BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL rebranded its blog search engine Sphere as Surphace, so it could free up the Sphere.com domain to become the main page for what's now known as AOL News, a company source tells us.Our source says Sphere.come will "encompas (Read More)
BBC:
Emails from BBC readers on Egypt's decision to establish the world's first internet domain name written in Arabic, '.masr' - meaning '.Egypt'. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic domain name. AFP/Getty (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
After drug giant Pfizer Inc. announced that it was opening a new research center here, city officials aggressively moved to acquire surrounding land for an economic development project — triggering an epic fight over eminent (Read More)
New York Times:
The giant drug company said it would pull 1,400 jobs out of New London, Conn., eight years after its arrival set off an epic battle over eminent domain.
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TechCrunch:
Earlier this week the domain name industry was rocked by a shill bidding scandal at SnapNames. The company made the right early moves by admitting the problem and promising refunds, plus interest, to customers. Now, though, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A year ago, KillerStartups bought the killer domain name Startups.com for a few hundred thousand dollars. The company didn’t do anything with it other than redirect to the KillerStartups blog. Today, it realunched as a Q&A (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is just doesn’t know the domain name business. People pay exorbitant sums to acquire domain names, put Google or Yahoo ads on the parked pages, and collect the advert (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, already an economic, political and military power, is quietly pushing into a new domain: the media. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The agency that governs the Internet approved the introduction of complete Internet-domain names in languages that use non-Latin characters.
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