Steven Schwankert

Yahoo Inc. will reorganize into three new units, as part of a shake-up that will see Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig leave the company, Yahoo said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. will introduce a new system for fighting software piracy with its upcoming Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server operating systems, the company said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) obtained the telephone records of nine reporters as part of its internal probe of information leaks, the company confirmed. "HP is dismayed that the phone records of journalists were accessed without their knowledge, and we are fully cooperating with the attorney general's investigation," said company spokesman Ryan Donovan.

AT&T Inc. confirmed that its online store had been hacked and the credit card information and personal data of up to 19,000 customers possibly compromised.

The contract manufacturer of the iPod music player has filed lawsuits against two Chinese journalists who wrote articles about working conditions at factories where iPods are made.

Cisco Systems Inc. will acquire on-demand video software company Arroyo Video Systems Inc. for US$92 million, Cisco said. Arroyo will give Cisco a greater range of offerings for video-on-demand, which allows users of traditional cable television and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) to purchase and watch content such as music videos, television shows, and feature films, at the place and time of their choosing.

Tao Sixuan sighed when asked about hiring people for her start-up, Beijing Rose Technology Ltd. "It took a lot longer than I expected, to say the least," she said, recounting difficulties finding staff to perform basic tasks such as Web design with hosting and back-end support.

After regularly topping Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people for several years, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates joins Karl Marx and Nikita Khruschev on a list of non-Chinese making the greatest impact on China, published by a state-run newspaper's Web site.