Over the past year, the FCC has begun cracking down on the wireless industry by opening up several inquiries, ranging from wireless billing… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing Google’s $750 million acquisition of mobile-advertising company AdMob, but there’s no indication o… Read more »
On the same day as an FTC discussion on online privacy, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is rolling out a tool that gives users of its sites the option to… Read more »
By John Plunkett: Global Radio has been censured by media regulator Ofcom for “gratuitous” plugging of Apple’s iTunes on its Sunday afternoo… Read more »
The FTC recently gave the video game industry the equivalent of a gold star in terms of how it regulates the way games are sold and advertis… Read more »
Harbinger Capital Partners systematically has cut back its stake in the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) by more than a third –34 percent to… Read more »
The effort to win regulatory approval for Comcast’s acquisition of 51 percent of NBCU kicked into gear with the deal’s announcement, startin… Read more »
Europe’s information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding is moving on from the portfolio after five years, instead shifting to run… Read more »
The European Commission is not taking any action against Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and has stopped investigating the chipmaker after four lookin… Read more »
It’s not exactly the announcement everybody is waiting for, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) officials are trumpeting that… Read more »
Europeans should only lose their internet connection after a “a prior, fair and impartial procedure”, according to new legislation passed in… Read more »
Harbinger Capital Partners continues to slice its stake of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). Co., selling its second batch of stock in two mon… Read more »
The FCC unanimously voted to impose a “shot clock” for wireless tower applications to speed up the time it takes to install new cell phone n… Read more »
The EU has concluded an 18-month long investigation into 301 websites selling ringtones and wallpapers, which has resulted in Italian author… Read more »
Well, this certainly looks like a prelude to those independently-funded news consortia (IFNCs) … Ofcom is recommending the government rela… Read more »
The Obama administration execs stopping by the Bloomberg Washington Summit included Aneesh Chopra, the top geek in an administration that p… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) barely made its court-imposed deadline to submit its amended books settlement proposal, which the company hopes will eas… Read more »
In the latest development in a long-running dispute between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the UK ad industry, the search giant has agreed to contr… Read more »
Remember when the European Commission threatened the UK with legal action over its online privacy and data protection laws in April? The EC… Read more »
*Google* filed a response to the FCC’s formal inquiry into its voice-calling service today, admitting that it did “restrict calls” to specif… Read more »
It’s the end of an era for Beliefnet: Steve Waldman, who cofounded the multifaith site in 1999 and stayed as president and editor-in-chief w… Read more »
Lord Mandelson’s three-strikes proposal may have gobbled all the headlines. But a parallel package published Wednesday, aimed at liberalisin… Read more »
The EU Parliament has controversially dropped plans to force ISPs and content owners across the continent to seek a court ruling before disc… Read more »
The FCC is currently mulling a new broadband plan that would potentially regulate how operators manage traffic running over both their wired… Read more »
The race is on to digitise Europe’s out-of-print books and EC media commissioner Viviane Reding says Europe can beat Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in… Read more »
In a sign of how much the big ad agencies want an alternative to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), all four major ad holding companies, along with the Am… Read more »
The UK Competition Commission has already ruled provisionally that the proposed merger of Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) and Ticketmaster would hur… Read more »
The Interactive Advertising Bureau is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its recently revised guidelines governing dealings… Read more »
Smartphones, which are constantly syncing email, contacts and calendar information to the cloud, are an increasing burden on wireless networ… Read more »
AT&T (NYSE: T) is still waiting on FCC approval for its acquisition of Centennial Communications, but today it received clearance from the D… Read more »
Looks like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can knock one of its three antitrust inquiries off its list. Responding to this morning’s announcement that A… Read more »
At CTIA’s Wireless I.T. and Entertainment show last week, 15,000 people from the industry gathered in San Diego. While many people said the… Read more »
Arthur Levinson is leaving the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) board, the second person to serve on both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google boards to qui… Read more »
The FCC is expected to look into how Google (NSDQ: GOOG) operates its voice-calling service and whether it elects to restrict some calls, re… Read more »
While the general observation by everyone is that this year’s CTIA I.T. & Entertainment show is small, it’s not because there isn’t dramatic… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission is trying to calm some fears in the wake of its revisions to the FTC Act of 1980, amended to include bloggers i… Read more »
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski took the stage at CTIA this morning to help sell his plan for mobile broadband, amid a period of increasing… Read more »
It appears increasingly likely that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will finally settle its long-standing litigation with the European Commission. Th… Read more »
The Federal Trade Commission has revised its guidelines governing endorsements in the age of blogging and the rise of celebrities on Twitter… Read more »
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has ordered Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) to remove certain provisions from its license agreements with Japanese han… Read more »
