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New Yahoo Video Introduced To Onlookers
It's tempting to dismiss this as a case of "too little, too late" - Microsoft and thousands of shareholders are already at…
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News Corp Being Played By Yahoo
When News Corp offered Yahoo a deal last summer - MySpace in exchange for a stake in Yahoo - Rupert Murdoch's company received the brushoff.
New Media Ad Spending May Hit $12.6B In 2012
If a Parks Associates report is right, the next handful of years should be a great time for everyone in the "new multimedia platforms" advertising business; the report's findings state that, in 2012, over $12.6 billion will be spent on these platforms.
EU Wants To Extend Copyrights For Musicians
The European Union's internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has proposed extending the copyright protection for music performers from 50 years to 95 years. "It is the performer who gives life to the composition and while most of us have no idea who wrote our favorite song - we can usually name the performer, " McCreevy said. If the copyright protection is not extended thousands of…
Chinese Freedom Fighter Slams Google
You have to love sometimes the rhetoric of freedom fighters. The US had Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. More recently, China has university professor Guo Quan, who, after being deleted from Google's index at the behest of the government, called Google "a servile Pekinese dog wagging its tail at the heels of the Chinese communists."Ooh. I love it when people get all revolutionary.
Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wants all online retailers to collect tax on New York sales, even if the retailer is not based in the state.
