Kenneth Corbin

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson speaks at NXTcomm last year. Source: AT&T A California congresswoman is asking AT&T to clarify the apparent discrepancies in the testimony of its chief privacy officer at a hearing on last week focusing on ISPs’ use of behavioral targeting technologies. AT&T (NYSE: T) says it’s all just a misunderstanding. Rep. […]

Facing down intensifying scrutiny over criminal activity linked to its Web site, Craigslist is staying cagey about any changes it might make to its listings policies. Craigslist, no stranger to controversy, has most recently grabbed headlines in connection with a medical student who allegedly shot and killed Julissa Brisman, a 26-year-old masseuse who placed an […]

Just one day after announcing the departure of CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe, MySpace today named Owen Van Natta to the social network’s top spot. Van Natta, whose appointment was widely expected, brings a wealth of social networking experience. Previously the chief revenue officer for Facebook, Van Natta helped engineer the $240 million investment from […]

Facebook has said it plans to adopt new governing documents after throwing them open to a vote by its users. The new policies specify, among other things, that Facebook’s members own the content they put on the site, an issue that stoked a heated controversy earlier this year. In February, Facebook amended its usage agreement […]

Amazon continues to buck the recessionary trend, today reporting first-quarter profits and revenues well above analysts’ expectations. The e-commerce giant posted net income of $177 million, or 41 cents a share, a 24 percent increase from the same period last year. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were looking for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) to post earnings […]

WASHINGTON — Members of a House panel today held the first in a series of planned hearings on electronic privacy, receiving widely varying recommendations from industry executives and Internet advocates as they begin work on a bill that would set limits on how online companies collect data about their consumers. The debate over online privacy […]

E-commerce giant eBay saw its revenues slip in the first quarter, but nonetheless turned in financial results that beat analysts’ modest expectations. After the market closed Wednesday, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) reported earnings of 39 cents per share on $500 million in net income, excluding one-time items. That figure was down from 42 cents on $560 […]

WASHINGTON — Dell observed Earth Day by laying out a policy agenda that calls on the administration to enact a government-wide plan for energy-efficient IT that would the freeze energy consumption rates of federal datacenters at their current levels. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) envisions the administration taking strong leadership in directing CIOs across the various agencies […]

Yahoo today said it plans to cut its global workforce by 5 percent as it attempts to trim expenses in the face of falling advertising revenues and tumbling profits After the market closed, Yahoo reported that profits in the first quarter fell 78 percent from the same period last year. Net income for the first […]