Microsoft on Friday announced its first major deal since failing to buy Yahoo Inc, agreeing to acquire Web-based survey company Greenfield Online Inc for about $486 million.
Thousands of people suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on Wednesday.
EBay Inc is cutting the fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.
Google Inc said on Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail.
Google Inc's 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc's AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
An eccentric millionaire has put his entire life up for sale on the Internet - including his title of Lord of the Manor of Warleigh - in the hope of converting his assets into cash.
Video-sharing websites like YouTube must do more to protect people from the Internet's "dark side" such as pornography or images of child abuse or bullying, an influential group of MPs said on Thursday.
More than one in four Europeans regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with regular TV, according to Internet research firm Jupiter.
Pay-TV firm BSkyB is to launch an online subscription music service and has signed the world's largest music group Universal as its first partner, in a deal that could challenge Apple.
Facebook is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said late on Sunday.
Microsoft said on Monday it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo, but only if a new Yahoo board is elected - a big boost for financier Carl Icahn's board slate.
NEW YORK (AP) - Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format.
NEW YORK (AP) - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.
NEW YORK (AP) - A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
Shares in Vodafone rose after the mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events will be made available to users of the social networking website.
PARIS (Reuters) - A court in France ordered eBay to pay 38.6 million euros (30.6 million pounds) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods on its online auction site.
Digital music seller Rhapsody is launching a $50 million marketing assault on Apple's iTunes, offering songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless, Rhapsody said on Monday.
PARIS (AFP) — Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.
EU's telecoms chief Viviane Reding said on Friday that China's censorship of the Internet was "unacceptable" and that the Beijing Olympics were a chance for the country to show its commitment to free flow of information.
