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Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

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1hour ago | not rated yet | 1

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...

News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google

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9 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 6

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.

Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

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8 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.

Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore

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Nov 07, 2009 | 2 / 5 (4) | 0

Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.

Bluebeat to battle EMI over Beatles songs

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Nov 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs.

Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

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Nov 06, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 6

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.

Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay

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Nov 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.

EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders

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Nov 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.

Google providing better view of personal data

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.

EU agrees on new Internet user rights

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(AP) -- EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.

Second Life creates virtual world for businesses

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Nov 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Linden Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings.

Google wants businesses to ride Wave

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.

Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.

Microsoft redesigns MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook

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Nov 04, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 1

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

A growing PayPal could soon overshadow parent eBay

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture. But soon, eBay's biggest business will likely be PayPal, the online payments ...

Google's 3Q lobbying costs eclipse $1 million

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses eclipsed $1 million for the first time during the summer as the company tried to build on its dominance of Internet search and expand into other markets.

PayPal courts outside developers

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service.

Chinese agencies fight for control of Web game

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Nov 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to oversee "World of Warcraft," a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open.