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Meg Whitman, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) outgoing CEO, will co-chair the national presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. The organization said on Friday that Whitman, 51, would play a lead role in the campaign’s financing and policy development. Since Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the 30-employee startup has been transformed into […]

Craigslist is not liable for discriminatory housing ads posted on its Web site, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision is a victory for the Internet bulletin board where every month more than 30 million people post offers to buy, sell or rent goods and services, including housing, free of charge. A group of […]

China’s carefully controlled media may have remained largely silent on the unrest in Tibet, but a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West. China, which routinely censors its news to avoid stoking popular sentiment, has less of a stranglehold over what is posted online, […]

BEIJING — Google said on Monday that it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO). Last month, Microsoft proposed buying Yahoo in a deal originally worth $44.6 billion. Yahoo’s board has rejected the offer, saying it was too low. “We would […]

AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) – Lou Reed is lashing out at new modes of audio technology, saying that “people have got to demand a higher standard” than current MP3 music files. The edgy rocker delivered the keynote speech at the South By Southwest Music Festival + Conference, which is underway in Austin, Texas. Reed was interviewed […]

A California bill that could lead to a tax on Internet music downloads faces slim odds of success, but the Democrat who wrote it says a debate over taxing such online retail transactions is overdue. Assemblyman Charles Calderon told Reuters late on Thursday that California should consider imposing a tax on entertainment downloaded from online […]

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and passed an anti-terrorism spy bill that permits lawsuits against phone companies. But the 213-197 vote was far short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a promised veto by Bush. He has demanded that any telecommunication company that participated […]

Could Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the aspiring singer embroiled in the prostitution scandal that toppled New York governor Eliot Spitzer, have a music career? Top talent scouts are weighing in on her chances after the 22-year-old racked up millions of MySpace views and launched much-sought-after new songs on priced-by-demand Web site AmieStreet.com since the Spitzer story […]

UPDATED: Senior executives from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) met on Monday to discuss Microsoft’s takeover bid for the company, according to two people familiar with the matter. The meeting was said to be the first since Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo, worth nearly $42 billion, on Jan. 31. Yahoo rejected […]

WASHINGTON — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged U.S. communications regulators on Thursday to allow more vacant television airwaves to be used for wireless services such as broadband Internet access. During an appearance before a northern Virginia technology group, Gates said the so-called “white space” spectrum between analog broadcast channels could be used to expand access […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will introduce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve up ads each time a consumer pulls up a Web page, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The new Ad Manager service will provide the ad service free, said the Journal. Google is […]

China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest Internet market by number of users, a research firm said on Thursday. The estimate by Beijing-based BDA was based on data from the China Internet Network Information Center, which indicated that the country’s Internet users totaled 210 million at the end of 2007. Nielsen/NetRatings […]