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Facebook has a new honcho. The Web upstart-turned-conglomerate has lured away Sheryl Sandberg, Google's ad platform guru, to join its team as chief operating officer. Sandberg, who was with Google for six years, made an indelible stamp at the organization as she built out the Adsense and Adwords pro...

Ever since Microsoft made an unsolicited takeover bid for Yahoo -- a $44.6 billion proposition -- Yahoo has been beset with distractions, which the company readily acknowledged in making its annual report. The loss of key employees and the exodus of advertisers from its platform have been among the ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for not responding in a timely manner to a request it made six months ago under the Freedom of Information Act. The organization had asked for any communications between former DoJ attorney Jane Horvath and...

A measure to extend amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for three weeks failed to pass in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. The failure is a setback for Democrats who had been hoping for the extra time to hammer out a solution to a politically explosive issue: tha...

eBay will be introducing its new fee schedule for sellers, along with some other administrative changes, on Feb. 18. Some sellers are so incensed over what they perceive as a raw deal, they're planning to boycott the iconic online auction site from Feb. 18 through 25. Sellers have banded together to...

Microsoft has made a bid for Danger, the mobile software and services provider that designed one of the slickest devices on the market: the T-Mobile Sidekick. Applications on Danger-powered handsets include HTML Web-browsing, instant messaging, games, multimedia, social networking, Web e-mail and pe...

No service provider has been completely successful at micro-tailoring advertising for what is essentially a moving target: mobile device users. Now, though, CBS Mobile has linked up with Loopt to give advertisers a better chance to target these roamers, who thus far have been reachable only through ...

eBay has taken the controversial step of banning sellers from posting negative comments -- or even giving neutral feedback -- about the buyers with whom they do business. The new rule, which will take effect in May, is apparently a reaction to sellers flaming buyers who posted negative information a...

Swedish prosecutors are charging owners of The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer Web site, with "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws." Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem operate what is reportedly the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, connecti...

Qtrax, a new ad-supported music downloading service, has made a splash in the online music industry -- although it's debut was likely not quite what it had envisioned. The company previously reported that it had signed license agreements with the major music labels -- a coup that would have allowed ...

Of all the groups that have hurt the movie studios' financials through illegal file-sharing and piracy, college students have been the most egregious offenders, the Motion Picture Association of America has long maintained. In fact, it provided statistics two years ago that blamed college students f...

Prior to Tuesday, there were still a few investors optimistic that tech stocks would remain the proverbial safe haven. It was a reasonable stance, given that the focus of responsibility for the mounting economic troubles in the U.S. has been the housing market. Then Apple -- which routinely surpasse...

European approval of Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick may be in doubt as privacy hearings held by the European Commission get underway. The hearings are focusing on whether Internet protocol, or IP, addresses should be considered personally identifiable information. The risk to the p...

New stats confirm what many holiday shoppers already knew: Nintendo's Wii was the most popular game console of the season, with 1.35 million flying off shelves. Its popularity provided a huge boost to the industry, said the NPD Group, which issued the report. In 2007, the video game industry hauled ...

Outsourcing phenom Infosys Technologies posted mixed third quarter results, causing its stock valuations to drop by some 5.6 percent midday Friday. It also reignited speculation that the Indian-based conglomerate's fortunes may be too closely linked to the U.S. economy. For the quarter, Infosys post...

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate claims made late last year that Comcast blocked customers from using file-sharing services, specifically BitTorrent. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made the announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show currently underway in Las Vegas. The move came ...

The U.S. government is putting plans into motion to help consumers who have analog TVs continue to receive broadcasts on Feb. 17, 2009 -- the date when most television stations are scheduled to start sending digital signals exclusively. Without taking special steps, those relying on analog broadcast...

2008 may be the year the outsourcing function or process in a business becomes as standardized and mainstream as, say, accounting or human resources. Outsourcing, of course, has been an integral part of the global economy with countless firms handing off to third party providers their contact center...

Facebook has named three individuals and a Canadian porn company as defendants in a federal lawsuit it filed earlier this year in the Northern District of California, which accused unnamed people and companies of unlawfully accessing its servers. After two Canadian Internet service providers provide...

Will movies be as successful as TV shows and videos have been in moving to the Web? Paramount Pictures is betting yes, with the forthcoming launch of what it claims will be the first studio-backed feature film to make its debut online. Coming to the Web on Dec. 19, "Jackass 2.5" is an hour-long fil...