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Time Warner and AOL to demerge at end of the year

Time Warner and AOL are to go their separate ways by the end of the year, a decade after the pair came together in a disastrous deal.

Can you watch on the trot?

News Corp’s online social network MySpace is about to make video clips from its members’ pages available for viewing on mobile devices.

Apple lands HBO for iTunes store

Apple has scooped up Time Warner’s HBO to feed television shows to its online iTunes store, reeling in one of the last holdouts among major channels and agreeing to a rare…

MySpace victorious in $234m spam judgement

The popular online hangout MySpace has won a -million judgement over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award to date. A federal…

Investors eye Yahoo!’s alternatives to Microsoft

Yahoo! faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft’s ,5-billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on…

Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo!

Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo! on Saturday after the internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by -billion to ,5-billion. Microsoft’s offer was…

Google optimistic regulators won’t bar Yahoo!

Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be ”non-exclusive” and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with…

Cheers as Toshiba nears HD DVD surrender

Investors cheered an impending end to a format war for next-generation DVDs on Monday, pushing up shares of both Toshiba, on the verge of abandoning its HD DVD discs, and Sony,…

Murdoch rescue bid for Yahoo! sets up showdown

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (News Corp) is negotiating to rescue embattled internet company Yahoo! through an alliance that could set up a heavyweight business showdown…

Microsoft renews bid despite Yahoo! rejection

Yahoo!’s rejection on Monday of Microsoft’s buyout offer sets the stage for the United States software giant to up the ante or attempt a coup by ousting the internet firm’s board…

Toshiba says HD DVD has not lost out to Blu-ray

Toshiba said on Sunday its HD DVD high-definition video format is not dead despite being dealt a big setback by Warner’s decision to exclusively back Sony rival Blu-ray…

Google hits back at YouTube video pirates

Google has introduced a long-promised video filtering system for its YouTube website. The system is designed to help owners of copyrighted videos crack down on pirated versions…

Google hosts news-service content on own site

Internet search leader Google has begun hosting material produced by the Associated Press and three other news services on its own website instead of only sending readers to…

Yahoo! spruces up its email offering

Yahoo! has introduced new features for its popular web-based email program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them…