Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From Board

CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved.
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Why Honeywell Is Suing Nest Labs

Will a fight over thermostat technology heat up?
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Privacy Less Controversial Than Piracy? For Now, Web Giants Don’t Sound the Alarm on EU Data Protection.

Though Internet companies seemed to have found their political voices during the U.S. SOPA/PIPA debate over Internet piracy last week, they’re less up in arms about another proposed bill.
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Viacom and Google Pick Up the Gloves, Again

The YouTube copyright case — now more than four years old — won’t go away. In the real world, though, most media companies have made their peace with the world’s biggest video site.
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Amazon Cuts California Affiliates Loose Over New Tax Law

Amazon has notified all California residents who participate in its affiliates program that a new tax law means they will no longer receive fees for referring site traffic that resulted in a sale.
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Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome. Is It Legal?

How did a start-up finally convince the music labels to let people share music with each other for free? Turntable didn’t. This could be interesting.
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Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC

Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?

Twitter Responds to WikiLeaks Document Demand by Feds–But Who's Next?

Earlier tonight, it was revealed in numerous news reports that Twitter had been ordered by a U.S. federal judge to turn over documents related to several people involved with WikiLeaks. Here’s what Twitter had to say to BoomTown in response, as well as what CEO Dick Costolo said onstage yesterday at the D@CES event about the importance of the free flow of information.

Even If It Had 500 Shareholders Today, Facebook Doesn’t Have to Disclose Financials Until Spring of 2012

For all those in a tizzy about Facebook’s deal with Goldman Sachs, which some think is designed to circumvent securities rules related to shareholder numbers and financial disclosure, meet Section 12(g)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Because if anyone cared to read the actual text of the ruling in question, even if it was determined that Facebook had 500 shareholders at this very moment, it is not technically required to disclose any of its financial details until the end of April of 2012.