it would dig deeper into its pockets if necessary to land Yahoo, Microsoft has no plans to sweeten its offer for the Web portal, according to published reports Microsoft sees no reason to boost its bid at this time, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources close to the company....

Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure Shell signed the master service agreements, or MSAs, as part of a push to improve its busines...

Providing a shot in the arm to the tech sector amid mounting economic worries, Petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it has doled out some US$4 billion worth of contracts to outsource the management of its core information technology infrastructure Shell signed the master service agreements, or MSAs, as part of a push to improve its busines...