Kenneth Corbin

Now, it’s the states’ turn to shine a light on the Yahoo/Google alliance. Several states’ attorneys general have opened reviews of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) advertising partnership with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The move adds a new regulatory wrinkle to a deal that has already drawn scrutiny from lawmakers and the Department of Justice. InternetNews.com has confirmed […]

What a difference a venue makes. Just a week after a French court socked eBay with a $63.2 million bill for abetting the sale of counterfeit Louis Vuitton goods, the e-commerce giant emerged victorious from a very similar case in Manhattan brought by luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co. Turns out, U.S. law is on its […]

In an ongoing effort to build out its Web publishing and social media businesses, Lycos is expected today to unveil Webon, a drag-and-drop platform designed to allow anyone to build sleek Web sites with interactive social features. The rollout comes as static, “Web 1.0” sites look increasingly dated, and people are coming to expect to […]

Life isn’t getting any easier for Yahoo, as billionaire investor Carl Icahn is stepping up his campaign to take control of the company. This morning Icahn filed definitive proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, stating that he would put up nine directors in an attempt to replace the entirety of Yahoo’s incumbent board […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin recommended today that the agency take action against Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, for “arbitrarily blocking” Internet traffic over its network and failing to inform subscribers of its policies. Martin issued a draft order charging Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) with acting against the FCC’s three-year-old Internet principles. The order […]

Sometimes we find opportunities in strange corners. Earlier this week, I was in Washington covering a Senate hearing looking into the privacy implications of behaviorally targeted ads on the Internet. And, as with most of the discussions on that issue, we got a lot of what we expected — privacy advocates called for muscular legislation, […]

Anyone who concerns themselves with shiny gadgets knows that the iPhone is a phenomenon. Whether it lives up to the hype or not, the thing has simply been the coolest phone on the block since its showy unveiling last January. Then came the madness late last June when it hit stores, a three-day drudge where […]

MySpace has jumped on the iPhone bandwagon, today unveiling an application that will deliver a mobile version of the social network to Apple’s hugely popular smartphone. The application will be available as a free download from Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes store and the forthcoming iPhone App Store. According to John Faith, general manager and vice […]

WASHINGTON — Bob Dykes, CEO of NebuAd, an online advertising and consumer tracking firm, fired back at critics of his company’s practices during a Senate committee hearing here today, amid growing government concern over privacy issues in Internet advertising. “NebuAd’s systems are designed so that no one — not even the government — can determine […]

WASHINGTON–If the recent press wasn’t bad enough already for NebuAd, a public interest watchdog group today released a report suggesting that the Redwood City, Calif-based startup’s controversial plan to target ads according to people’s browsing habits collected from Internet service providers (ISPs) might be illegal. At a meeting with reporters here at the headquarters of […]

A new study from the Pew Internet Project has found that while overall broadband adoption is up, the portion of African Americans with high-speed Internet access showed only modest growth in the past year, while among lower-income households it actually declined. The survey found that 55 percent of all adult Americans have broadband service, up […]

New rumors are bringing back some of the old names in what has become one of the most dramatic deal sagas to grip the tech industry in recent memory. The latest round of leaks surrounding Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), appearing in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that the two companies are continuing […]