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US media giants sued over 'zombie cookies

The privacy lawsuit against MTV, ABC and others centres on the use of tracking cookies that are revived even if the user has deleted them so that data can still be collected Read more

29 July, 2010 by Sam Diaz
Six Questions Every Health Industry Executive Should Ask About Cloud Computing

Six Questions Every Health Industry Executive Should Ask About Cloud Computing

...it to analyze data, provide applications to employees and run special projects. Media giants are reported to be working on a cloud-like service that... Read more

2 June, 2010

AOL, Time Warner surge in pre-morning trading

...on Instinet. AOL stock gained 13 to 85-7/8. The two media giants announced plans early Monday to merge in an all stock deal... Read more

10 January, 2000 by Charles Cooper

Media giants form UK Net ads body

A UK association hopes to put a rocket up advertising on the Internet in this country. Read more

20 October, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Napster: A loud enough wake up call for media giants

They're getting the message... s-l-o-w-l-y Read more

5 June, 2001 by silicon.com staff

Green light for AOL-Time Warner merger

...its stamp of approval to the £140bn marriage of the Internet and media giants, with some restrictions Read more

12 January, 2001 by Evan Hansen and Patrick Ross

Techies wage war on copyright cartels

Cyberrights advocates and librarians are teaming up to take on the media giants in film, music and software Read more

19 May, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Viacom-CBS to build global brands

The merger of two US media giants will have significant impact on the Internet business Read more

8 September, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

Murdoch piracy drama: NDS lets lawyers loose on Canal Plus

Watch media giants wrestle in a lawyer's sack... News Corporation subsidiary NDS has... Read more

13 March, 2002 by Sonya Rabbitte

Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google

...Microsoft, which owns rival search engine Bing, has also reportedly approached other media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well... Read more

23 November, 2009 by Steven Musil

Pirate Bay trial to begin in Sweden

...protected movies and music. A civil claim brought by a group of media giants is also being heard with the prosecution. The plaintiffs — Warner Bros... Read more

16 February, 2009 by Steven Musil

Orange, TalkTalk voted worst for customer service

...a better deal than the other, the results astonishingly show the two media giants coming neck-and-neck with a score of 76 percent, placing... Read more

3 July, 2007 by Gemma Simpson

Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn

Deal sees search giant leap ahead of competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft in taking control of online video Read more

10 October, 2006 by Tom Krazit

Media and technology 'won't merge'

...despite talk of convergence and high-profile acquisitions of technology companies by media giants. Over the last six months, media giants have been increasing their... Read more

10 February, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

News sites embrace paid-search ads

Three old-media giants are taking up - or furthering their involvement with - the popular practise... Read more

26 August, 2004 by Sylvia Carr

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