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BoA Shows How Not to Defend a Reputation Against a WikiLeak
WikiLeak has been promising to release information that will be very damaging to a large financial institution. The site has been coy about the name, but it is widely believed that Bank of America is the institution in question. The bank has said it doesn’t know what the leak could be – but apparently it is readying for some kind of bombshell by registering domain names that could possibly be used to criticize or make fun of it.
In recent days it has taken "hundreds" of d [...]
Posted: Monday, December 27th 2010
AP Software Tracks Appropriation of Content
The Associated Press is adding software to its articles, intended to inform readers of usage rights associated with the content -- and act as a policing agent, automatically informing the AP about how the article elsewhere online.
Each article will be published with a digital "wrapper" -- data not visible to users that maximizes the content's ranking in search engines and tracks its movements across the web. The program will be introduced in stages stretching over the course of the next year, [...]
Posted: Monday, July 27th 2009
Hacked Accts Divulge Twitter's Thirst for Solvency ... and Meditation
A French hacker that managed to penetrate a number of sensitive Twitter employee accounts has leaked documents that reveal the company's financial ambitions, pending profit models and a "growing sense of entitlement" among its workers, Valleywag reports.
The hacker, who goes by the pseudo Hacker Croll, accessed the email, Paypal, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, MobileMe, and Gmail accounts of higher-ups [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 16th 2009
Hampered by Debt, Zango Shuts Down
Controversial adware firm Zango was sold last week, following a bank foreclosure after its failure to honor over $44 million worth of debts.
The company launched over a decade ago as 180solutions, after which it changed its moniker several times: 180solutions and Hotbar, before concluding its trajectory as Zango. Security firms -- to which it often conveyed threatening letters, and the occasional lawsuit -- gave it flak for installing potentially harmful a [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 23rd 2009
Revised TOS Gives Facebook Perpetual Rights to User Content
This month Facebook revised its Terms of Use, a document it is legally permitted to update at any time without informing users. Users demonstrate tacit acceptance of the Terms by continuous use of the site.
The revision grants Facebook complete, perpetual ownership of content up [...]
Posted: Monday, February 16th 2009
Biz Stone: Twitter to Charge Brands for Use
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging network will begin charging companies for certain components of its service.
Rumors that Twitter may start charging for use began taking concrete form in November.
"We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge fo [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009
LiveJournal Cuts 20% of Workforce
LiveJournal, a mature blog community launched in 1999, cut 12 employees -- about 20% of its workforce -- without severance yesterday, reports Gawker (via LiveJournal's xb95).
A previous version of this article stated the staff cut consisted of 20 employees. In an email to the editor, a company representative corrected the figure.
In December 2007 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 6th 2009
Facebook to Buy ConnectU, Whose Code it 'Stole'
ConnectU, which sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing its code, is now a Facebook acquisition target, the BBC reports.
Before starting Facebook, Zuckerberg conducted programming work for the founders of ConnectU, known at the time as HarvardConnect.com. He launched Facebook as an Ivy League-only network in 2004, sparking a [...]
Posted: Monday, August 18th 2008
User Consent: Just an Afterthought to Behavioral Tracking
Letters released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveal that many internet and broadband companies use targeted-ad technology without clearly informing users.
The largest online ad firm of all, Google, said it tracks web-surfing behavior across affiliate sites. And this isn't the first such outing: two months ago, The New York Times [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 12th 2008
Knol Could Knock Wikipedia Down a Notch
This week Google unveiled Knol, a Wikipedia rival, after six months in beta.
Knol is a publicly-authored knowledge site. To protect against page vandalism without stifling community input, new pages are placed under "moderated collaboration," meaning anyone can add to them but contributions only go live after the original author(s) review them.
Google's decision to cur [...]
Posted: Friday, July 25th 2008
Redlasso Sued for Violating NBC, Fox Copyrights
NBC and Fox, the co-owners of streaming video network Hulu.com, are suing video-clip service Redlasso for violating copyright and trademark rights.
Redlasso permits websites to embed short clips of shows "without any authorization, permission, consent or license from the networks," the lawsuit alleges. The site positions itself as "The Bloggers On-line Media Center [sic]."
The suit was filed in a New York federal dist [...]
Posted: Friday, July 25th 2008
Google's 'Parked Domains' Program Launders Invalid Clicks, Lawsuits Claim
Google faces yet another click fraud lawsuit, this time for alleged fraud in its parked domains program, which serves ads on recently-purchased, but still-empty, websites.
Online retailer RK West, which runs MalibuWholesale, claims it purchased ads from Google without receiving notice the ads would appear on parked websites.
RK West's [...]
Posted: Monday, July 21st 2008
GOP Unhappy Over Use of Its Trademarks in CafePress Merchandise
The Republican National Committee (RNC) plans to sue CafePress for permitting vendors to sell unlicensed Republican merchandise, including shirts and stickers that portray the Grand Old Party elephant -- even if those portrayals are positive.
CafePress.com enables users to "brand" shirts, caps, stickers and other items, then sell them in their own CafePress online stores.
"Please cease and desist from allowing vendors to utilize the federally registered trademarks of the RNC or we will be [...]
Posted: Friday, July 18th 2008
Yahoo Says No to Search Buyout, Restructuring Proposal by Microsoft, Icahn
Yahoo has rejected yet another offer from both Microsoft and Carl Icahn. On Friday, Microsoft offered to buy its search business if CEO Jerry Yang and his board were replaced by Carl Icahn and directors of his choice.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock called the proposal an "odd and opportunistic alliance" between Microsoft and Icahn. "We will not be bludgeoned into a transaction that is not in the best interes [...]
Posted: Monday, July 14th 2008
eBay to Pay $61.6M to French Retailers for Counterfeit Auction Goods
A French court has ruled in favor of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture in a case against eBay, which stood accused for auctions of counterfeit luxury goods by its members.
eBay owes the two companies damages totaling over $61.6 million. It was ordered to publish the verdict on its English and French sites, as well as in three French or international newspapers. The company plans to appeal. [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 3rd 2008
AP Ends Blogger Battle Over Fair Use of Content
The Associated Press (AP) reports it has resolved its conflict with copyright-infringing bloggers.
The AP recently attacked bloggers in a media fight about "fair use" of content. Specifically, it took issue with bloggers excerpting titles or sentences from its articles, which other publications mus [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Carl Icahn Launches Corporate Rant Blog
Carl Icahn debuted The Icahn Report, a professional blog, last week, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The controversial investor -- which currently seeks to oust Yahoo's board of directors -- first stated his intention to launch a blog in February, Reute [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Microsoft Makes it Clear: Yahoo Didn't Dump 'Em for the Shareholders' Sake
At the Cannes International Advertising Festival this week, Microsoft exec Kevin Johnson called Yahoo's search deal with Google anti-competitive and bad for advertisers.
But advertisers already knew the latter, and -- judging from unearthed documents dating months before the Yahoo/Google liaison -- apparently Yahoo has [...]
Posted: Monday, June 23rd 2008
Google Checkout Charges 20 Cents Per Use
Despite sentiments that the service is free, the WebGuild reports -- or rather, laments -- that Google Checkout, a competitor of PayPal, charges 20 cents per transaction in addition to a "hefty fee" for general use.
20 cents is also charged for canceled orders.
The Cos [...]
Posted: Friday, June 20th 2008
Free Press: NebuAd Has No Respect for Privacy
Behavioral ad platform NebuAd violates "fundamental expectations of internet privacy" according to a report from the Free Press and Public Knowledge group, reports MediaPost.
Free Press issued a report which stated "NebuAd's practices resemble several forms of 'attacks' on users that have generated considerable controversy and user condemnation."
The report compares NebuAd's target [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 19th 2008