CHICAGO The battle of phone directories escalated today as Yellow Book changed its name to Yellowbook and broke an integrated campaign with the tagline: "Say Yellow to the future."

Generating business-to-business leads and business-to-consumer contacts for clients is the mission of Purple Trout of Fort Thomas, a firmled by founder Steve Phillips.

The bug enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but

Austin Ventures, the VC and private equity firm, has launched its eighth mini-rollup fund in the last five years, and this is an intriguing one: it is putting $50 million into a vehicle led by former CEO of Razorfish, Jeff Dachis, to build an Austin-based

The proliferation of new applications and the realization that they make cellphones more popular has convinced carriers that they need to give consumers more freedom.