The Register reports that the French National Assembly has now voted through its “three strikes law” designed to clamp down on file-sharing and illegal downloads. Yahoo!News reveals that “IBM cut its offer for Sun Microsystems Inc to $9.55 a share after a thorough vetting and may soon unveil details of [...]
Just a week after a widely read news story about how Twitter, three years in, doesn’t have a business model, here comes the news today is that Google is in late stage talks to buy Twitter. Gosh, I wish someone had suggested last week that lack of a business model [...]
Yahoo!Tech reveals that “[s]hopping on eBay just got a bit more rewarding, at least for some users of the online auctioneer's site. On Wednesday, eBay Inc. launched a ‘beta’ test version of eBay Bucks, a program that lets participants earn a 2 percent reward on certain items they buy through [...]
Yahoo!Tech reveals that “[t]he European Commission is about to launch an investigation into how consumers' online data is being used by search companies, social networking Web sites and Internet service providers. […] Officials are particularly concerned about the growing use of deep packet inspection techniques that allow broadband providers to [...]
Rafe Needleman has a story today about how Twitter has gone three years without a business model, or a plan to make money. In fact, they only recently hired someone who’s specifically tasked with making a business out of Twitter. But as Needleman points out, that doesn’t mean Twitter isn’t [...]