At first, it sounded like another in a long line of credit card breaches: Up to 4.2 million account numbers were stolen by thieves who cracked computers at Hannaford Bros. Co., an Eastern supermarket chain.But the specifics of the crime,

Electronic-commerce giant eBay epitomizes the buying spree reshaping the tech landscape, and its mixed record on mergers presents a case study in what would-be acquirers should and shouldn't do to ensure a takeover succeeds.Like many companies in techdom, eBay has

Oracle told investors that net income reached $1.3 billion in the company's third quarter -- a 30 percent rise from a year earlier. Moreover, revenue at the business software maker grew 21 percent to $5.3 billion.Software license updates and product-support

When Google paid $1.76 billion for YouTube in October 2006, industry observers all had one question: How would Google extract value out of the world's biggest user-built video site? The answer, of course, was advertising. Wednesday, YouTube announced a key

Argentinian hacker Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered two critical flaws in Apple's Safari 3.1 browser for Windows, according to security firm Secunia.First, Yacubian says, an error when downloading a .zip file with an overly long filename can be exploited

When you're reading an article online, do you ever wish you could quickly reach out to someone at the company you're reading about? BusinessWeek.com is betting that you do, whether it's because you're looking for a new business partner or

New data confirming slowing growth in Google Inc.'s paid clicks renewed debate Thursday on Wall Street over whether the Internet search company's revenue can quickly adjust to changes it made in how it generates clicks.Citing data that comScore Inc. released

First he hacked Apple's iPhone. Now he's hacked Apple's MacBook Air. But some analysts are warning not to be quick to judge security based on Charlie Miller's work.Miller, a researcher at Independent Security Evaluators, won $10,000 and a laptop Thursday