Department Of Justice Waves On XM-Sirius Merger

The Department of Justice took long enough to make up its mind; both "no" and "yes" are pretty short words.  But in regards to the XM-Sirius merger, the DoJ finally landed on a drawn-out version of the latter.

Yellowpages.com Tops In Search Activity In 2007

A study into national Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) search activity, found shifts among the top sites in 2007 partly due to new strategic partnerships according to comScore.The IYP search market leader in the fourth quarter of 2007 was Yellowpages.com Network, which formed multiple partnerships with sites including Areaguides.net and 411.com, enabling them to be the leader in total IYP searches.

Behavioral Targeting Hits Road Block

One New York assemblyman, Richard L. Brodsky, has drafted a bill that would make it a crime — punishable by a fine to be determined — for certain Web companies to use personal information about consumers for advertising without their consent. There are essentially two main things in this bill