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- Settlement Likely In Microsoft-EC Antitrust Cases
- It appears increasingly likely that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will finally settle its long-standing litigation with the European Commission. The EC has agreed to “market test” a Microsoft offer to include a ‘ballot screen’ on new PCs so that users can easily choose to install a browser other than Internet...
- External links 2009-10-07
- SEC Watch: News Corp.'s Murdochs Take Pay Hit, Ailes Gets A Raise
- Peter Chernin barely edged out Rupert Murdoch in 2008 as the highest-paid News Corp (NYSE: NWS). exec but Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes handily beat them all in fiscal 2009 with total compensation of $23.7 million. That’s more than double the $10.9 million Ailes made in 2007...
- External links 2009-08-23
- FTC's Vladeck: The Era Of Self-Policing Online Ads Is About To Change
- David Vladeck, the new head of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, is not one to be impressed by the arguments that web users appreciate ad targeting because they get free content in return. And don't even bother telling him that consumers want to see more...
- External links 2009-08-06
- FTC Says Probe Into Google, Apple Boards Continues, Even With Schmidt's Resignation
- Eric Schmidt may have resigned from Apple's board, but that doesn't mean that the Justice Department is going to curb its antitrust inquiry into the overlap of directors on the companies' boards, which likely prompted Schmidt's resignation in the first place.In a statement, Bureau of Competition Director Richard Feinstein...
- External links 2009-08-03
- Yahoo Updates Privacy Controls On Search, Pageviews
- Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), perhaps hoping to get the focus off its finances and CEO search, will reduce the amount of time it holds on to user data to three months from just over a year. After that period, Yahoo will "anonymize" user log data within 90 days with limited...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Google Quietly Tries Brokering Deals With ISPs To Get Priority Access
- Congress has failed to pass legislation regarding so-called "Net Neutrality," and now the issue is again top of mind as Internet providers seeking preferential treatment; network operators considering a tiered approach, and once-staunch defenders beginning to soften their stance on the matter. This time, it appears Google (NSDQ: GOOG),...
- External links 2008-12-15
- FCC Cancels Meeting And Leaves Wireless Broadband Plan Up In The Air
- The FCC canceled its meeting on Thursday, which was expected to hear the fate of a controversial plan to auction off spectrum that would provide free nationwide Internet. Late last week, a pair of high-ranking lawmakers asked FCC Chair Kevin Martin to put aside the AWS-3 auction proposal to...
- External links 2008-12-15
- White House Opposes FCC Chair's Latest Broadband Plan
- The White House is opposing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's plan to auction off spectrum that specifies exactly how the winner must use it, the WSJ reports. Next week, the agency will vote on a plan to promote a free, wireless broadband network through new spectrum allocations, but it holds...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Congressional Report Accuses FCC's Kevin Martin Of Abusing Power
- FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got slapped on the wrist in a new congressional report PDF from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that does little more than throw water under a bridge. Martin's days are numbered at the FCC and President-elect Barack Obama is presumably vetting candidates to...
- External links 2008-12-09
- Comcast Wins Appeal Against FCC's Cable Ownership Cap
- A federal appellate court smacked the Bush-era FCC with a ruling overturning the 30 percent cap on cable ownership and possibly opening the doors to even more cable consolidation. It’s the second time that the DC court has ruled the FCC failed to justify the rule, established to keep...
- External links 2009-08-28
- EC Media Commissioner Backs Google Books Plan
- Given all the controversy, legal action and anti-trust scrutiny surrounding Google’s plans to digitise millions of books, the search giant has been given some welcome backing from European Commissioner Viviane Redding. The outspoken French politician and former journalist, responsible for Europe’s digital media policies, said in a Q&A document...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Judge Delays Hearing In Google Books Case, As Talks Accelerate
- With talks to change the terms of Google’s settlement with publishers over its book-scanning project in full-force, a federal judge has delayed a long-awaited hearing in the case. Both Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the Author’s Guild had filed motions with the court asking for the hearing to be delayed,...
- External links 2009-09-24
- FCC Lays Out Potential New Rules For The Open Internet; No Discrimination And Transparency Are Key
- As expected, the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski laid out the agency’s plans this morning for new rules that will prevent telecom companies from discriminating what kind of traffic or applications run over wired or wireless networks. In a lengthy speech at The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization...
- External links 2009-09-21
- FCC To Propose New Net Neutrality Rules; Wireless Operators Will Be Affected Too
- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will give a speech on Monday that will outline new net neutrality rules, which will dictate how internet and wireless providers treat or restrict the flow of content, according to several reports who are familiar with the speech. Reuters reports the proposed rules could potentially...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Google Will Seek EU Publishers' Permission For U.S. Books Project
- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the right side of EU states’ copyright law. Google confirmed to paidContent:UK in a statement that it will digitize either the full text or excerpts from...
- External links 2009-09-07
- Yahoo Insiders Take $2,159 Out For Every $1 They Spend On Stock
- His interest piqued by Rafat’s post about Hilary Schneider’s $1 million-plus sale of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock, activist investor Eric Jackson took a closer look at sales by company insiders. The resulting chart covering Yahoo insider purchases, sales and compensation for the past two years is embedded below. One...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Arkansas Papers Ask Feds To Approve Joint Venture
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc., publisher of the state’s largest paper, and Stephens Media, owner of The Morning News and weeklies in Arkansas and Missouri, want to merge their Northwest Arkansas properties into a joint venture with equal interests. The two have asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission, and...
- External links 2009-09-03
- SEC Watch: Andresseen's Fund Will Own Less Than 5 Percent Of Skype
- EBay kicked off Tuesday with news that it’s selling Skype to an investor group for $1.9 billion in cash—and a bit of a surprise that it’s keeping a 35 percent interest. The SEC document just filed sheds a little more light on the deal, which values Skype at $2.75...
- External links 2009-09-01
- James Murdoch In Edinburgh: 'Analogue Attitudes In A Digital Age'
- Twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch delivered the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, chip-off-the-old-block James Murdoch took the stage tonight to lambaste the BBC, decry Ofcom and call for an end to what he calls the “creationist” approach to managing media—the end of “analogue attitudes...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Can The FCC Get Free Wireless Internet To Work?
- The FCC is taking another stab at crafting a policy that aspires to create a free nationwide wireless broadband network to encourage the adoption of broadband (well, as long as it's not used to access porn). The idea is not new, and the last proposal failed miserably, so it...
- External links 2008-12-05
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