A consortium of magazine publishers including Time and Condé Nast plan to jointly build an online newsstand for publications in multiple digital formats, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, visited the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad and announced his company would create a virtual copy of the museum’s collections at its own expense, and make images of four millenniums of archaeological treasures available online, free, by early next year.
Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said Tuesday.
In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the Wal-Mart and Amazon.com are waging an online price war that is spreading through product areas like books, movies, toys and electronics, the New York Times reports.
Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google , a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 | Source: The New York Times
Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with desperation during the downturn. But a new breed of products is tackling the trickier matter of preventing identity theft, says the New York TImes.
AOL plans to cut one-third of its workforce, or about 2,500 jobs, in an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs as part of its planned spin-off from Time Warner.
U.S. department store operator J.C. Penney said on Wednesday it will stop publishing its twice-yearly "big book" catalogs as consumers increasingly turn to online shopping.
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 | Source: The Associated Press
With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are tricking consumers into signing up for subscription services they don't want.
Like contributors to Wikipedia before them, volunteers are democratizing online map creation -- a field that used to be the exclusive domain of professionals and specialists. And the information they gather is becoming increasingly valuable commercially. The New York Times reports.
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