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Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
The music industry is halting its legal offensive against copyright pirates, hoping to get more help from Internet-service providers.
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LinkedIn CEO to Resign
LinkedIn said that its chief executive Dan Nye is resigning after less than two years at the helm of the social-networking site.
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Web Sites Make It Easier to Flag Trouble
Social-networking sites are making it easier to report abuses such as cyberbullying. The trend puts more tools in the hands of parents whose kids are the targets or the perpetrators of bullying.
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Online Video Ads Slow
TV networks hoped digital dollars would help offset declines in traditional ad spending, but even online video is showing weakness.
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Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web
Google has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content.
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Cyber Shopping Hits Plateau
Online retail sales are down so far in November and are projected to be even with last year's holiday season.
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Google Lets Users Edit Search
Google has begun allowing users to re-rank and edit their search results through a new set of personalization features.
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Extinction Threatens Yellow-Pages Publishers
The yellow-pages industry is running out of lifelines, with the economic downturn sending it into a tailspin that threatens its survival.
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Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
Facebook is rolling out a new advertising format that will prompt users to interact with the ads in an effort to shore up revenue.
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Craigslist Cracks Down on Sex Ads
Craigslist agreed to crack down on ads for prostitution on its Web site under an agreement with attorneys general from 40 states.
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MySpace Moves to Solve Copyright Issues
MySpace is adopting a system that aims to resolve copyright issues and boost ad revenue from some of the videos its users upload.
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Doubts Surround Google-Yahoo Deal
The likelihood that Google and Yahoo will walk away from their planned search partnership has risen. Talks with the Justice Department have failed to progress.
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Saving Money on Your Next PC
Walt Mossberg's annual fall PC buyer's guide focuses on how folks whose budgets have shrunk can still get something adequate for light use.
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Ways to Search, Sort, Sift Online Video
Some video-search engines are moving beyond tags and keywords and creating new tools to make it easier to search for videos.
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Some Shed Gadgets, Turn to iPhone
Lower-income households are turning in force to the iPhone and may be doing so to save the cost of a separate broadband connection and music devices.
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Microsoft in 'Cloud Computing'
Microsoft unveiled a new service that allows companies to use its data centers to run their Web applications, the latest firm to join the "cloud computing" trend.
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Twitter Goes Mainstream
One of the hottest technologies in Silicon Valley is also one of the simplest. The online service from Web start-up Twitter prompts users to do one thing: answer the question, "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less.
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Netflix Reaches Movie Deal With Samsung
Netflix reached an agreement with Samsung Electronics to bring movies from the Internet to TV sets through Samsung devices.
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EBay Posts Profit, Cuts Guidance
EBay swung to a profit from a year-ago period that was weighed down by charges related to its Skype acquisition, but the online auctioneer lowered its full-year targets.
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Honda Ramps Up Its Ad Strategy
Honda is buying all the online and mobile advertising space sold by Sony Pictures Television for one week to promote the launch of its Honda Fit.
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