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Apple Inc is in early talks to acquire digital music service Lala, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Apple Inc is in early talks to acquire digital music service Lala, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Oracle Corp denied a newspaper report that Chief Executive Larry Ellison is backing down in a dispute with the European Union over the terms of the software company's $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Canada's Absolute Software Corp said it acquired LANrev security software product suite from Germany's Pole Position Software GmbH for about $14.6 million in cash and stock, to strengthen its position in the asset management and data protection markets.

Yahoo announced Wednesday a partnership with Facebook that will enable the two sites to share certain parts of their streams. Yahoo email account users will be able to check Facebook status from their inboxes. The service will also be available across other Yahoo properties, including News, Answers, and Sports, thanks to Facebook Connect.

Google is attempting to improve relations with media giants with its First Click Free policy that allows publishers to build pay walls around their online content. The search giant will also allow publishers to decide whether they want their sites to show up in Google News, Google Web search, both, or neither.

Electronic Arts Inc sees a future where its online and mobile games are as critical as Madden NFL and other console games as the company focuses on building core franchises and winnows its number of titles, said Chief Executive John Riccitiello.

Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg sent an open letter to the sites 350 million users about the modifications that have been made to the privacy policies of the world's most popular social networking website.

Yahoo Inc will let users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world's No. 1 Internet social network.

China's leading Internet firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment aims to buy more digital entertainment platforms and game content developers to diversify its revenue stream.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it could find no evidence that recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some have dubbed the black screen of death.

Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had found no evidence that its recent security updates were causing problems with its new Windows 7 operating system, which some users said left them with a black screen of death.

Microsoft users claimed on Tuesday that they have been left with a black screen of death after running a Microsoft security update on their computers, according to reports. Microsoft has not yet released an official statement as to the cause of the Black Screen of Death, which results in a totally black screen, only saying it is investigating the issue.

Canadian advertising agency Cossette Inc said on Monday it has accepted a sweetened bid from U.S. private equity group Mill Road Capital and it continues to recommend that its shareholders reject an unsolicited takeover proposal from Cosmos Capital.

The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source with direct knowledge of Nokia's product roadmap told Reuters.

A second of Sony Ericsson's new smartphones, key to its strategy for returning to profit next year, has been hit by software problems in Britain ahead of a critical sales period.

U.S. software company Oracle will present to European Union regulators on Dec. 10 its case for buying computer maker Sun Microsystems, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company.

Global mobile data traffic continued to surge in October, growing at the fastest pace in seven months, Internet browser company Opera Software said on Wednesday.

Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said on Tuesday.

Apple iTunes on Tuesday began featuring downloads of live concerts by about 20 artists who are promoted by Live Nation.