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MSNBC
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Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online.
Facebook executives told reporters at..
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BusinessWeek
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CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008
As the year winds down, so often does the Web rumor mill. After all, even the most prolific bloggers have to put in some holiday time with the..
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BBC News
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A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case.
TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America.
A judge made a default ruling in favour of..
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BBC News
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The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system.
Called Beacon, the system tracks web shopping on partner sites outside Facebook and then sells adverts to the so..
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BBC News
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Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook..
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BBC News
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British and Dutch police have shut down one of the world's biggest sources of illegally-downloaded music.
A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.
The..
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BBC News
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Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.
The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person.
Mor..
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Yahoo News
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The New York Times Co. plans to stop charging Internet users for access to its columnists and Op-Ed pieces on a section of its Web site known as TimesSelect, The New York Post reported on Tuesday.
The Post, citing a source briefed on the matter, said a..
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MSNBC
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YouTube, which has had to pull copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, a survey found.
The U.S..
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BBC News
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Internet auction site eBay has bought StumbleUpon, a website that recommends other websites, for $75m.
The deal means eBay will get access to almost 2.5 million registered users, who recommend sites to each other.
Users get search results that are b..
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CNN
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The higher gasoline prices go, the more money business Web entrepreneur Jason Toews makes.
He started an Internet site, GasBuddy.com, in 2000 to track daily gasoline prices using volunteers to e-mail what they find. "Hardly anybody ever used it," Toews..
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New York Post
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Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular..
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BusinessWeek
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CEO Jim Buckmaster has an unusual business approach for the popular classified ads site: Keep it simple and don't try to maximize revenue
Craigslist.org CEO Jim Buckmaster has been called many things: anti-establishment, a communist, and a socialistic..
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MSNBC
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MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., on Tuesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.
Viacom claims that YouTube has displayed more t..
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ZDNET
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A Brazilian court said Tuesday that Internet service providers could allow Web surfers access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, a day after they started blocking it because of a celebrity sex video...
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Journalism.co.uk
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DigitalJournal.com has re-launched as a revenue-sharing social network website offering financial rewards to readers for posting news and comments...
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Beta News
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Microsoft has decided to shut down its MSN Music downloads site by mid-month, transitioning it to an entertainment portal. In addition, the company will redirect those looking for music downloads to either RealNetwork's Rhapsody site or its upcoming Zune..
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BBC News
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The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.
Its "data availability" project will let members share public profile information with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket..
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MSNBC
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RushmoreDrive, a Web search site geared to black audiences in the United States, will open its doors to the public on Thursday in a major foray for parent IAC/InterActiveCorp into Web content aimed at specific communities.
Johnny Taylor, chief executiv..
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MSNBC
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A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether anti-discrimination rules apply to the Web.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Roomma..
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