Thomas Kurian is taking over the pivotal effort to make sense of the bevy of business software products acquired during CEO Ellison's three-year spree

  Adoption of a federal list intended to limit monitoring of Web surfers could lead to a barrage of extra advertising—on some of the most popular sites

  Among the Asia telecom news this week, the U.S. networking equipment maker announced a multiyear China investment initiative

  Clean technology has become the third-largest destination for venture capital in China, with $420 million invested in 2006

  Taiwanese rival Acer got Packard Bell, but Lenovo is surging ahead in Europe and other markets, leading to a quarterly earnings gain of 178%

  Largely unknown Taiwan contract manufacturers are trying to reposition themselves as consumer brands

  J.T. Wang talks about the Taiwanese company's rationale for buying also-ran American PC maker Gateway as well European company Packard Bell

  The iPod, iPhone, and especially the Mac fueled a record-breaking quarter. And Apple expects to beat the consensus again next quarter

  As the tech industry girds for third-quarter earnings, analysts are turning their attention to next year. Many don't like what they see

  Now, News Corp.'s social network will be part of a growing alliance that's widely seen as an attempt to one-up Facebook

  For now, the gPhone isn't in the picture, but a successful search engine partnership could lead to discussions down the road

  Big Internet companies have been snapping up ad networks to boost ad revenue. Now Specific Media plans to join the M&A frenzy

  In this podcast, CEO Thomas Harpointner of AIS Media offers criteria to determine whether online strategies and advertising will work for your company

  The No. 1 search engine is banding together with other sites and software developers to build its own social networking ecosystem