US retailers trim profit view
Major US retailers scaled back earnings expectations on Thursday as sales in December fell short of forecasts in a holiday season that showed the smallest gain in more than three decades.
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Fiat CEO says believes in only one plan for group
Fiat Chief Executive Alessandro Barberis said on Thursday he believed in a restructuring plan the troubled company worked out with its banks and sought to dampen speculation Fiat could spin off its ailing car unit..
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RealNetworks releases digital rights technology
RealNetworks will start licensing digital rights management, a copyright safeguard seen as crucial by Hollywood studios and record companies as they look to sell movies and songs online.
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Enron's Fastow to face new charges
Federal prosecutors pursuing former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow on Thursday said they would file a new indictment with more charges by next month..
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Homestore, AOL settle contract dispute
Online real estate company Homestore said on Thursday it had settled a contract dispute with America Online, the Internet division of AOL Time Warner, and had signed a new 18-month marketing pact.
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Samsung and DirecTV to offer TiVo unit
South Korean electronics maker Samsung and satellite television company DirecTV said on Thursday they will team up to offer a digital video recorder that will let users pause live television and amass a library of recorded shows.
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Sony sees path to digital future through TV
The path to the digital future goes through the living room television as broadband network connections transform that 75-year-old technology, Sony President Kunitake Ando said on Thursday as he showed off next-generation products such as paper-thin TV monitors and dancing robots.
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Personal strap-on aircraft for auction on eBay
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a strap-on flying machine. And it could be yours on eBay for $1 million with just one catch -- you have to agree not to use it.
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AOL Time Warner CFO contemplating cable IPO in Q2
A top AOL Time Warner executive told investors on Thursday the world's largest media company hoped to spin off its cable television operations during the second-quarter as part of its effort to begin paring down its weighty debt load.
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Watch industry facing Microsoft entry shock
Faced with the entry of a new deep-pocketed rival, watchmakers and companies that make a range of devices that Microsoft wants to wire with its own "smart" software see both an opportunity and a threat.
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