Bruised South Korean government takes on "infodemics"

Reuters - Sun Aug 3, 3:16 AM ET

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world's most wired society.

Olympic head: No deal on Internet censorship

CNET - Sat Aug 2, 5:37 PM ET

Olympic officials on Saturday said there was "no deal" with the Chinese government to restrict Internet access for foreign journalists covering the Beijing Games.

The FCC on Comcast: Confusion in spades

CNET - Sat Aug 2, 1:37 PM ET

Let me see if I've got this right. Federal regulators determined on Friday that Comcast broke the law by slowing Internet traffic for subscribers using BitTorrent to swap large files with other people. But then the FCC decided it was enough to issue a press release declaring the victory of the rule of law and now it's time to move on.

Yahoo board wins solid shareholder backing in vote

Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 8:41 PM ET

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 percent of the vote in his favor.

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- Amazon said it plans to have the seller of out-of-print books continue as a standalone operation based in Victoria, British Columbia.

Yahoo board emerges unscathed from annual meeting

AP - Fri Aug 1, 7:42 PM ET

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc.'s board emerged largely unscathed from the Internet company's annual meeting Friday as a subdued crowd of shareholders raised few questions about the directors' rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover bid.