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Facebook overtakes MySpace globally
News The latest comScore figures show Mark Zuckerberg's social network has overtaken its News Corp rival for worldwide unique visitors [23 Jun 2008]
ISPs face renewed threat of file-sharing laws
News The government has threatened to introduce legislation forcing ISPs to control illegal downloading and file-sharing, while the industry warns against 'cumbersome regulation' [19 Jun 2008]
FCC urged to act on net neutrality principles
News AT&T and Verizon say the US Federal Communications Commission must take action against Comcast for slowing down peer-to-peer traffic to prove net neutrality legislation is not necessary [18 Jun 2008]
Yahoo agrees search-ad deal with Google
News Yahoo believes getting search ads supplied by Google will raise revenue by $800m in its first year — but the deal could give Google more power [13 Jun 2008]
Schmidt: Making ads work is Google's duty
News Google's CEO says the company has a 'moral imperative' to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the internet [12 Jun 2008]
Google sets its sights on the enterprise cloud
News The search giant says the lessons it's learned in the 'Darwinian' consumer market give it an edge as business computing moves online [11 Jun 2008]
Amazon blames outage on complicated systems
News The company has blamed its complicated infrastucture for a site outage that left Amazon.com inaccessible to many US visitors on Friday [09 Jun 2008]
Yahoo opens up address-book interface
News Opening the address book API is the second major plank in the Yahoo Open Strategy and seeks to tie the company more closely to other web services [05 Jun 2008]
Yahoo sets stage for proxy fight with Icahn
News With a date set for the annual shareholders meeting, Yahoo is preparing to fight billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn over the make-up of the company's board [04 Jun 2008]
Google lets businesses control site search
News Through its revamped Google Site Search service, the company will grant more control to those customers who want to use its search technology on their own websites [03 Jun 2008]
Joining Google's journey through search
Analysis Its spartan home page and lists of results may appear simple, but Google has offered some insight into the complex experiments and testing that help them build their product [30 May 2008]
Google's Gears turns one
News The project formerly called 'Google Gears' is increasingly being used to make online apps function when connectivity is unavailable [29 May 2008]
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding Google pay damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached news stories in violation of copyright law [28 May 2008]
Google claims Viacom lawsuit 'threatens' net
News In a legal response to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, the search giant says it could affect "the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the web [27 May 2008]
Google co-founder chases Yahoo ad deal
News Larry Page has expressed confidence that a deal between the companies could be structured to avoid violating antitrust laws [23 May 2008]
Liability and privacy: Key to Web 2.0 services
News Governments have been criticised for taking a 'risk-averse and closed-minded approach' that does little to encourage citizens to use their online services [22 May 2008]
Gates: Microsoft to target e-commerce search
News Bill Gates says the company is focusing on cornering the e-commerce search market, through a scheme giving cash back to Live Search users [22 May 2008]
The privacy side effects of Google Health 
Video Webware.com's Rafe Needleman and CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi discuss the recent launch of a beta test of Google Health, a service allowing users to compile their medical records online [21 May 2008]
BBC iPlayer chalks up 75m downloads
News The online, on-demand TV service saw another month of growth in April, fuelling ISP concerns about overloaded networks [21 May 2008]
The next move for Microsoft and Yahoo
Video CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper discuss what the near future might bring for each company and ask: could Microsoft be interested in Facebook too? [20 May 2008]
Google Health beta test launched
News The company has launched in the US a beta test of its Google Health service for archiving medical records and finding medical services [20 May 2008]
Developers launch anti-Phorm 'noise' tool
News A privacy group has launched an anti-targeted-advert tool in the shape of AntiPhormLite [19 May 2008]
Microsoft proposes alternative Yahoo deal
News The software maker is proposing a fresh transaction that would not involve the acquisition of all of Yahoo's assets [19 May 2008]
VeriSign will not revive Site Finder despite patent
News The controversial URL-typo redirection service will not make a reappearance, despite the belated award of a patent for the technique [16 May 2008]
More professionals to be allowed .pro domains
News RegistryPro, the company that exclusively runs the .pro top-level domain, says it is to widen availability to all accredited professionals [14 May 2008]
