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Article | 15/04/2009 EBay plans Skype IPO next year

EBay plans to spin off Skype via an initial public offering (IPO) because the Internet telephony unit doesn't mesh with the company's two other busine...

Article | 15/04/2009 EBay to get more involved in transaction disputes

EBay is moving away from its traditional laissez-faire approach regarding buyer and seller interactions on its marketplace, and instead will get more ...

Article | 9/04/2009 MLB in social media stumble with MLB.TV blog

Major League Baseball purged all postings from an official blog in which it had candidly detailed its progress and troubles with a new media player fo...

Article | 8/04/2009 Baseball season opens with Web video problems

Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcast...

Article | 7/04/2009 Facebook calls for elections on new terms of use

Facebook members will get a chance to vote for or against the company's revised governance documents later this month.

Article | 6/04/2009 Appeals court keeps alive trademark lawsuit against Google

A trademark lawsuit against Google that a lower court had dismissed in 2006 has been given new life.

Article | 6/04/2009 Google acquisition rumors reflect Twitter's importance

While rumors of an imminent Google acquisition of Twitter were apparently off base, it wouldn't be surprising to see the companies strike up a formal ...

Article | 2/04/2009 EBay's crucial app dev project moves forward

EBay is moving ahead with a project to let third-party developers build applications on top of Selling Manager, eBay's tools used by thousands of merc...

Article | 1/04/2009 MySpace partners with Citysearch for local biz directory

MySpace has teamed up with Citysearch to create a directory of small-business profiles on the social-networking site, the vendors announced Tuesday.

Article | 1/04/2009 Wikia Search bites the dust, fails as a Google alternative

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' long-shot attempt at disrupting Google's search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday.

Article | 1/03/2009 Web 2.0 Expo focuses on doing more with less

Web 2.0 Expo kicks off Tuesday with the motto "the power of less," hoping that thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, managers and investors in atten...

Article | 31/03/2009 After early fame, DataPortability Project matures

The DataPortability Project tasted early fame in January 2008 when an indignant Robert Scoble joined the group after Facebook canceled the tech celebr...

Article | 30/03/2009 Google plays down security concerns over Docs

Google Docs users shouldn't lose sleep over the security concerns a security analyst has raised about the hosted suite of office productivity applicat...

Article | 27/03/2009 YouTube to open up access to its Insight analytics data

YouTube plans to open up its Insight analytics tool, which video uploaders can use to track a variety of metrics related to clips' usage, viewership a...

Article | 27/03/2009 Google Apps admins gain usage charts

Administrators of most versions of Google Apps can now view charts that graph the activity levels of end-users with the hosted suite's collaboration a...