Kenneth Corbin

The [old chestnut](/bus-news/article.php/3727181) about Time Warner spinning off AOL got some new life this morning, courtesy of *The Wall Street Journal*. Time Warner reports its earnings on Wednesday, and the company is then expected to inform us that they have finished all of the internal legwork required to separate the content and advertising business from […]

A key House committee is expanding its probe into the privacy implications of the behavioral targeting of online advertising, calling on more than 30 leading Internet companies to detail how they collect information and the steps they take to safeguard consumers’ identities. The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to executives at […]

Compared with the rather humdrum reaction that greets most FCC’s proceedings — drab, technical debates on things like spectrum allocation and the digital television transition — a survey of the talk coming from this morning’s hearing suggests that something truly sensational happened. By now, no doubt, you’ve heard the news. The deeply divided commission [voted](/government/article.php/3762801/FCC+Traffic+Throttling+Not+Comcastic.htm) […]

The Federal Communications Commission voted today to rebuke the nation’s largest cable provider for slowing certain Internet traffic on its network and failing to provide adequate notice to subscribers. By a 3-2 vote, the FCC approved an enforcement order that will require Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) to change the way it manages traffic, and submit a […]

On the eve of the Federal Communications Commission’s expected vote to punish Comcast for blocking peer-to-peer traffic on its network without properly informing subscribers, the agency is taking some fire from Congress. In a letter sent today to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) questioned the commission’s legal authority to intervene […]

Regardless of who wins the presidency in November, change is on its way to Washington. In that spirit, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) has unfurled a campaign to press for policies that will speed the development of broadband networks, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that every American has access to a high-speed Internet connection. […]

NEW YORK–So much goes on inside a store that marketers don’t know about. Sure, they know what products people purchase, but the physical retail environment just doesn’t lend itself to measurable information about how much time people spend looking at a display, what products they considered buying but didn’t, or which ones they simply ignored. […]

BT, short for British Telecommunications, has acquired Ribbit, a Silicon Valley startup that provides a platform for developers to build voice features into Web applications, for $105 million. Through the acquisition of Ribbit, BT (NYSE: BT) hopes to stay ahead in the telecommunications industry, which it sees as increasingly defined by innovation in software, said […]

Hasbro’s attorneys have carried the day. In response to the game maker’s suit against the two Indian brothers who developed the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, the developers yanked the app in the United States and Canada. Facebook said that the decision to take down the popular game, which has more than half a million users, […]

Source: Reuters After a regulatory review of nearly a year and a half, the nation’s two satellite radio companies have become one, announcing this morning that they have closed the merger and chosen a corporate name for the combined entity: Sirius XM Radio. The new company will have more than 18.5 million subscribers and reaffirmed […]

The efforts of government agencies to make their services and information accessible on the Web have not always been a resounding success, but at least they’re getting a little better, according to a survey research firm ForeSee Results plans to release today. In its quarterly survey, the group found that federal government sites saw their […]

Well, everyone who knows what the issue is about, I would suggest. And the lefties are crowing about it again today, with word that a blogger has helped secure statements of support for Net neutrality from each of the 13 Democrats challenging an incumbent Republican for a Senate seat this fall. Matt Stoller, who blogs […]