TechWeb - InformationWeek - A ruling earlier this month threatens to block the $52 billion takeover of BCE by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and a group of U.S. buyout firms. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 21:23:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Customers lured into no-interest or no-payment financing were denied and offered high-interest loans that often exceeded 20% instead. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 22:38:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
InfoWorld - Google is announcing pricing for its App Engine service for Web application hosting Wednesday, maintaining a free tier, then charging for storage of more than 500MB of data. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Facebook's decision to open its platform comes less than two weeks after the social network began denying Google's Friend Connect. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 23:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc said on
Tuesday that Google App Engine would offer additional computing
resources for developers this year and announced pricing for
the service.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Reports suggest the EU will forbid the chipmaker from subsidizing retailers' advertising costs, to the extent that it demanded exclusivity in stores in return. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 23:45:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple is not the first to consider this technique for using solar power; Motorola describes a similar approach in a 2001 patent. -- read full article
Wed, 28 May 2008 00:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Europe's Internet security agency, ENISA, wants new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and... -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 13:00:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Yahoo Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of defendants it alleges tricked consumers into thinking they won a lottery or prize offered by the Internet company. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 14:01:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Borders Group Inc. is returning to online retailing after seven years paired with Amazon.com, but analysts say it will be a challenge for the nation's second-largest bookseller to compete with established Web retailers.
AP - Japanese youngsters are getting so addicted to Internet-linking cell phones that the government is starting a program warning parents and schools to limit their use among children. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 15:55:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Verizon Communications Inc is offering
a broadband video subscription service from Starz Entertainment
to expand its video offering on the Internet, the companies
said on Tuesday.
