Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war.According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn.
MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter.The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines.
The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort.
For now the virtual world--characterized by Second Life, World of Warcraft and other games--is governed by game creators, the player community and end user license agreements. The future may look different.
In his latest missive to Yahoo's board of directors, activist shareholder Carl Icahn blasts chairman Roy Bostock and outlines what he'd do if he gets control of the company's board. Right after he ditched Yahoo's poison pill, Icahn said he would "ask our new board to hire a talented and experienced CEO.
See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Roy tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit.
How will Google's algorithm determine shallow and low quality content? We could quickly get into an algorithm as censor pickle. Are you willing to ride that slippery slope for better search results. Google is ready. I'm not so sure I am though.
Hewlett Packard moved to shake up its board of directors amid the resignation of CEO Mark Hurd last year. A handful of former technology executives were named to the board.
Verizon, Google, Cisco, Ericsson and HP are joining a group designed to buy up intellectual property before other parties acquire it to launch lawsuits.The Wall Street Journal is reporting this group of tech giants--dubbed Allied Security Trust--is designed to thwart patent trolls and prevent stand-offs like the Research in Motion-NTP lawsuit, which was settled in 2006 for $612.
Disney announced a geolocation partnership with Gowalla and may take the whole sector mainstream.