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Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
Google won’t disclose numbers, but the company says that spam attempts, as a percentage of e-mail that’s transmitted through its Gmail system, have waned over the last year.
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Yahoo, AOL May Abandon Web Radio After Royalties Rise
Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music.
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EFF study confirms Comcast’s BitTorrent interference
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a report containing analysis of Comcast’s Internet traffic interference activities. The EFF’s study provides strong evidence that Comcast is using packet-forging to disrupt peer-to-peer filesharing.
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Putting stock in the Internet: a look at the new NASDAQ Internet Index
The NASDAQ stock exchange just launched a new market-tracking stock index, designed to keep tabs on companies that make their living off the Internet.
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Congress to examine “the Internet” as a tool for homegrown terrorism
In particular, the bill cites the Internet as a tool used to facilitate “violent radicalization.” Despite some of the alarmist coverage of the bill, however, there is only one mention of the ‘Net.
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Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results
If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize. Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.
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Yahoo Offers Contextual Advertising In PDFs; Yes, PDFs
Yahoo and Adobe have teamed up to give publishers the ability to offer contextual advertising as part of their PDF document downloads.
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States Say Google and Firefox Are No Match for Microsoft – New York Times
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How to Structure Microsoft – Yahoo Deal (MSFT/YHOO) – Silicon Alley Insider
After we noted that Microsoft might eventually have to buy Yahoo (YHOO)–and why such a transaction would make sense–some readers asked why we thought this would be a “disaster” for Yahoo.
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Tongues were wagging earlier this week on speculation that the News Corporation would buy LinkedIn, the professionals-oriented social network, early next year. (Never mind that the rumors were thinly sourced.)
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While online video has had a place on most of the 150 websites behind Gannett’s (NYSE: GCI) over the past few years, the company has found it difficult to seamlessly organize, distribute and, most important, make money from it.
