Category Archives: Internet

Justice Dept. ruling opens a door for online gambling

By doris | Published: December 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reversed its long-held opposition to many forms of Internet gambling, removing a big legal obstacle for states that want to sanction online gambling to help fix their budget deficits. Although the opinion dealt specifically with lottery tickets, it opened the door for states to allow [...]

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8 Class Action Settlements For Products You May Own

By doris | Published: June 18, 2011

Full Story at ABCNews.go.com Free cash on the Internet? No, you don’t need to adjust your spam filter. A growing cadre of consumers are tapping into class-action court settlements reached with manufacturers and service providers on behalf of large groups of consumers who allege they’ve been wronged. “This is the only legitimate free money on [...]

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Online poker companies indicted for fraud

By doris | Published: April 15, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The founders of the three largest Internet poker companies have been indicted for running illegal gambling operations, federal law enforcement officials said Friday. The United States Attorney in New York unsealed the indictment against eleven people, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker. [...]

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FCC to vote Tuesday on ‘net neutrality’ rules

By doris | Published: December 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday on a set of regulations designed to ensure that internet providers grant everyone equal access to the Web. The “net neutrality” rules, proposed by the Obama administration, would be the government’s biggest foray yet into one of the Web’s fiercest [...]

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Find your missing money — cheaply and easily

By doris | Published: October 5, 2010

Full Story at It has a whiff of buried treasure about it: Somewhere out there are billions of dollars in unclaimed funds just waiting to be unearthed. And part of that money might be yours. State treasuries and other agencies are holding some $32.8 billion in unclaimed assets, including bank accounts, pensions, savings bonds, CDs, [...]

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States working harder to collect online sales taxes

By doris | Published: September 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com It’s too early to know exactly how much the Nebraska chapter of the March of Dimes raised this week at its annual Signature Chefs Auction in Omaha, but odds are that more than 10 percent of the charity’s proceeds are going straight to the tax man. That’s because the March of [...]

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Post office proposes 2-cent rate hike

By doris | Published: July 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Buy those Forever stamps now. The cost of mailing a letter is going up again. Fighting to survive a deepening financial crisis, the Postal Service said Tuesday it wants to increase the price of first-class stamps by 2 cents — to 46 cents — starting in January. Other postage [...]

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Walmart.com boss sets his sights on Amazon

By doris | Published: December 18, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com With a week to go before Christmas, division CEO Raul Vazquez says Walmart.com’s holiday sales are growing two or three times faster than Web sales overall. At that pace — and with 22 percent growth so far this year — the world’s largest retailer is coming closer to dominating the Web [...]

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Concessions From Google on Digital Books

By doris | Published: November 15, 2009

Full Story at  CBS News.com (AP) Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators. The offer comes two months after the U.S. Justice Department balked at Google’s original agreement with authors [...]

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Google to buy mobile ad provider

By doris | Published: November 10, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said Monday that it plans to pay $750 million in stock for AdMob, a company that provides display advertising technology for mobile Internet sites. The search giant said the acquisition will help the company’s advertising partners improve how they target mobile Web users, as well as [...]

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Windows 7 student upgrade hell

By doris | Published: October 25, 2009

Full Story at brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com College students who took advantage of a “deal too sweet to pass up” have run into a bit of trouble. The $29 electronic version of Windows 7 Home Edition sold for Microsoft (MSFT) through Digital River (DRIV) doesn’t seem to install properly on some 32-bit Vista machines. Apparently the download files [...]

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