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(AP) -- Google Inc. recently set aside $500 million to cover a possible settlement of a U.S. government investigation into the Internet search leader's distribution of online ads from illegal pharmacies, according to a report published Thursday. http://phys.org/news224490412.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 07:27:10 EST news224490412 Renren, China's most popular social network, filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday hoping to raise as much as $583 million. http://phys.org/news222149782.html Technology Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:16:33 EST news222149782 (AP) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering whether to ease rules on private companies that issue shares. http://phys.org/news221485562.html Technology Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:46:13 EST news221485562 US biotech group Cephalon has rejected a hostile, $5.7 billion acquisition bid from its Canadian rival Valeant, which counter-attacked by seeking to replace the firm's board of directors. http://phys.org/news221282026.html Technology Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:14:15 EST news221282026 Satyam Computer Services has agreed to pay $10 million to settle US charges that former top managers inflated the Indian company's revenue, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news221226766.html Technology Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:52:57 EST news221226766 (AP) -- Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini received a 2010 pay package worth $15.5 million, up 8 percent from 2009 as the chipmaker grew its profit and revenue thanks largely to a rebound in corporate demand. http://phys.org/news221160904.html Technology Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:35:22 EST news221160904 Online radio service Pandora has received a subpoena from a federal grand jury investigating whether popular smartphone applications share information about their users with advertisers and other third parties. http://phys.org/news221153743.html Technology Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:10:06 EST news221153743 (AP) -- Brian Roberts, the CEO of cable company Comcast Corp., received a compensation package valued at $31.1 million in 2010, up 14 percent from a year earlier as the company worked to complete a deal to become the majority owner of NBCUniversal. http://phys.org/news220896703.html Technology Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:12:06 EST news220896703 LinkedIn, the career-oriented social network, said Tuesday that it has hit 100 million members, more than half of whom live outside the United States. http://phys.org/news220022682.html Technology Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:50:04 EST news220022682 The world's biggest maker of data storage computers on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely used technology for preventing computer break-ins. http://phys.org/news219645358.html Technology Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:36:14 EST news219645358 A US financial regulator warned investors on Tuesday to be wary of con artists peddling non-existent shares in social media companies such as Facebook ahead of their going public. http://phys.org/news219430429.html Technology Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:54:31 EST news219430429 Google has awarded nearly $9 million in bonuses and another $50 million in equity to four top executives of the Internet giant, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. http://phys.org/news219123336.html Technology Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:35:45 EST news219123336 (AP) -- AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is making a $10 million bet that his turnaround strategy will pay off. He just invested that amount of money in 477,000 shares of the company's stock. http://phys.org/news216969020.html Technology Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:10:35 EST news216969020 The US computer-based investment branch of the French AXA group will pay $242 million in compensation and fines after hiding a program glitch that cost investors millions, the SEC said Thursday. http://phys.org/news215970700.html Technology Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:51:56 EST news215970700 (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking to investigate the circumstances of former CEO Mark Hurd's departure, including the large severance package he received. http://phys.org/news214754083.html Technology Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:10:03 EST news214754083 Citing "intense media attention," Goldman Sachs has decided to exclude US clients from the private offering of as much as $1.5 billion in shares of Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. http://phys.org/news214500459.html Technology Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:50:01 EST news214500459 In a controversial move deemed either shrewd or unfair -- depending on whom you ask -- investment firm Goldman Sachs recently invested $450 million in the high-profile, world-changer Facebook. The deal provides Facebook with the cash to make more Friends, while Goldman investors get the privilege of investing, without public disclosure, as much as $1.5 billion in a private company that's made investors' mouths water for years. http://phys.org/news214222832.html Technology Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:21:01 EST news214222832 (AP) -- With so many investors becoming fans of the company, Facebook will be legally required to begin sharing more information about its finances and strategy by April 2012, according to documents distributed to prospective shareholders. http://phys.org/news213598508.html Technology Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:55:19 EST news213598508 (AP) -- Alcatel-Lucent SA has agreed to pay more than $137 million to settle charges brought against it by the federal government. http://phys.org/news212764638.html Technology Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:18:12 EST news212764638 (AP) -- Mark Hurd is facing more fallout from his ouster five months ago as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's biggest personal computer and printer maker. http://phys.org/news212127088.html Technology Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:11:48 EST news212127088 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has sold 49.3 million shares in the company worth some 1.33 billion dollars, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). http://phys.org/news208333978.html Technology Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:00:01 EST news208333978 (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday approved Dell Inc.'s $100 million settlement with the government of civil fraud charges. http://phys.org/news206214788.html Technology Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:53:18 EST news206214788 (AP) -- Skype is replacing its CEO with a Cisco Systems executive, a change that may indicate the Internet calling service is closer to announcing specific plans for an initial public offering. http://phys.org/news205427380.html Technology Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:09:50 EST news205427380 India's fraud-hit software firm Satyam Computers said on Friday it plans to delist from the New York stock exchange as it may not be able to meet the US deadline to file restated financial accounts. http://phys.org/news204545006.html Technology Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:20:01 EST news204545006 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, investors have been wondering exactly what happened that Friday afternoon. As stock markets were trending down due to concern about the debt crisis in Greece, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suddenly plunged 600 points in about 5 minutes. Then 20 minutes later, the Dow recovered most of the loss, and finished the day down more than 200 points. http://phys.org/news204386211.html Physics Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:57:05 EST news204386211 (AP) -- U.S. investigators have widened their probe of alleged kickbacks paid to Russian authorities by employees of a Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary in Germany. http://phys.org/news203335077.html Technology Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:20:09 EST news203335077 A handful of traders who master stock markets using ultra-fast computers may soon face a clampdown by US watchdogs as they try to prevent freak electronic glitches. http://phys.org/news203272963.html Technology Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:00:01 EST news203272963 (AP) -- Oracle Corp. plans to pay newly appointed co-President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 annually and said the ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO is eligible for a target bonus of $5 million in the current fiscal year. http://phys.org/news203170313.html Technology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:30:05 EST news203170313 (AP) -- Dell Inc. is planning a second offer to try to keep data storage maker 3Par Inc. out of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s hands, according to a person familiar with the discussions. http://phys.org/news202020853.html Technology Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:54:31 EST news202020853 (AP) -- Computer maker Dell Inc. is paying $100 million to settle civil charges that it fraudulently used payments from Intel to pump up its profits to meet Wall Street targets over five years, the government announced Thursday. http://phys.org/news199077982.html Technology Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:28:53 EST news199077982