BusinessWeek reveals that, according to the latest Money Tree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (based on Thomson-Reuters data), “[v]enture capital investments dropped to the lowest level since 1997 in the first quarter, with just $3 billion invested.  […]  That’s down 61% in venture dollars invested from [...]

Yahoo!Tech writes that, according to experts at the World Wide Web conference currently taking place in Madrid, “[y]oung people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over.  […]  ‘Older [...]

Internetnews.com has an interesting article on how the battle between CNN and Ashton Kutcher for Twitter followers may spur Twitter to “adopt its long-awaited business plan.” The Register reports that “the four defendants in The Pirate Bay versus entertainment industry trial have been found guilty in a Swedish court of [...]

Yahoo!Tech writes that “[t]here are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly.  A report [released today] by security company McAfee Inc. finds that spammers are a scourge to your inbox and the environment, generating an astounding 62 trillion junk e-mails in 2008 that [...]

According to Yahoo!Tech, “[t]he European Commission began legal action against the U.K. Tuesday over its failure to protect Internet users from Phorm -- a covert behavioral advertising technology tested by the U.K.'s biggest fixed line operator, BT, in 2006 and 2007.  The move signals growing concern in Brussels over the [...]