Archives: 2008 February

Online auction giant warns in a shareholder filing that it faces slowing growth in three top markets and “changing customers demands.” Online auction leader eBay warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty getting former customers to return, adding to the normal challenge of attracting…

China’s top search engine said it plans to launch an instant-messaging service called “Baidu Hi.” China’s top search engine, Baidu, said it plans to launch an instant-messaging service called “Baidu Hi.” All elements of Baidu Hi, including product design, research, and testing, will be handled independently…

Despite problems, company raised the total compensation of Mike Zafirovski by about $1.8 million in 2007, regulatory filings show. Despite unsteady performance, a new round of layoffs and a plunge in its share price, Nortel Networks raised the total compensation of Chief Executive Mike Zafirovski by about $1.8…

Also: Snow full of bacteria. Read these stories and more at News.com Extra.

A new Internet Safety Technical Task Force will be led by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The task force includes Internet businesses, identity-authentication experts, nonprofit organizations, academics and technology companies. Among the members are AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), Second Life’s Linden Lab, Microsoft, […]

As if Microsoft’s takeover bid wasn’t enough, Yahoo now faces two more lawsuits from Chinese dissidents. In November Yahoo settled with the families of journalists Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, who were jailed on information provided by Yahoo China.

Zheng Cunzhu and Guo Quan filed the suits in federal court in California, although neither has been […]

When you sign up for an e-mail account at Google’s Gmail, you have to navigate past a CAPTCHA — squiggly words and letters that need to be typed into a box to prove you’re human and not an automated system looking to send spam. But in the war against spammers, CAPTCHAs are not holding up […]

Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent increase from 2006 sales of 990.9 million. Sales at the end of the year matched a trend that has demand spiking in the fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter sales reached 330 million.

“Emerging markets, especially China and India, provided […]

Two new vastly different handheld video games are winning praise for combining different genres to produce quirky new experiences. Bizarre little creatures that look like walking eyeballs and a puzzle-cracking professor may not seem to have much in common at first glance. But they are the…

With no decision yet from U.S. regulators and a deadline looming, the two companies agree to give themselves more time. XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio have extended by two months a deadline to potentially terminate without penalty Sirius’s year-old proposed acquisition of its bigger…