The International Herald Tribune reports that “Antigua and Barbuda said Wednesday it was entitled to $3.44 billion in compensation from the United States in a World Trade Organization dispute over a U.S. ban on Internet gambling.  The compensation demand would be enforced as Antigua withdrew intellectual property protection for U.S. trademarks, patents and industrial designs, the government said.”

According to CNN.com, “

[p]rivacy, once regarded with suspicion in pre-reform China, has become a sought-after commodity among China’s burgeoning middle class.”  Thus, more and more young Chinese are enraged by “curbs on [their] Web surfing habits by China’s censors.”  However, “[t]he battle for control of China’s Internet, however, will remain much more covert than confrontational, according to Liu Bin, an IT consultant with Beijing-based consulting firm BDA.  He believes it will take a long time before the government loosens control over Web content, especially because the Internet-savvy middle class is unlikely to take to the streets […] over lack of Web access.”

Internetnews.com claims that “we are still years away from that information-rich and digitally-saturated land a lot of technorati are now calling Enterprise 2.0, which blends blogging, wikis social computing and virtual communities into a collaborative soup that has the potential to totally rewrite the rules of business and commerce in a Web 2.0 environment.”  According to Harvard Business School Professor Andrew McAfee, “[c]orporate America won’t be transformed by Enterprise 2.0 over the next five years.”  However, McAfee is “fully confident there will be some companies that will use it successfully and profit from its use.”

One of Google’s key executives, BBC News writes, has said that “Google would consider keeping a user’s search data for longer than 18 months if they had explicitly consented.”  The statement by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search at Google, comes at a time when the Mountain View company has come under fire from privacy groups in the U.S. and Europe for keeping too much data about users’ web history. 

Inc.com reports that, according to the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll of 600 small-business owners nationwide, “two-thirds said they would pay more for environmentally friendly goods and services for their business.”  43% of respondents said they believed “their customers would be willing to share the added costs of being environmentally-friendly.”