| Fri, 09 May 2008 21:19:06 GMT
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Fri, 09 May 2008 20:56:50 GMT
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| Advocacy groups take aim at Google-Yahoo partnership
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Facebook to let users carry profile with them
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| AP - An online advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent.
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AP - The popular online social hangout Facebook says it's setting up a new system that will allow its 70 million users to take their personal profiles with them as they surf other Web sites.
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| Fri, 09 May 2008 20:37:53 GMT
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Fri, 09 May 2008 20:21:44 GMT
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| Congress Ponders Differing Net-Neutrality Bills
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McCain and blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote
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| NewsFactor - The Internet neutrality issue has once again taken center stage in Congress, where two bills are under scrutiny. During a hearing to discuss pending legislation, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet noted that commercial success for many Internet-based companies depends on an open Internet.
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Reuters - Did U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in
2000?
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| Fri, 09 May 2008 19:52:29 GMT
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Fri, 09 May 2008 16:49:23 GMT
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| Gates: Microsoft to go its own way
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Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes
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AP - Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.
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AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.
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| Fri, 09 May 2008 16:26:04 GMT
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Fri, 09 May 2008 16:11:16 GMT
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| MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites
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EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
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| NewsFactor - The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.
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AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.
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| Fri, 09 May 2008 15:51:58 GMT
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Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:23 GMT
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| Bloomingdale's to end By Mail catalog
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Fees for `.org' domain names to increase 10 pct
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| Reuters - Macy's Inc's Bloomingdale's division
said on Friday it will discontinue the Bloomingdale's By Mail
catalog by early 2009 and focus on the Web site.
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AP - Wholesale fees for Internet addresses ending in ".org" will increase 10 percent Nov. 9.
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