So much for the time, money, and compromises on censorship Google’s committed in the region thus far. Plus its new music venture. An analyst said this morning that Google’s Chinese arm won’t do so well, anyway.
Yelp Controversy Highlights Trouble With Consumer Reviews
This consumer review thing may need to be rethought. Like just about everything else that came out of the Web 2.0 movement, customer reviews of businesses are huge targets for abuse.
Microsoft In Still More Antitrust Trouble
Microsoft apparently drew one step closer to getting in serious trouble with the European Commission yesterday. This afternoon, the company admitted to finding out that the European Commission believes its handling of Internet Explorer has been breaking antitrust laws.
Street View Draws More Privacy Trouble to Google
Google’s Street View feature on Google Maps is certainly no stranger to privacy concerns. It has attracted lawsuits, but it is still moving right along. Google even dismissed one lawsuit bringer as being "out of touch with the real world."
Apple Having iTunes Trouble with China
Apple is everywhere in the news this week, with its big score on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, its MobileMe problems, its iPhone 3G lawsuit, and now issues with the Chinese government. Apple’s iTunes store has been blocked in China for pushing a controversial benefit album.
Microsoft Snapshot Viewer Exposes Users To Trouble
An ActiveX control used to view Microsoft Access report snapshots poses a potential avenue for exploitation.
Google’s Earnings Cause Trouble For comScore
Overjoyed investors have made Google’s stock go up by about 20 percent since the company reported its earnings. comScore, on the other hand, temporarily lost eight or so percent of its value.
Calacanis’ Advice For Economic Trouble
Tell that to Bear Sterns.Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, formerly in charge of Netscape, former owner of Weblogs, Inc. who sold to AOL for a reported $25 million, has the answer for startups worried about getting through economic hard times: lots and lots of money.He’s a Fordham alum, so you know where to send your contributions.Not known for his silver tongue, the Brooklyn-native reportedly replied to a small, perhaps slightly inebriated group of SES New York karaoke goers’ concerns about the economic disaster the US is headed for with some sage-like advice.
Google & Facebook See European Trouble
Google and Facebook, sweethearts of the Internet who would never face legal challenges on this
Barbie Cummings Gets Cop In Trouble
This story reads like the plot line of the type of film the main subject is known to perform in (not known by me, mind you, it’s the first I’ve heard of her). But here goes anyway: Cop pulls over porn star; porn star "talks" him out of citing her; porn star posts pics of the "conversation" on her blog; cop is in deep, deep trouble.