Motorola on Thursday posted third-quarter earnings above Wall Street estimates and forecast a profit for the fourth quarter, raising expectations the mobile handset maker had begun to turn its business around.

Europe is now the biggest market for outsourcing, while demand in the US has softened as a result of a shift in focus to smaller deals.

While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in and regulate.

AT&T Inc. hasn't decided whether it will bid for the highly-desirable 700MHz band because it doesn't know if it can build a profitable business given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July.

Former Google employees say that the company's founders are concerned about the prevention and extermination of evil.

HelioVolt, which specializes in copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells, has raised $24 million more, bringing the total injected into the company to over $100 million. The latest investors include Sequel Venture Partners, Noventi Ventures, and Passport Capital.

In the IT industry, Microsoft and its "ecosystem" of parters are big--on the order of 40 percent of the market. And if any policy makers around the world doubted its influence, it now has the data to prove it.

Nokia cut this week cut around 15 percent from the price of its 3G phone model E65, one of the top sales and profit generators for the world's largest mobile-phone maker, market data showed on Friday.

The European Union's data watchdog will take another few months to decide whether Google or other web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a participant in the watchdog's meeting said on Wednesday.

Move over Microsoft. Google is beefing up its outsourced e-mail offering aimed at corporations and universities, adding security features that large companies demand.

European and US antitrust regulators tried to calm a transatlantic storm on Thursday over a European Court ruling that Microsoft used monopoly power to muscle rivals, but did not back down over policy differences.