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The U.S. Department of Justice has hired a high-profile antitrust attorney to help it review, and possibly challenge, Yahoo's agreement to outsource part of its search advertising business to Google, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a reported plan to join forces with AOL, as a way to stave off the software giant's advances.

Google has started integrating its popular mapping service with its controversial books search engine, to let people plot on maps references to places they find in books.

Hackers have compromised databases belonging to LexisNexis and stolen information on at least 32,000 people, according to a statement Wednesday from LexisNexis' parent company, Reed Elsevier.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will lay off close to 11 percent of its workforce, as the company continues to be punished by a slowdown in technology spending, Sun said Thursday in its earnings report for its first fiscal quarter of 2003.

Sun Microsystems Inc. might lay off up to 8,000 people later this week after it reports earnings, analysts at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC reported.

Board members of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, an influential Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder, voted Friday to oppose the proposed merger between HP and Compaq Computer Corp., a move that could potentially sink the US$25 billion deal, according to some analysts.

IBM Corp. announced today it will begin shipping a new storage server that provides 2GB Fibre Channel connectivity, as well as enhanced network-attached storage and Internet protocol storage products aimed at the midrange market.

Sun Microsystems Inc. could lay off up to 15 percent of its workforce to help reduce costs and offset the slowdown in technology spending that has punished the company in recent quarters, an analyst wrote Thursday in a report.

IBM has announced it has qualified some of its linear-tape backup products, servers and software to run on the Linux operating system, a move analysts say will further bolster the open-source platform for enterprise-class environments.