U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in the way that it handles some ad sales. It is unlikely that the Federal Trade Commission has sent out civil investigative demands in relation to the probe, which would [...]

YAHOO! has concluded that TUMBLR, the social blogging service, is worth more than $1 billion. That’s what their betting on the service. Whether it’s worth that amount will depend upon whether or not the combined company can turn its millions of users into an interlocking set of services that no competitor can hope to replicate. [...]

Facebook’s “Like” feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the U.S. Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court. “Any suggestion that such communication has less than full constitutional protection would result in chilling the very valued means for [...]

A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation on Monday to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes for state and local governments, sending the issue to the House, where antitax forces have vowed to kill it. But the 69-to-27 vote in the Senate will give the measure significant momentum. Hundreds of retailers are [...]

Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for passage of a bill to effectively end tax-free shopping online. A final Senate vote is scheduled for May 6. The bill, called the Marketplace Fairness Act, would allow states to require online sellers around the country to collect sales tax for [...]

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I previously wrote that the FBI is being sued by GOOGLE for attempting to access files without a warrant. Now, it’s the Internal Revenue Service’s turn. The IRS continued to insist on warrantless e-mail access, internal documents obtained by the ACLU show, even after a federal appeals court said the Fourth Amendment applied. Newly disclosed [...]

A National Arbitration forum Panelist, Paul M. DeCicco, has found a Complainant guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, EVEN THOUGH NO RESPONSE WAS FILED!! In Horizon Publishing, LLC v. Opulence Communications Ltd, Claim Number: FA1302001487500, Horizon Publishing, LLC, a well-known and well-established publishing company that publishes a monthly print and electronic magazine named “South Florida [...]

GOOGLE is the first major company to openly challenge FBI’s warrantless data-gathering known as national security letters, which authorize a gag order ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The company asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco last week to grant a “petition to set aside legal process” in response to a national [...]

My Guest blogger, Mark Hershiser has posted this blog> I woke up this morning to an email that said “We have received a Temporary Restraining Order relating to domains in your account. We have disabled the domains.” Apparently domain investor Joel Williams and the company he was involved with BrandLab, are having some issues and [...]