Technology

A new service, on TrueCredit.com, aims to help tilt the balance in favor of borrowers.

True invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators don’t always realize it.

Eric Idle, of Monty Python, is using the ultimate shock treatment by taking the troupe to the Internet.

To help sift through all the choices, companies including VideoSurf and Digitalsmiths have developed search tools.

To make the most of a bleak holiday season, Best Buy is stressing big promotions and novel customer service.

With vast resources from stolen credit card and other financial information, cyberattackers are handily winning a technology arms race.

Why can't TVs get Internet content? Blame years of tortuous negotiations between TV makers and the cable industry over issues like the channel guide.

A new domain name, .tel, becomes available Wednesday, and it could become a phone book for the Internet.

Ev Williams, chief executive of Twitter, explains why he rejected a buyout offer from Facebook and discusses the future of the microblogging service.

Students who wrote a program to help Amazon shoppers download pirated copies of music and movies say their tool was a parody and an intellectual experiment.

The Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester is set to unveil its latest addition, which besides teaching media literacy to schoolchildren will also be going into prisons and homeless shelters.

Viacom said it would cut nearly 7 percent of its work force, or 850 workers, while NBC Universal said it was laying off 500 employees.

The financier now owns about 5.4 percent of the Internet search company, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.

Microsoft named Qi Lu, a former Yahoo executive, to run its struggling Internet unit on Thursday.

Federal authorities accused William Del Biaggio III of defrauding investors and using the money to buy his $25 million stake in the Nashville Predators hockey team.

At an Austin energy conference, venture capitalists were decidedly somber about the prospects of start-up companies in the tough economic climate.

The former governor will write a biweekly column for the online magazine Slate about financial matters.

The chip maker warned that fourth-quarter revenue would be much weaker than expected because of sluggish demand.

The chip maker warned its fourth-quarter revenue will drop due to weaker-than-expected demand in the consumer market.

The company cited streamlining and a changing business mix for laying off about 4 percent of its work force.

A recount in Minnesota’s too-close-to-call Senate race is a waste of time — the margin is so small, we will never know the real winner.

The faltering economy could mean renewed interest in coupons as shoppers refocus on the cost of the products they buy — that is, if they do actually buy anything these days.

Strong Web sales over the holiday weekend are unlikely to bail out the retail industry, which is contending with a recession and a sharp decline in consumers’ wealth.

Rogers Communication must deal with its founder’s death, while Bell Canada faces a failed buyout.