Rumors of a $399 PC that can run Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard began circulating, but we’ll be surprised to see the Apple clone business being reprised.

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Richard Brodsky wants regulations to protect consumers from online companies’ usage of people’s personal information without consent. Ad industry groups and several big names on the Internet lashed out at him in a letter.

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Spending on search marketing rises as it pulls money away from other ad initiatives, raising the question of how long SEM will be able to keep growing when considering that dependency.

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Buying DoubleClick for $3.24 billion is going to look like a beads-for-Manhattan deal in a few years.

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It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook will pay off ConnectU’s creators to make a lawsuit over Facebook’s genesis go away.

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Chris Clark’s $20 per year registration fee for pizza.com turned into a windfall after an auction buyer bid $2.6 million for the domain.

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Everything you think you know about Google News is, um, possibly wrong, but some of it could be right.

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Fears of Internet piracy could persuade writers to cease creating new works, one group claims. We have our own claim, and it rhymes with full snit.

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The 404 page can be more than a bit of blank space vomited back at the browser. It’s an opportunity to brand, and to link people to existing content on a website.

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