Peter Kafka in Media on October 14, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
When it comes to creating profiles on its would-be social network, Apple doesn’t want music acts thinking
that differently.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 25, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Go Daddy, the large Internet domain registration company known for its sexy TV ads, announced on Wednesday that it was going where so far only Google has been willing to go: out of China.
During a hearing in Washington of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Go Daddy’s General Counsel Christine Jones told members of Congress that her company would discontinue offering new “.cn” domain registrations in China.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 7, 2009 at 3:45 pm PT
The latest tactic in China’s ongoing battle against online pornography: cash.
Authorities are now offering rewards to informers who provide tips about pornographic Web sites, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports (in English and Chinese).
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Sky Canaves, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 27, 2009 at 1:04 pm PT
Google has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 13, 2009 at 9:32 am PT
The online classifieds Web site is shutting down its “Erotic Services” section under pressure from state and local officials from around the country. In its place, Craigslist will open an “adult” category. It promises to keep said area cleaner by having employees sweep it periodically for ads that are obviously soliciting prostitution, etc. It won’t keep Craigslist free of bad stuff, but it may make it harder to find.
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Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 10, 2009 at 7:04 am PT
How does a 12-year-old’s sense of right and wrong play out when he or she is online? A recent Michigan State University study, published in the academic journal, Sex Roles, isn’t answering the question but attempting to get the conversation going.
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Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on January 28, 2009 at 11:32 am PT
Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay is bullish on China-based companies Baidu and Sohu. He says that recent fears about the Chinese market–fueled by the economy and recent Web controversies–are unfounded. Lindsay believes that even in an economic slowdown, there’s enough growth in the domestic market to fuel both companies.
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Marisa Taylor, Blogger, Digits, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT
The latest phishing scam on Facebook has raised the question yet again as to whether the social-networking site is dropping the ball on security measures and properly responding to privacy complaints.
Facebook faced consumer fraud charges in 2007 for allegedly responding too slowly to user complaints about harassment, pornography or nudity from the social-networking site. The probe into the company’s safety procedures by New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo resulted in a settlement requirement that Facebook respond to such complaints within 24 hours.
