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$2.1B Google Stock Sale In The Oven

As can be seen here, Google has filed plans to sell another 5.3 million shares, valued at about $2 billion. The company plans to...

Patent Trolls, Unite! Your Day Has Come

Patent trolls everywhere, rejoice. You may have the U.S. Supreme Court in your corner.It appears the high court is hesitant to monkey with existing...

Google, AOL Deal Creeps Closer to Finish Line

Google has inched closer to finalizing its deal to buy a 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s America Online. According to this Google...

Saddam Hussein Needs an Editor

(Warning: For now, both Web sites cited in this dispatch seem to be overwhelmed by all the attention.)Here's a job for you: Saddam Hussein's...

Google to Play Wireless Host?

Three newly unearthed patent applications attributed to Google employees offers some new tips about Google's wireless plans.Based on all the technology described in the...

Talking TLDs, T and A with Paul Twomey

Paul Twomey heads ICANN, the Internet's leading governor. ICANN meets this week in Wellington, New Zealand. He spoke to reporters briefly before the affair...

The Politics of Search

There's new Federal Election Commission rules about revealing whether an Internet ad is political in nature, and what group or individual paid for it.For...

Book Seller, Google Have Coffee Klatch, Discuss

Looks like Google is fooling around with mapvertising again, and has book seller Barnes & Noble in on the caper.Internet marketer Shimon Sandler says...

Google Magazine Ads: Not a Page Turner

Google's initial experience placing ads in magazines and other print publications, as Businessweek reports, has been lackluster. Some advertisers tell the publication that even...

A Yahoo Clause for Concern

Web publishers say they are having trouble meeting a Yahoo Inc. requirement for participants in its self-serve Web advertising feature.The problems have to do...