AP - Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising revenues by more than $1 billion between 2000 and 2002. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 00:35:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Bill O'Reilly, who hosts a show on
U.S. news channel Fox News, is mounting an "extraordinary
televised assault" on Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of
General Electric, the Washington Post reported on its Web site
on Monday. -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 00:42:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - LAS VEGAS (AP) Kenny Chesney may not have wanted online voters to decide one of country music's top awards, but he still asked his fans to click for him.
AP - Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories while reigniting privacy concerns.
AFP - Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.
AFP - Vintners in California's renowned Napa Valley on Monday launched an Internet tribute to pioneering US wine-maker Robert Mondavi, who died three days earlier in his home in the region.
PC World - An online retailer in the U.K. is taking preorders for a motherboard equipped with the upcoming Diamondville version of... -- read full article
Tue, 20 May 2008 06:20:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo
Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web
pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Monday.
Reuters - Napster Inc., the digital music
service, on Tuesday opened the world's biggest MP3 download
store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to
Apple Inc's iTunes store.
NewsFactor - On May 15, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. While many people may pretend online to be someone they're not, this particular incident apparently had deadly consequences. -- read full article
Sun, 18 May 2008 16:28:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - An explosion in Internet usage in the Middle East by "ordinary" people will show the world that the region is just like anywhere else, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Sunday.
AP - The Internet is routinely used when making buying decisions, but its influence is small compared with offline channels such as friends and sales personnel, a new study finds. -- read full article
Sun, 18 May 2008 20:00:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - Microsoft said Sunday it was considering some kind of new deal with Yahoo that would not involve a new takeover bid, two weeks after withdrawing its offer to acquire the struggling Internet pioneer.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven't escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo.