The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned more…
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Tim O’Reilly spoke with me last week about Internet companies acquiring massive proprietary data sets. “We’re kind of heading toward data as a source of monopoly power in some cases,” he told me, comparing data to “Intel Inside” as a barrier to market entry. He qualified a moment later, “There’s so much innovation still ahead that I’m pretty confident there’s room for more…
Information on how Facebook tracks its users behaviors both on and off site has been released. Most worrisome is that Facebook keeps a running log of the sites a user has visited in the past 90 days. more…
Experian Services India Pvt Ltd, a leading market research company, recently surveyed the online behaviour of the Indian population in the online shopping category. The company monitors and provides daily insights on how internet users interact on websites. more…
NEW YORK – Russia’s largest Internet company and most visited website goes public today with an initial public offering (IPO).
Yandex, a popular search engine and web portal that has shown a profit since 2002, will offer 52.2 million shares priced between $24 and $25. more…
ISTANBUL – Thousands of Turks gathered in some 40 cities and towns around the country on Sunday, to join marches organized on Facebook against state Internet censorship.
The trigger for the protests was a decision by Turkey’s Internet regulator, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, or BTK, to introduce more…
On Sept. 22, Netflix began offering its streaming movie service in Canada. This was Netflix’s first venture outside of the United States, and because the company wasn’t offering its traditional DVD-by-mail plan to Canadians, its prospects seemed questionable. How many people would pay $7.99 per month (Canadian) for the chance to watch Superbad whenever they wanted? more…
When Android debuted in 2007, I couldn’t figure out how Google had managed to apply an Apache license to the project. Java, like Linux, was governed by the GPL and thus incompatible with the more permissive license Android was sporting. Stefano Mazzocchi subsequently answered the Java related questions: Google wasn’t using Sun’s VM, they’d built their own. more…