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Amazon.com workers handle shipping for online orders. Online retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season - even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales.

THE Iraqi Government launched an official YouTube channel today, joining the White House, Britain's Royal Family, the Pope and others on the Google-owned video-sharing site.

LinkedIn, the world's biggest professional social network, will probably pursue an initial public offering some time but not in the near future, co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman told Reuters.

Deals with Google and Virgin Media took the spotlight away from TiVo's fiscal third-quarter loss Wednesday, as analysts said the company stands to benefit from the new agreements.

GOOGLE executives could be jailed over a video showing a teen with Down's Syndrome being bullied.

Nov. 25 -- Facebook Inc., the world's biggest social-networking site, introduced a dual-class stock structure to let current shareholders hold onto voting control.

Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.

NVIDIA announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected all 17 claims in three Rambus patents that the company had asserted against the GPU maker in the International Trade Comission .

U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company.

Tags: Microsoft Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell will leave the company at the end of 2009.

Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

Two adjacent Southern California cities have been competing for the factory where Tesla Motors will build its all-electric 2012 Model S luxury sports sedan .

Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.

Networking gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent as hefty costs offset a surge in revenue, but reiterated its guidance for fiscal 2010.

Data Robotics has added two new products, enhancing both the basic Drobo and the more capable Drobo Pro.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Chrome OS and Android are likely to merge at some point, say reports.

Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.

The Microsoft logo hangs from a window during the grand opening of a retail store in Arizona.

The outage is made worse for the online tat bazaar because it is moving away from mom'n'pop traders to more professional sellers who expect better service, in exchange for their fees.

Google Voice was GrandCentral before Google acquired that company back in 2007. Like most Google acquisitions it took a long time to fully rebuild the service on Google's infrastructure, and even today Google Voice is still in private beta.