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Google delivers ad-supported video clips via AdSense
Web publishers that participate in Google's AdSense ad distribution network will now be able to make money by offering ad-supported video clips from Google's YouTube video sharing site.

Microsoft buys Jellyfish.com comparative shopping site
Microsoft has bought comparative shopping Web site Jellyfish.com, which gives its customers a cut of advertising revenue from retailers, offering a rebate on purchases made through the site.
October 2, 5:04 a.m. PDT

eBay's San Dimas desktop app enters public beta tests
eBay will significantly widen the beta test for San Dimas, its PC application designed to let buyers interact both offline and online with the company's marketplace.
October 1, 8:41 a.m. PDT

Google buys Zingku mobile social networking service
Google has acquired a mobile social networking startup called Zingku, the search company's latest move to provide more services through mobile phones.
September 28, 5:32 a.m. PDT

Verizon reverses decision to block text messages
Verizon Wireless has reversed a decision to block text messages on its network from abortion rights group Naral Pro-Choice America after an outcry from net neutrality advocates and others.
September 27, 9:05 a.m. PDT

'Fraudster' posts confidential eBay member data on forum
Someone used an eBay discussion forum on Tuesday to post confidential information about eBay users along with what may be their credit card numbers.
September 25, 3:16 p.m. PDT

Amazon launches music download service
Amazon.com has launched a public beta trial of its much-anticipated music download service.
September 25, 8:12 a.m. PDT

Online auction for first A380 tickets nears end
An online auction of tickets for the first commercial A380 flight is nearing an end, with one bidder spending S$153,000 (US$101,514) for a first-class seat on the Singapore Airlines flight.
September 21, 4:29 a.m. PDT

Google tests interactive Gadget ads service
Google is testing a new advertising format that it hopes will make people spend more time looking at ads online, and even embed them in their own Web sites.
September 19, 4:05 a.m. PDT

New York Times to stop charging for online content
Two years after The New York Times started charging for access to some content on its Web site, the Gray Lady is changing tack and will make the content available for free.
September 18, 5:14 a.m. PDT

MTV, RealNetworks said to merge digital music stores
MTV Networks and RealNetworks will merge their online digital music stores in the latest attempt to reduce Apple's hold on the music download market, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning.
August 21, 6:23 a.m. PDT

Google offers refunds for irked video customers
Google has apologized for the way it shut down its video sales and rental service last week, leaving people unable to play videos they had paid for, and said it will refund their credit cards and allow them to watch their films for another six months.
August 21, 5:19 a.m. PDT

Singapore Air sets date for online auction of A380 tickets
Singapore Airlines' online auction of tickets for the first commercial A380 flight will start on Aug. 27, the company announced Thursday.
August 17, 6:23 a.m. PDT

Prosecutors to appeal Allofmp3.com acquittal
Russian prosecutors and a recording industry trade group will appeal the acquittal of a senior manager affiliated with Allofmp3.com, the Web site accused of brazenly selling pirated music without paying royalties.
August 17, 6:03 a.m. PDT

VMware IPO price set at $29 per share
VMware Inc. set the price for its Tuesday initial public offering at US$29 per share, the top end of the range of starting prices that the software virtualization company had forecast.
August 13, 7:46 p.m. PDT

Accenture Web Evaluator assesses consumer Web site brands
A new Web site assessment service launched by Accenture could help businesses get more bang out of the bucks they invest in their consumer sites.
July 31, 6:44 a.m. PDT

U.S. man faces online porn charges
A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has charged a California man with operating an Internet-based obscenity distribution business and other offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
July 25, 8:28 a.m. PDT

Chinese sport fans embrace e-commerce for 2008 Olympics
Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
July 16, 5:20 a.m. PDT

Microsoft to study Japan's digital lifestyle
Microsoft's Japan unit plans to study more closely the use of digital technology in the lives of average Japanese to gain insight that it might use overseas, the head of its Japanese unit said Monday.
July 9, 5:33 a.m. PDT

eBay launches Kijiji classifieds in U.S.
EBay launched its Kijiji International classified advertising site in the U.S. Friday.
July 5, 5:43 a.m. PDT

eBay attempts to welcome back store owners
After making a series of decisions that frustrated some merchants, eBay is wooing store owners.
June 15, 12:47 p.m. PDT

eBay mission: Court developers to bring in buyers
eBay is on a drive to put its brand everywhere people experience the Internet, and it wants outside Web developers to help get it there.
June 13, 9:15 a.m. PDT

Mozilla releases eBay add-on for Firefox
Mozilla is asking users to test a new add-on for the Firefox browser that lets users monitor their deals on eBay's auction site in real time.
May 3, 5:42 a.m. PDT

Red Hat founder's Lulu promotes self-publishing
In 1994, Bob Young founded Red Hat, the popular Linux distribution vendor, in his wife's sewing closet. Now, the entrepreneur is giving others a chance to create a successful business in the same do-it-yourself way -- by self-publishing their creative projects through his new venture, Lulu Inc.
April 17, 3:51 p.m. PDT

Yahoo, PayPal partner for e-transactions
Yahoo and eBay's PayPal have teamed up to attach a special icon to online merchants that advertise with Yahoo and offer PayPal's Express Checkout transaction processing.
April 17, 3:36 p.m. PDT

Tech 101 for startups
“It’s not the old guard in manufacturing anymore. Now there is a new guard” that understands technology and can digest the information and knowledge that advanced business applications offer to young, growing companies.
March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST

Free software is nothing to fear
Nat Torkington stirred up some controversy when he asked, "Is 'Open Source' Now Completely Meaningless?" He has a good point, however. With so many companies claiming to be "open source" -- despite seemingly disparate business models and licensing schemes -- it's getting hard to tell what is legitimate open source and what isn't. The mere fact that so many voices have begun to weigh in on the issue is proof of how murky these waters have become.
March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

Nokia venture pushes phone payments
Nokia, one of the first handset makers outside Japan to turn a phone into a wallet, now wants to sell services that will make these kinds of devices useful.
March 1, 7:01 a.m. PST

Dell seeks a clue, will LG sue?
Apparently Dell is too big for even Michael D. to run by himself. So the company has created the Digg-like Dell Idea Storm, where would-be CEOs can offer their 2 cents on how to run the show. At press time, more than 800 ideas had been submitted, with the most popular being: 1) preload less crapware, 2) offer more open source software, and 3) no more support calls with “Billie Jo from Bangalore,” please. The worst suggestion? Having Michael Dell deliver his PCs in person, kind of like a Domino’s pizza. And if the PC crashes or blows up within the first 30 minutes, it’s free.
February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST

NetSuite ramps up e-commerce capabilities
NetSuite, a provider of hosted applications for midsize businesses, will announce Thursday that it has beefed up the electronic commerce capabilities of its software suite and has teamed up with online auction giant eBay Inc. in order to attract larger electronic retail (e-tail) customers.
February 15, 4:51 a.m. PST

Tivo, Amazon unveil download deal
Owners of Tivo's popular digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced Wednesday.
February 7, 6:12 a.m. PST

Gemalto sees online safety in USB smart card
At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco smart card vendor Gemalto will introduce new technology designed to give online shoppers an easy way to log on to their accounts using a smart card device that plugs into any PC.
January 31, 4:51 a.m. PST

Foundation proves Linux is big business
What do you get if you cross an open source development consortium with an organization that promotes free standards? Answer: You get a Linux advocacy group. Or so it seems.
January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST

FTC halts deceptive 'free software' offer
A U.S. judge has temporarily halted the marketing practices of a Web-based retailer that advertised to send customers free software, then charged them if they did not return some of it.
January 26, 8:23 a.m. PST

Intel to invest in ClickandBuy
Intel Capital invested an undisclosed amount in Firstgate Holding, owner of hosted online payment system provider ClickandBuy.
January 18, 4:40 a.m. PST

Even in IT, sex sells
Attention all IT marketers: There’s no limit to how sexy you can make technology sound, if you put some creativity into it.
January 18, 3:00 a.m. PST

Digital music sales double in 2006
Digital music sales doubled in 2006 thanks to better distribution, but the rise hasn't made up for the decline in CD sales, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said on Wednesday.
January 17, 6:42 a.m. PST

Vendors court the retail industry at New York show
Microsoft and IBM were among the vendors pitching new software for the retail industry at the start of its biggest annual conference in New York on Monday.
January 16, 7:11 a.m. PST

U.S. trails in technology exports to China
China purchased a record amount of technology in 2006, with Europe accounting for almost 40 percent of total imports, China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
January 12, 4:11 a.m. PST

All aboard: Galloping to CES
As you contemplate all the hot product announcements that came out of CES last week, consider this: In 1855, just more than 150 years ago, nobody had any devices whatsoever.
January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST

In Brief: EBay buys ticket site StubHub
EBay announced Thursday it will acquire ticket selling site StubHub for about $310 million in cash. The auction giant said the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of this year.
January 11, 4:58 a.m. PST

FTC goes after payments processor
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked a court to order a payment processor working with a Web-based business to repay consumers after the two allegedly debited nearly $2.4 million from bank accounts without permission.
January 9, 8:13 a.m. PST

Online spending tops $100 billion
Driven by a strong rise in holiday spending, U.S. retail Web sites collected $102.1 billion in 2006, marking a 24 percent increase over last year, according to a report released Thursday.
January 4, 8:14 a.m. PST

CIOs should resolve to change
Well, we’re one week into 2007, which means it’s time to revisit those New Year’s resolutions from 2006 and delete them (or pretend they never existed). Or we could drag them forward into 2007, as part of our ongoing guilt list with no specific deadline.
January 3, 3:00 a.m. PST

Gadget envy? Just give in
Sometimes, around this time of year, it’s good to set practicalities aside and remind yourself how fun technology can be. That’s why we got into IT to begin with, right? Not because of budgets, audits, and Gantt charts.
December 29, 3:00 a.m. PST

Worldbeat: Bo knew Chinese auctions; eBay didn't
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December 21, 5:16 a.m. PST

Foreign Internet firms struggle in China
For the second time in two years, a major U.S. Internet company has chosen to offer its subsidiary to a local company, after failing to be competitive and attain profitability in China
December 20, 10:20 a.m. PST

Update: eBay to replace Chinese auction site
EBay Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it will replace its China auction site with a new joint-venture site run by partner Tom Online Inc. in 2007.
December 20, 7:03 a.m. PST

Reports: eBay to close China site
EBay will close its China site and begin a relationship with Tom Online to create a replacement, news reports indicated Tuesday.
December 19, 5:24 a.m. PST

Amazon says IBM WebSphere infringes patents
In a strongly worded rebuttal, Amazon.com on Thursday countersued IBM. The companies have charged each other with patent infringement.
December 15, 7:08 a.m. PST

Payback time for Novell
SCO group is going down. Microsoft, Sun, and the greedy investors that abetted SCO in its campaign to loot Unix and Linux vendors and their customers have abandoned ship. Microsoft’s public endorsement of SCO’s legal action against, effectively, Microsoft’s enterprise competitors and their customers, gave SCO the leverage to mug said vendors’ customers for license fees when vendors refused to drop their wallets in court. Sun and Microsoft animated SCO as the prototypical litigious IP boogeyman in order to terrorize competitors’ customers into switching to Windows or Solaris to avoid being hauled to court. That’s how I laid it out in 2003, and I stand by it now.
December 13, 3:00 a.m. PST

EBay Express disappoints merchants
Merchants complain that eBay Express doesn't attract sufficient shoppers and generates an inconsequential volume of sales, although eBay Inc. says it is satisfied and remains committed to the site.
December 12, 1:44 p.m. PST

Good ideas take time
Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea.
December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST

Alibaba, China Post join forces for online shopping
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com has signed a deal with China Post, the country's postal service, intended to smooth the online shopping experience for Chinese consumers, the company said Wednesday.
November 22, 6:52 a.m. PST

2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Sports
Arizona Cardinals www.azcardinals.com Fully Integrated IP Voice-Data-Video Network Project Lead: Mark Feller, Technical Director Project Description: Implemented one of the biggest, successful plays in NFL history this year. Through a combination of teamwork, timing, and bold strategy, Technology Director Mark Feller helped facilitate one of the most highly sophisticated converged IP networks anywhere by teaming up with Insight, an IT solutions provider, and Cisco Systems. Nearly 800 Cisco IP Phones running Cisco’s call management and contact center software do the heavy lifting required for enterprise-class call routing, voice mail, and other office phone functions. What’s more, the network hosts the organization’s digital video system designed to serve several purposes.
November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST

2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Transportation
BNSF Railway Co. www.bnsf.com Data Consolidation and Business Forecasting Project Lead: Charla Moore, Manager Business Intelligence Project Description: Following a merger, BNSF implemented the OnTrack forecasting and budgeting project to build a multiplatform tool custom-designed for use with BNSF's Teradata enterprise data warehouse. OnTrack uses multiple technologies, including Teradata, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Master Data Management, IBM DB2 Alphablox, and Java. OnTrack replaced departmental data silos with a single, integrated and automated platform for all BNSF forecast and plan data.
November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST

2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Retail
BoekhandelsGroep Nederland (BGN) www.bgn.nl Item Level RFID Retail System Project Lead: Jan Vink, CIO Project Description: When BGN opened its new Selexyz bookstore on April 25, it dubbed it a "smart store," as it was the first in the chain to implement item-level RFID tagging. BGN used the following solutions: Progress Apama Event Stream Processing, which tracks each book from the warehouse, reconciles the shipping notice with the books received, and locates each book in the store. Customers can use Progress Easy Ask, a natural-language search engine available at the store's kiosks, to look up books. BGN used OpenEdge as the development platform for the Selexyz Atlas project, and it manages front- and back-office applications. The store's inventory is automatically updated, special orders are sent to a special location for pickup, and any discrepancies are flagged. An e-mail or SMS is automatically sent notifying customers the order has arrived.
November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST

Redefining innovation
Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub.
October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST

Web site offers to fix elections -- for a price
"Winning is everything."
October 26, 1:34 p.m. PDT

Scottish school is first to use palm-vein biometrics
A Scottish school has turned to biometrics as part of a nationwide push to encourage children to eat healthier meals.
October 26, 7:18 a.m. PDT

EBay joint venture gains on Yahoo
A new eBay auction joint venture in Taiwan is gaining on market leader Yahoo Taiwan by offering no fee trading, but the company faces a long fight to topple the island's largest Web auction site.
October 20, 5:55 a.m. PDT

Yahoo to simplify e-biz for small companies
Yahoo will revamp its e-commerce hosting platform to make it easier for small businesses to open and manage online stores.
October 16, 4:19 a.m. PDT

20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry
Pity the poor, ambitious IT professional. With technology more important to the bottom line than ever, you’d think there’d be career opportunities up the wazoo. But the suits don’t really understand what you do for a living. And they hold the keys to the executive washroom. So, while you’re down in the server closet saving the company’s bacon on a daily basis, these guys are upstairs in the corner offices with the nice view.
October 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Best Buy launches iTunes competitor
Best Buy, in cooperation with SanDisk and RealNetworks, is the latest company to join the growing list of competitors to Apple Computer's iTunes music service.
October 5, 12:00 p.m. PDT

PayPal pays $5.2 million to settle lawsuits
EBay's PayPal payment division will pay $3.5 million to consumers and $1.7 million to 28 states in settlements for two different actions regarding its notification of users regarding their rights, the company said Thursday.
September 29, 4:58 a.m. PDT

Committed to China? Prove it
"I have sent my wife across there because she understands the language," The Financial Times reported News Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch saying. "There" is China, and he sent Wendi Deng "across" to try to avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared other Western Internet ventures, including News Corp.'s.
September 28, 7:29 a.m. PDT

Bezos gives a look at 'hidden Amazon'
Best known as an online retailer, Amazon.com has been gradually building up the number of Web services it offers to developers, with the ultimate aim of turning that operation into a profitable business.
September 27, 9:20 a.m. PDT

Aviva to cut 4,000 jobs, move 1,500 to India
British insurance company Aviva plans to reduce its U.K. staff by 4,000 by 2008, and move 1,500 IT and BPO (business process outsourcing) jobs to India in a bid to save £250 million ($468.6 million) annually.
September 14, 9:29 a.m. PDT

Paying good money for bad software
When I went to work for a company I’ll call “Heart of Glass,” a firm that imports and sells high-end glassware, I was initially hired as a programmer. At the time, HoG had only one warehouse and five retail stores, but we worked hard and the company grew.
September 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Alibaba ready to ride Internet's 'third wave'
One of Jack Ma's companies has 27 million registered users, but the Alibaba.com chief executive officer can only think of the people not using his site.
September 11, 6:41 a.m. PDT

Amazon opens video download store
Amazon.com unveiled the Unbox Video Store on Thursday, a direct rival to Apple's iTunes 24-7 video store, which allows U.S. users to buy or rent TV shows, movies and other video content from the Internet.
September 8, 4:28 a.m. PDT

EBay, PCHome launch new auction site in Taiwan
EBay Inc. and Taiwanese portal operator PCHome Online Inc. announced their new joint venture Web auction site on Wednesday, an effort aimed at competing with market leader Yahoo Taiwan Inc.
September 6, 1:43 a.m. PDT

Legal music downloads up in Japan
The number of legal album and song downloads in Japan continued to climb in the second quarter of this year but the rate of expansion has slowed dramatically from a year earlier, according to figures published on Tuesday.
August 21, 10:02 p.m. PDT

Google Checkout glitch disconcerts advertisers
Google this week temporarily attached Google Checkout icons to ads from companies that haven't signed up for the online transaction system, a glitch that caused some confusion among advertisers.
August 17, 9:18 a.m. PDT

EBay to test changes to search results pages
EBay plans to begin testing later this month a redesign of its search results pages that will contain more information for each listed item and will sport a new look and layout.
August 16, 9:11 a.m. PDT

EBay Taiwan vows no fees for 3 years
A new joint venture Web auction site between eBay and Taiwanese portal operator PCHome Online is nearly ready, and the companies aim to keep it fee free for the next three years to compete with market leader Yahoo Taiwan.
August 11, 5:49 a.m. PDT

Update: Google says click-fraud figures inflated
Google has published a report concluding that click-fraud incidence is lower than some auditing firms estimate.
August 8, 12:46 p.m. PDT

Yahoo backtracks on auction fees
Yahoo Taiwan has delayed a plan to start charging transaction fees on its auction site, a victory for users and auctioneers who had rallied against the move.
August 7, 5:42 a.m. PDT

Tech believers, meet evolution
“Macs suck,” my son informed me the other day. Since we use both PCs and Macs at home, and since we flit promiscuously from one platform to the other, I wondered where this belief came from.
August 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Gleaning truth from earnings reports
Once every three months, the business press goes into a tunnel and can write about only one thing: quarterly earnings reports. This big company earned so much per share, that company lowered its guidance for next year, and so on.
July 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Appian puts polish into BPM
I look at four key elements when gauging the potential ROI and success of a BPM package: adaptability to existing platforms and applications, process insight and activity monitoring, usability, and the strength of the rules engine. On all counts, Appian Enterprise 5.1 fills the bill with its full-featured, people-centric, process-management suite.
July 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT

E-payment market could become oligopoly
The ever-growing popularity of shopping on the Internet has created a budding market for online payment services, but one that will be dominated by a handful of key players, according to a report published Tuesday by the German subsidiary of the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton.
July 19, 7:49 a.m. PDT

Web site disasters made easy
In 1997, I was working in the IT department at a midsize consumer products company in the San Francisco Bay Area. My job was mainly to keep the network up; the company had no Web presence. But as our competitors ate more and more of our lunch, it gradually dawned on management that we ought to be selling online. So I built a LAMP (Linux, Apache, and Perl/Python/PHP) sales portal that handled online ordering and a corporate Web site. It generated revenue from the outset.
July 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT

China throws journalist in jail
Chinese authorities have jailed a journalist for two years for posting articles that were critical of Chinese society and called for democratic reforms on the Internet, a media watchdog group said Thursday.
July 14, 5:02 a.m. PDT

Lycos sells Wired News
Condé Nast Publications Inc. will reunite the print and online components of Wired magazine by purchasing Wired News from Lycos Inc. for US$25 million, Lycos said Tuesday.
July 11, 8:20 p.m. PDT

eBay bans Google Checkout
eBay Inc. customers won't be able to use the newly launched Google Checkout service to buy products, according to the auction Web site.
July 7, 6:01 a.m. PDT

Google: Checkout not a 'PayPal killer'
Google Checkout isn’t a PayPal killer, the executive who spearheaded the development of the service said on the day of its launch.
June 29, 9:34 a.m. PDT

Researcher details of Amazon.com, MSN holes
Frustrated with what he calls a lack of response from Microsoft and Amazon.com, a security researcher has gone public with details of flaws on the two companies' Web sites.
June 29, 5:23 a.m. PDT

Google debuts Checkout payments system
Ending more than a year of speculation and rumors, Google plans to release on Thursday its much-awaited online payments system, likely surprising many because its reach will extend farther than previously thought.
June 29, 4:59 a.m. PDT

The end of the era at Microsoft can't come fast enough
The press is abuzz with speculation about Bill Gates' "impending" departure from Microsoft, the company he founded. As InfoWorld Editor in Chief Steve Fox rightly points out, no other company could announce executive turnover in two years' time and have it called news. What lends gravitas to this nonevent, however, is an idea that's been growing within the industry and that's beginning to find its voice: It's time for change.
June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT

FedEx seeks innovation in IT overhaul
From the outside, FedEx Corp. looks like a simple shipping company, relying on its orange and purple-painted airplanes to deliver 6 million packages around the world every day.
June 14, 12:09 p.m. PDT

Commerce Server upgrade due in August
Microsoft released a near-final version of its software for building e-commerce sites and renamed the product Commerce Server 2007, from Commerce Server 2006, although it says it will still ship roughly on time in August.
May 22, 5:45 a.m. PDT

AOL buys video ad company Lightningcast
AOL LLC has snapped up a team to play in the fast-growing Internet video business, acquiring broadband advertising firm Lightningcast Inc., the Internet service provider and Web portal said Thursday.
May 18, 12:42 p.m. PDT

Startup aims to empower Chinese consumers
As Chinese consumers become more affluent, they also become more discerning and demanding than ever before. Two American entrepreneurs are looking to tap this trend with Web sites that give Chinese consumers independent product reviews and ratings.
May 16, 6:23 a.m. PDT

EU logjam delays update to e-commerce tax law
A logjam in the Brussels lawmaking machine has forced the European Commission to extend its existing rules governing value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce until the end of 2008, the Commission said Tuesday.
May 16, 5:44 a.m. PDT

Microsoft and MTV take on Apple iTunes
Microsoft on Wednesday will release a beta version of Windows Media Player 11, a more stylish version of its media software that mimics the sleekness of its main competitor, Apple Computer's iTunes.
May 16, 5:31 a.m. PDT

China's Taobao pitches for big business
Alibaba.com's Taobao auction site has ambitious plans to reshape the e-commerce landscape in China.
May 12, 5:02 a.m. PDT

Update: Microsoft settles antitrust suit in California
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday reached a tentative US$70 million deal to settle a California class-action antitrust lawsuit, according to a statement by the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the suit.
May 2, 4:45 p.m. PDT

Disparate groups join to form net neutrality coalition
A self-described coalition of "strange bedfellows," including groups representing gun owners, librarians, religious leaders and liberal activists, has joined to advocate for a U.S. law to bar broadband providers from blocking or slowing content and services provided by potential competitors.
April 24, 1:36 p.m. PDT

Online advertising undergoes 'tremendous' growth
Internet advertising in the U.S. grew 30 percent in 2005, although it still remains a small portion of overall ad spending, according to a study released Thursday.
April 20, 10:09 a.m. PDT


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