Reuters - CNET Networks Inc shareholder Jana
Partners LLC on Thursday said it dropped its effort to win
control of CNET's board in light of CBS Corp's plan to buy the
Internet media company. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:29:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Nine purported "mastered, finished"
tracks from Guns N' Roses' 14-years-in-the-making album
"Chinese Democracy" have been leaked online by the Web site
Antiquiet.com, prompting a quick cease-and-desist from the
band's handlers and the removal of the links.
Reuters - The top Republican on the U.S. House
of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has sent a
letter to Yahoo's chief executive expressing concern about the
effect of Yahoo's deal with Google on Internet users' privacy
and advertising rates.
Reuters - EBay Inc buyers and sellers using
its PayPal online payments service will be protected from fraud
for the full value of auction purchases, expanding a more
limited program, eBay said on Thursday.
AFP - US military authorities are unable to find hundreds of nuclear missile components, The Financial Times reported in its online edition Thursday, but the Pentagon shrugged it off as simple record-keeping woes.
AFP - A media rights watchdog on Thursday urged Vietnamese authorities to free a blogger arrested before the Olympic torch relay who the group said was being targetted for his political views.
AP - EBay Inc. hopes to attract more online traders by expanding the protections available to people who use its PayPal payment service for transactions on eBay's Internet marketplaces. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:19:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Senior Facebook Inc executive
Matt Cohler, one of the online social network's first
employees, will join Benchmark Capital this fall as a general
partner, the venture capital firm said on Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:28:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - The former Tennessee home of Johnny Cash's parents is on sale for $1.4 million — and that includes a gold record from "The Man in Black." -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:33:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - However, a lack of enterprise support won't stop employees from downloading and using the browser on their own, with or without the backing of IT. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:20:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The WiMax Forum projects that the number of certified products will grow from 10 today, to 100 by the end of the year, and more than 1,000 by 2011. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The computer maker says it will charge $20 to $50 to customers to participate in Microsoft's Vista-to-XP downgrade licensing program. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:46:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - The husband-and-wife team behind Yahoo Inc.'s popular photo-sharing service Flickr have resigned, following two top executives that have departed since the Internet pioneer rejected a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:54:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - The New York Post can finally drop its
Carl Icahn blog-watch timer. The long-delayed Icahn Report blog
is going live on Thursday, the financier and corporate agitator
said on Wednesday.
