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Google's behavioral targeting is an inevitability and, in one form, a current practice. People are aware of personalized results when logged into…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false copyright claims.The group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) is a non-profit that videotapes rodeos in order to expose animal abuse. SHARK posted two dozen videos to YouTube to…
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia needs to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script in an effort to promote Russian as an international language.The Kremlin is worried that Russian, once the main language in the Soviet Union is being used less because of local languages and the influence of English.Medvedev said that 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that…
Last week's letter war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock was just a preview of what's to come. Ichan and company have challenged Yahoo's employee retention plan (Icahn calls it a severance plan) in a Delaware court. Slated to go to trial in July, the legal matter will be settled in advance of the annual shareholders meeting on August 1.
This may or not be taught in PR 101, perhaps because the general tenet is obvious: Don't screw up good PR with bad PR. We'll chalk this one up to Metallica's management and not to the band itself, just to be fair.
The executive vice president of Yahoo's network division may be heading out the door. Jeff Weiner apparently plans to return from a four-week paternity leave, but rumor has it he won't stick around for long afterwards.
