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Motorola said Edward J. Zander would be succeeded by Gregory Q. Brown, the company’s chief operating officer.
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A former executive at the chip maker Broadcom is expected to plead guilty to obstruction of justice in a federal investigation of the company’s stock option grants.
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The level of wealth inequality has remained remarkably consistent over the last 2,000 years, according to a recent study.
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AP - AOL on Friday scrapped its year-old pay-for-download service in favor of Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.’s technology for selling movies and TV shows online.
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PC World - A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.
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InfoWorld - A CA security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people's Web activities outside the popular social networking site.
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TechWeb - If nothing else, the mutual pats on the back represent a considerable thaw in the often-chilly relations between Sun and IBM.
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AFP - Facebook has changed its three-week-old advertising platform to soothe members outraged by what they saw as an assault on their privacy at the popular social networking website.

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FT.com - BYD, a Chinese battery maker, plans to list its mobile phone manufacturing unit in Hong Kong in an initial public offering that will raise up to $987m. The IPO comes as investors watch for signs of weaknesses in new listings after Hong Kong's benchmark index suffered its worst monthly drop in more than […]

TJX Companies announced that it will pay up to $40.9 million to Visa card issuers who may have been affected by a massive data breach disclosed by the retailer in January.
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AP - Ed Zander is out as Motorola Inc.’s chief executive after a roller-coaster four years that saw him oversee the cell-phone maker’s Razr-led resurgence but ultimately bear blame for strategic gaffes and product whiffs that led to its steep decline.

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AP - Facebook pushed the boundaries of ad targeting when the online hangout presumed users would want the site to mine all their Internet activity.
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Despite global warming, Antarctica experiences frigid winter, adventurer says.
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InfoWorld - Serena Software will ship its enterprise business mashup software Monday with the goal of enabling quick deployment of simple applications that solve everyday business problems.
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Despite global warming, Antarctica experiences frigid winter.
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After the uproar over Facebook’s system to spread information about its users online purchases to their friends, Coca-Cola is shelving plans to use the system.
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New earphone technology provides rich sound with no hearing loss.
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TechWeb - The changes include new parental controls that let parents set limits on the amount of time their children can spend playing Xbox games during a given period.
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InfoWorld - A new company, Cloudsmith, has created a Web-based service meant to let developers access and exchange "virtual distros," or custom configurations, of open-source software.
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A new study says we may be facing an “exaflood” of higher demand for broadband. The telecom industry is behind the study, which doesn’t mean it is wrong.
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