UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations launched a new Web site powered by Google and network equipment maker Cisco on Thursday that will show how and where the world is succeeding or failing in meeting the Millennium Development Goals on ending poverty.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc has signed on MySpace, the world's largest social network, to its platform allowing outside software developers to write programs for social Web sites, the companies said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet advertisers have fallen short of promised self-regulation in respecting Internet users' privacy, a Federal Trade Commission official said on Thursday, even as one firm, Tacoda, said it decided to refrain from collecting some sensitive information.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust authorities are reviewing Google Inc's purchase of advertising company DoubleClick as quickly as possible, Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz said on Thursday.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Tim Sykes made and lost a small fortune fast. Now he plans to earn it all back and let average Americans follow him on the road to riches, one trade at a time.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court has banned a Web site sympathetic to pedophiles from showing photographs of child members of the royal family, including the three-year-old heiress to the throne Princess Amalia.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - McClatchy Co's Sacramento Bee newspaper will stop charging $499 a year for its Capitol Alert Web site, which provides political news from California's capital, and support it with advertising instead.
BOSTON (Reuters) - IBM, the world's largest technology services company, said on Thursday it will spend a record $1.5 billion next year to develop and market security products.
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone Group launched its mobile music service in Britain on Thursday to allow users to download and share unlimited tracks, one week before the long-awaited UK iPhone debut from Apple.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine privacy and consumer organizations asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to create a "do not track" list for Internet users who don't want their online activities tracked, stored and used by advertising networks.
