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Inside Apple's secret plan to kill the cash register

Apple's plans for a Bluetooth 4.0-based iWallet could be the beginning of the end for the venerable cash register.

Update: Facebook shares rise as trading begins

After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

If Facebook's IPO goes south, social, tech markets could take a hit

With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?

Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO

Facebook is working to increase the size of its IPO by 85 million shares -- a move could lift the value the company's upcoming stock offering to about $18.5 billion.

QuickPoll: Is Facebook's IPO overhyped?

Facebook has raised the price range of its stock shares just days before the company's highly anticipated initial public offering. Is Facebook's IPO overhyped?

Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo

Just one day into the job, Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is in charge of a company struggling with administrative chaos, industry position and growing competitors.

Facebook privacy head suggests company will serve ads on other sites

Facebook's head of privacy policy, Erin Egan, hinted in a Web chat on Monday that Facebook would begin serving targeted ads to users on third-party websites.

FTC shuts down website marketing business

A federal court in Arizona has shut down the operations of a company that allegedly promised it would build its customers websites that would generate income of up to $20,000 per month, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint about its business practices.

With another CEO out, Yahoo's turnaround stalled

For the second time in eight months, Yahoo is without a permanent CEO. The latest development brings more trouble to a company struggling to regain its stature in the industry.

Apple's e-store satisfaction score jumps, thumps Microsoft's

Apple's online store scored the highest satisfaction rating of any computer-related company, and handily beat rival Microsoft, a consumer pollster said today.

Apple wants iphone5.com domain handed over

Apple is disputing ownership of the iphone5.com domain, sparking speculation that the company will use the long-rumored name for its next smartphone.

Target to stop selling Amazon Kindles in its stores

Target plans to stop selling Kindle e-readers in its brock-and-mortar stores after seeing buyers test the devices in its showrooms only to later buy them online from Amazon.

VMware to offer enterprise application portal

VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.

Walmart to expand disc-to-cloud movie service to 30 countries

Walmart's cloud video service, Vudu, which allows DVD and Blu-ray disc owners gain access to that content in the cloud, will reportedly expand to as many as 30 new countries.

Google calls on Detroit for self-driving car project

Google plans to move ahead with its self-driving car technology and hopes to get a hand from the folks in Detroit.

Craigslist may be headed for a makeover

Craigslist late last week posted an ad looking for a "hands-on" senior user interface engineer, along with a front-end and usability engineers.

YouTube must filter content, German court rules

YouTube must filter content uploaded by users a German court ruled on Friday.

Does timing of Facebook IPO matter?

Reports circulated Thursday that Facebook's initial public offering could arrive on May 17.

Google introduces new TV-like metrics for measuring ads

Google is introducing tools that measure the percentage of an online advertisement that is viewed and for what duration, to help advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns beyond impressions and clicks.

Operators of online drug ring arrested in global sweep

The alleged ringleader of an online marketplace for illegal drugs was arrested Monday in Lelystad, Netherlands, capping two days of arrests and the indictment of eight men on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges.