It was just the kind of information that could make you a million. But you couldn’t find it on Facebook or, for that matter, anywhere else on the Internet. In mid-May, as the social-networking company prepared for a public sale of its stock, an analyst at Morgan Stanley began advising clients orally that Facebook profits would probably be lower than previously estimated. Read full article > >

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Investors sue Facebook, advisers as scrutiny of IPO hype intensifies

Internet giant Google did not infringe patents belonging to software developer Oracle, a court in California has ruled.

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Jury backs Google in Oracle fight

On Monday night, the Washington Times announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the work of longtime columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, following allegations that he’d lifted material from other sources on the Internet. Ed Kelley, the paper’s top editor, said that the allegations about de Borchgrave’s work “ require attention .” Read full article > >

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Washington Times takes de Borchgrave’s recent columns offline

BEIJING — The plight of 28 Chinese fishermen, who were kidnapped, robbed, stripped and held for 13 days by North Koreans, has inflamed Chinese public opinion, with many Internet users taking to microblogging sites to question the Beijing government’s close relationship with its reclusive ally in Pyongyang. Read full article > >

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Kidnapped fishermen’s case angers Chinese public

All sorts of private Internet communications were casually scooped up as Google Street View cars photographed the world’s streets.

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Google Privacy Inquiries Get Little Cooperation

The RAC has reported an increase in the number of people accessing the internet behind the wheel using their mobile phones.

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VIDEO: Rise in drivers using mobiles

Beats Internet Explorer for first time.

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Chrome Is Most-Used Browser

US internet company Yahoo says it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in China’s biggest internet company Alibaba Group.

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Yahoo agrees $7.1bn Alibaba deal

Chinese Internet company will pay $7B in deal.

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Yahoo Sells Back Stake in Alibaba

Yahoo and China's Alibaba Group have agreed to a $7.1 billion deal in which the Hangzhou-based internet behemoth buys back half of Yahoo's 40% stake in the company.

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How have other high-flying internet stocks performed?

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Facebook: How the others fared

In the late 1990s, the craze for initial public offerings was hailed as the dawn of a new age. The Internet was replacing manufacturing. Who needed a factory floor when you could point and click? Facebook’s Friday IPO, which opened with a staggering $104 billion valuation for the company, hasn’t transported us back to the bubble years of the 1990s. But, like that time, today’s Facebook frenzy is about what our society values. When Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell on Friday, his company’s $38 share price wasn’t rooted solely in the economics of the social networking giant. What the financial analysts are selling isn’t just the initial public offering of a company that Zuckerberg started in his dorm room at Harvard eight years ago. They are selling an image of the United States. Read full article > >

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The $104 billion question: What does Facebook’s value say about ours?

Shares in internet giant Yahoo rise 5% on reports that it is close to selling its valuable stake in Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce company.

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Yahoo jumps on Alibaba deal talk

Internet company to begin trading Friday.

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Facebook Sets IPO Shares at $38

The Pentagon is expanding and making permanent a trial program that teams the government with Internet carriers to protect defense firms’ computer networks against massive data theft by foreign adversaries. Read full article > >

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Pentagon to expand cybersecurity program for defense contractors