E-Business & Internet

• Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant
  AP (October 06, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?
   
  
• Connecticut towns grapple with new Web law
  AP (October 06, 2008)
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Harwinton residents hoping to learn about recycling policies and library hours online are out of luck.
   
  
• EBay to cut 1,000 jobs, will buy Bill Me Later
  AP (October 06, 2008)
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - EBay Inc. said on Monday it will cut about 1,000 employees, reducing its work force by about 10 percent.
   
  
• Congress targets rogue online pharmacies
  AP (October 01, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has passed a bill intended to crack down on rogue online pharmacies that sell drugs without a valid prescription.
   
  
• Congress passes bill to help save Internet radio
  AP (October 01, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates.
   
  
• Apple faces iTunes test case in Norway
  AP (September 29, 2008)
  OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway's top consumer advocate said Monday he is taking Apple Inc. to the government's Market Council in a test case seeking to force the American company to open its iTunes music store to digital players other than its own iPod.
   
  
• Japan's online social scene isn't so social
  AP (September 26, 2008)
  TOKYO (AP) - Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's.
   
  
• T-Mobile uncaps data plan ahead of Google phone
  AP (September 25, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - In advance of the new Google phone, T-Mobile USA has changed the wording of the user agreement for its wireless data network and no longer claims the right to slow surfing to a crawl once a subscriber goes over a monthly usage limit.
   
  
• EBay gets conditional OK for stake in Korean site
  AP (September 25, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - EBay Inc. said Thursday it received preliminary conditional approval from South Korean regulators for its potential purchase of a stake in Gmarket Inc., operator of an online marketplace in that country.
   
  
• Visa develops payment software for Google phone
  AP (September 25, 2008)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Visa Inc. said Thursday it's developing mobile payment software for the new wireless phone powered by Google Inc.'s Android system.
   
  
• MySpace tries to strike new chord in digital music
  AP (September 25, 2008)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels.
   
  
• Wash. dating service links vintners, grapes
  AP (September 24, 2008)
  YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Desperately seeking a mate: Hopeless romantic seeks mature, well-rounded, traditional partner. Must be bold, yet not too sweet.
   
  
• Yahoo launches major upgrade to display ad system
  AP (September 24, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo Inc. launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising system Wednesday, one the company termed revolutionary as it bids to emerge from the shadow of search industry leader Google Inc.
   
  
• VCs shovel another $28.7 million into Digg
  AP (September 24, 2008)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Digg Inc., an Internet startup that specializes in rating news stories, is making a little news of its own with a $28.7 million round of financing. The investment announced Wednesday should squelch recurring rumors of a sale to Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.
   
  
• NYC transit added to Google's map service
  AP (September 24, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Google has added the nation's biggest public transportation system to its popular mapping service, showing travelers how to navigate New York City's mass transit system.
   
  
• New Post Web section to send readers elsewhere
  AP (September 22, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - The Washington Post is launching a new Web section linking readers to the best of political coverage - even scoops by rival newspapers.
   
  
• Newspapers cry foul over Yahoo-Google ad deal
  AP (September 15, 2008)
  PARIS (AP) - The World Association of Newspapers says it opposes a pending deal on advertising between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. The Paris-based group wants European and U.S. regulators to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
   
  
• Pfizer launches site weighing drug risks, benefits
  AP (September 15, 2008)
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Amid the deluge of drug advertising and news about safety issues, plenty of patients are bewildered over how to weigh the risks and benefits of a medication, or even how to find out what they are.
   
  
• Ahead of the Bell: Game sales show deceleration
  AP (September 12, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time in more than two years, data from market researcher NPD group showed that U.S. video game sales growth slowed to the single digits.
   
  
• ND telepharmacy project expands across country
  AP (September 12, 2008)
  ARTHUR, N.D. (AP) - As recently as three years ago, many elderly residents in this part of southeastern North Dakota were forced to order their medications by mail.
   
  
• Va. court strikes down anti-spam law
  AP (September 12, 2008)
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state's anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world's most prolific spammers.
   
  
• Researchers: Press struggling to adjust to Web
  AP (September 11, 2008)
  LAS VEGAS (AP) - Newspaper editors are struggling to adapt as more and more readers turn away from the printed page and toward the Web, mobile devices and other means to get their news, a leading news industry researcher says.
   
  
• Yahoo's home page, other sections to get makeover
  AP (September 11, 2008)
  SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is preparing to tweak several popular sections of its Web site, including its home page, during the next few months to accommodate more material from rival services as the Internet company tries to polish its tarnished franchise.
   
  
• EU justice chief welcomes Google privacy move
  AP (September 11, 2008)
  BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The EU's top justice official on Thursday welcomed a recent move by Google Inc. to cut the time it keeps users' search details.
   
  
• AOL adding third-party content to AOL.com
  AP (September 10, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - AOL wants you to check your Gmail and see what your Facebook friends are up to - the company just prefers you do these things from its site.
   
  
• Facebook unveils new look with a new approach
  AP (September 10, 2008)
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Since he started Facebook in college 4 1/2 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg has learned - sometimes painfully - that he can't make significant changes to the popular online hangout without triggering an uproar among indignant users who preferred the status quo.
   
  
• MBA exam tester tosses scores over Web cheating
  AP (September 10, 2008)
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The publisher of the graduate business school entrance test said Wednesday it has thrown out the scores of 84 prospective students after shutting down a Web site they used to cheat on the exam.
   
  
• Google promises EU better privacy rules
  AP (September 09, 2008)
  BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Google Inc. said Tuesday it will further cut the amount of time it stores data about users' search requests, to meet European privacy demands.
   
  
• German official wary of Google's Chrome browser
  AP (September 09, 2008)
  BERLIN (AP) - Internet surfers should approach the preliminary version of Google Inc.'s new browser, Chrome, with caution because its security is untested, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Office for Information Security said.
   
  
• Justice signals challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
  AP (September 09, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - In a possible blow to Yahoo Inc.'s hopes for an advertising partnership with Google Inc., the Justice Department has hired an antitrust litigator to review evidence for what could become a legal challenge to the deal.