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The money-management world is buzzing about Silver Lake Partners, the technology-oriented buyout fund being assembled by Roger B. McNamee and three investment pals. Now comes word that another luminary of...

Cisco Systems Inc. has officially unveiled plans for a $1 billion facility in Coyote Valley that would accommodate 20,000 workers, or more than double the networking company's global workforce. The...

An Internet messaging service that has quietly amassed 28 million members is attempting to fashion itself into a next-generation Web force, competing with heavyweights such as Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos...

Miko Matsumura's faith in the virtues of the Java programming language is so unshakable that his Sun Microsystems Inc. business card described him as a "Java evangelist." For three years,...

You know a company is clicking on all cylinders when it can afford to joke about its own deficiencies. Consider the self-deprecating tone at Intel Corp., the world's leading maker...

Microsoft Corp.'s on-line magazine Slate is abandoning its effort to charge for most of its stories. It's another illustration of how the Internet has turned even unique editorial content into...

Too many high-tech products seem more interested in extending your payments than your capabilities. Wireless phones, pagers, Internet providers--they all want monthly fees and many ding you for extra air-time...

Considering how forgiving investors are these days as long as an "e-venture" shows hypergrowth, it's too bad the Internal Revenue Service isn't a high-tech start-up. Taxpayers filed nearly 19 million...

It was only a matter of time before Silicon Valley's Company No. 1, Hewlett-Packard Co., discovered that it too is an Internet company. Tired of being viewed--cor-rectly--as a relatively slow-moving,...

A trickle of "dot.com" spin-off deals have appeared on the market in recent weeks. Expect many, many more. The technique is just one of the devices opportunistic companies will use...