China remain vigilant over online porn
Strict Net policing to continue even as Web ban is partially lifted in Xinjiang province following July's riots in the city, according to Chinese news report.
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Teen Muziic founder chastised by Vevo
Founder of music-video service that piggybacks on YouTube's API, runs afoul of Vevo, startup video service backed by three of top four largest music labels.
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China's endless war on online porn
China continues its fight against online porn by disallowing individuals to apply for domain names, showing how far it is willing to go to censor the Net.
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Chinese author to sue over Google Books
Google scanned a book by prominent Chinese author into the Google Books library without permission, report says, and faces lawsuit in China.
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Mozilla pushes back Firefox 3.6, 4.0 deadlines
The newest version of the open-source browser won't arrive this year, and a major update might not arrive until 2011. But there are plenty of features coming.
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Consumer groups urge block of Google-AdMob deal
Google's proposed acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob would make it too easy to bring the Web giant's dominant search ad business to the mobile world, according to two consumer groups.
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eBay's last-minute delivery push
Internet auction giant sheds light on how it is working to get more on-time Christmas deliveries and shed its yard-sale image.
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Twitter buys developers of GeoAPI
With location-aware services hot right now in the social-media segment, Twitter is buying the developers of a popular API used by developers on the platform.
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Where's RIAA's promised ISP help?
U.S. recording industry stopped suing fans for copyright violation in favor of partnering Internet service providers. But the latter isn't happening, yet.
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Web staggers under pre-Christmas DDoS attack
Several high-profile e-commerce sites were inaccessible for around half an hour Wednesday evening, due to what customer support at a major DNS provider called an attack.
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Virtual world a platform for festive giving
Singapore gamer offers tips on making extra virtual cash in games, while Facebook lets users buy credits that can be used to purchase physical gifts.
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Does Facebook really lead to divorce?
Facebook is popping up in divorce cases as all those pokes, instant messages and high school flames catch up with folks with cheatin' eyes, according to report.
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Warner Music, Hulu pen modest content deal
More than a dozen music videos from the Warner act Muse are available on Hulu, which continues to cut smallish deals with some of the major labels.
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Yahoo shutting down for the holidays
Employees have known since April that they'll have to take unpaid leave or vacation days for the week between Christmas and New Year's as a cost-saving measure at Yahoo.
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Virtual world designer Metaplace to shutter
Saying it hasn't been able to gain traction as a consumer user-generated content service, Raph Koster's leading game design company is shutting down.
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Yelp bails on Google deal?
Less than a week after reporting it was practically a done deal, TechCrunch has backtracked and now says that Yelp walked away from a US$500 million buyout.
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Big Facebook privacy void: Controls on Connect
If you're sharing info on your news feed with Facebook Connect, it's visible to either all your friends or none of them, something that Facebook can and should change.
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Content search deals make Twitter profitable
Data-mining deals signed in October will bring in US$25 million in exchange for rendering Twitter's tweets searchable on Google and Microsoft Bing.
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Report: O2 to buy VoIP startup Jajah
Mobile arm of Telefonica Europe apparently won bidding war for the Internet telephone company with US$200 million offer, according to published reports.
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Nothing 'to worry about' customized search
Analyst notes Google's move to extend personalized search to non-logged in users was about growing ad revenues and market share, not intrude on user privacy.
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