Kenneth Corbin

Following a [wave of changes](/breakingnews/article.php/3766596/eBay+Revamps+Fees+as+Amazon+Muscles+In.htm) aimed at making its marketplace more buyer-friendly, e-commerce giant eBay has slashed the fees it charges sellers to list items on its fixed-price store. The move continues an overhaul set off by incoming CEO John Donahoe, who took the reins from Meg Whitman in March, declaring that he would work […]

Yahoo Buzz, the Digg-like social news site Yahoo unveiled as an invite-only service in February, is now open to all publishers. Buzz launched with about 100 publishing partners, expanding quickly to more than 400. A handful of the top-rated stories from each day rotate into Yahoo’s homepage, creating a deluge of traffic orders of magnitude […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today unveiled a sweeping new architecture for its repository of financial disclosures, promising that the new system will give investors far greater insight into the filings of mutual funds and public companies. Called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications, the new database will gradually replace EDGAR, the agency’s […]

Source: Reuters Customer satisfaction with online information-retrieval services is on the rise, reaching a record high and revealing a shift in the way people are seeking out content, according to a new study. To gauge how effectively businesses are satisfying consumers’ needs, researchers at the University of Michigan developed the American Customer Satisfaction Index, or […]

With the digital television (DTV) transition six months away, the Federal Communications Commission today announced an ambitious education campaign to make sure that no one is caught by surprise when television broadcasters shut off their analog transmissions next February. Beginning later this month, the five commissioners and their staffers will travel across the country to […]

Upon its [introduction](/bus-news/article.php/3709816) in November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heralded the Beacon ad platform as a hundred-year revolution in advertising. What it became was a PR nightmare that raised many questions about the maturity of the young company. When Beacon started broadcasting the Christmas gifts people were buying to all of their Facebook friends, the […]

A controversial Federal Communications Commission proposal to build a smut-free wireless broadband network that would provide no-cost Internet access to nearly all Americans is inching forward. But the auction that would get the process in motion isn’t likely to happen until well into next year, according to the FCC. Under the plan, the winning bidder […]

Another chapter in a tumultuous year for Yahoo has come to an end, as the portal giant solidified its board of directors with the appointment of two members from activist investor Carl Icahn’s hand-picked list. Yahoo today named Frank Biondi and John Chapple to its board, filling out a roster of 11 directors. The expansion […]

The debate over online privacy may be headed for a lull in the coming weeks, but you can expect it to resume in earnest next year, when legislation is likely to appear before a new Congress calling for baseline safeguards for Internet users. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the […]

The social networking arms race has gone global. A recent report from online metrics firm comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) revealed that social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Bebo and Hi5 have collectively seen their traffic rise by 25 percent over the last year. Of course, the popularity contest is usually dominated by talk of […]

As it continues to crack open its platform, Yahoo has brought its Fire Eagle API out of beta, now giving users the ability to broadcast their physical location to participating sites across the Web. Essentially, Fire Eagle is a clearinghouse that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) maintains where users can update their location, and choose which sites […]

As cyber crime and e-commerce continue to boom, most states are failing to keep up with the increasingly sophisticated threats, according to a new study. Consumers could lose confidence in online shopping if attorneys general don’t get more aggressive about prosecuting Internet fraud, the report stated. In 2007, the Federal Trade Commission had 221,226 complaints […]