A private equity and pension fund consortium said it salvaged a record $52 billion deal for Bell Canada on Friday by postponing its closing date and canceling dividend payments.

The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Internet sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.

The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.

A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.

The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive.

Nvidia will take a charge against second-quarter earnings to cover the expected cost of repairing and replacing the products, which include graphics processing units and media and communications processors.

The Vodafone Group said it had agreed to acquire a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecom, the African country’s third-largest mobile phone operator, for $900 million.

The warning came as part of Apple’s transition from .Mac to the new MobileMe online service, which was announced at last month’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Those ads for the free digital TV signal converter box? Beware.

Thousands of Barack Obama’s backers are using the online organizing tools his campaign created to protest his recent support for expanding government surveillance powers.

Atul Malhotra joined Hewlett-Packard in May 2006. His employment ended four months later. In between he got himself into hot water with H.P., and, now, the federal government.

A slick 30-minute online video narrated by Bob Borchers offers a guided tour of the iPhone 3G coming July 11.

A forthcoming study from Carnegie Mellon shows that people are more inclined to divulge private information online in some contexts than others.

John Harrobin of Verizon Wireless sees music distribution via cellphone becoming more important as artists leave the big record labels.

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would buy Powerset Inc., an Internet search company, the latest in a string of acquisitions aimed at bolstering its position online.

Blockbuster said on Tuesday that it was withdrawing its proposal to acquire Circuit City Stores.

The European Commission said Nokia’s takeover of the U.S. digital mapmaker would be unlikely to shut off rivals’ access to digital maps.

Microsoft will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.

The E.P.A. expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more comprehensive system that measures actual workloads will take longer to develop.