When Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was trying to buy Yahoo, he didn't want to appear disagreeable, let alone hostile.

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

Disney is hoping that after kids check out the new "Chronicles of Narnia" movie this weekend, they'll want to go online and chat about it using game characters dressed in fashions from the movie's dreamworld.

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

CBS will buy CNet Networks, one of the Internet's most-viewed family of tech-oriented sites, for $1.8 billion in cash, the two companies said yesterday, substantially expanding the online footprint of the Eye network and creating another May-December media marriage.

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

Dot-com highflier Charles E. Johnson Jr. was convicted yesterday of stock fraud and obstruction of justice after a federal court found that he misled investors by inflating revenue at his Las Vegas software firm.

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.5 billion contract to build the military's next generation of navigation satellites, crucial for the growing demand by the military, companies and consumers for technology that pinpoints and tracks location.

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions.

5/15/2008 7:00:00 PM

In his bid for Congress from Northern Virginia's 11th District, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly recently mailed a campaign flier demonstrating his opposition to U.S. involvement in Iraq. Among other things, the piece accuses the "Bush-Cheney Defense Department" of...

5/16/2008 5:00:00 AM

LOS ANGELES -- Securities regulators on Wednesday charged Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company's reported income, leading to what is believed to be the largest accounting restatement yet because of backdating stock options.

5/15/2008 4:17:53 AM

Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has amassed a significant stake in Yahoo, one of the world's largest Web companies, and is planning to nominate a dissident slate of directors to the company, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday evening.

5/15/2008 5:00:00 AM

Shares of Yahoo, the Internet company that rejected a $47.5 billion buyout offer from Microsoft, rose yesterday because of reports that billionaire investor Carl Icahn may seek control of its board.

5/14/2008 5:00:00 AM

To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month visit networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- Riding a hot streak that has doubled its stock price in the past three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp.

5/13/2008 11:37:41 PM

By the strictest definition, Windows XP has been dead since Jan. 30, 2007 -- the day its replacement, Windows Vista, arrived in stores and XP promptly vanished from most new computers.

5/15/2008 5:00:00 AM

Sprint Nextel yesterday reported first-quarter losses of 1.1 million subscribers and more than half a billion dollars.

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday tapped veteran Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes as chief executive of the world's largest charitable foundation.

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

It's your constant travel companion, a source of pain and pleasure. Here's how to make living with your portable computer easier on both of you.

5/13/2008 3:49:37 PM

A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops designed to withstand drought and other environmental stresses, part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global warming,...

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

XM Satellite Radio, the District pay-radio company planning to combine with smaller competitor Sirius Satellite Radio, reported a wider first-quarter loss yesterday as it increased spending to attract more subscribers.

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

There are different kinds of investors in the world. One kind is a long-term, patient type who runs mutual funds for the average Joe. A second is a risk arbitrageur -- known on Wall Street as an "arb" -- who speculates on pending deals. When a proposed takeover surfaces and the target's stock price...

5/13/2008 5:00:00 AM

Two consecutive chaotic and dangerous landings by Soyuz space capsules, including one with an American astronaut aboard, have NASA and space experts concerned about the spacecraft's reliability in ferrying astronauts to and from the international space station.

5/12/2008 5:00:00 AM

One of the first things that pops up if you check YouTube to find out about a public school in Western Maryland is a video that starts: FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY. ITS GREAT!!! An edgy new-wavy punkish Electric Six song cranks in, and the camera lurches as people down shots, chug beer and do keg ...

5/12/2008 5:00:00 AM

"I am suggesting that language evolved to allow us to gossip . . . to facilitate the bonding of social groups . . . it mainly achieves this aim by permitting the exchange of socially relevant information."

5/11/2008 5:00:00 AM

GURGAON, India -- When Aashish Sharma graduated from law school two years ago, his father had visions of seeing him argue in an Indian court and eventually become an honorable judge.

5/11/2008 5:00:00 AM