Who should own the last mile of fiber to your place? It’s been the telcos for years, but what if it were the cities or even you who owned that important bit of connectivity?

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Vicious and public proxy fight for control of Yahoo ended with the company and Carl Icahn agreeing on nominal changes to Yahoo’s board.

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Remember how Ach-moo-dent-in-jab told us there were no homosexuals in Iran? He could be right about that, considering anybody who reveals himself is hanged. Here’s another offense that carries the death penalty in Iran: blogging.

Well, blogging about the wrong things, anyway. This article in the Jerusulem Post is a little contradictory about which offenses carry the death penalty–in the first line you get it for insulting Islam or drug trafficking; later Kurds are killed for spying and separatist propadanda.

Nonetheless, a new law has been passed there to make sure the death penalty is extended to crimes committed online, presumably like insulting Islam via a blog or opening up an online head shop. Or just being gay online, one might suppose. Though the Internet is global, one assumes punishment is a local affair–if not, maybe Perez Hilton should be our next ambassador.

There won’t be a second look at a settlement ConnectU’s founders agreed to despite claims of new evidence against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.

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Meanwhile, Google wants people to report suspicious links to them manually.

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The big money speculators hovering over Carl Icahn’s pending proxy fight with Yahoo could have other companies in their sights.

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eBay’s $310 million acquisition of ticket reselling site StubHub presents the potential of additional expenses, as the City of Chicago demanded payment of amusement taxes on tickets sold for Chicago events.

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Paul McGuinness stumbled into the find of a lifetime in discovering U2 and becoming the megastar band’s manager. He now he’s raging about the commoditization of music and blaming Internet service providers for it. We chuckle after the jump.

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Any potential broadening of an advertising pact with Google likely posed a threat of pervasive antitrust investigations by the Department of Justice.

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Multiple listings services and their handling by realtors led the Department of Justice to challenge the National Association of Realtors, leading to a settlement after nearly 4 years of legal back-and-forth.

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