internet companies

Italy is rightly famous for many things — great food, glorious history, boring soccer — but in the past few years it’s also developed a reputation for antagonizing the world’s biggest Internet companies.

Legal actions targeted at the likes of Google and Facebook have created...

In the US, for the most part, we have legal safe harbors that enforce (usually) common sense points about liability into law.

The basic idea is that a third party service provider or tool should not be held liable for what users do with those tools.

Unfortunately, there are some problems with how this has been interpreted in the US at times, but at least the basics of reasonable safe harbors are there.

And this is important.

Tech Czar: "Its sad to see one of the earliest Internet companies lose the integral piece that made them famous, but it was even harder to see Yahoo turn into “altavista”.

Yahoo has been in a state of flux, with the only constant being their decreased market share."

Media companies facing threats to their business models from Internet companies might want to stand up and defend themselves by investing in better technology, says an Oracle exec.

Members of AAI suggest regulators reshape the alliance between the two Internet companies to foster its benefits to consumers, while also avoiding its anticompetitive risks.