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  Swedish e-commerce startup's execs linked to NYC sex crime

  Two Swedish nationals with the same names as top executives of e-commerce startup Klarna were arrested on Saturday in New York and charged with criminal sexual abuse.

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 09 February, 2012 08:51

  Tags: legal, Klarna, internet, e-commerce, Criminal

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  Online shoppers push 2011 holiday spending up 14%

  A lot of Americans took their holiday shopping online last year, which helped push e-commerce spending up 14% in the last quarter.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 February, 2012 08:33

  Tags: internet, e-commerce, ComScore

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  Facebook site, mobile app hit by slowdown

  Facebook users today are complaining that the social network and its mobile app are running very slowly.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 08 February, 2012 05:47

  Tags: Web 2.0 and Web Apps, twitter, internet, Facebook, e-commerce, e-business

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  Groups: Congress should scrap SOPA, PIPA and start over

  The U.S. Congress should scrap two controversial copyright enforcement bills and start over with attempts to target foreign websites accused of infringement and counterfeiting, more than 70 groups have said.

  By Grant Gross | 08 February, 2012 04:02

  Tags: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, search engines, Public Knowledge, Patrick Leahy, Motion Picture Association of America, legislation, legal, Lamar Smith, Internet service providers, internet, intellectual property, Human Rights Watch, government, Fight for the Future, e-commerce, copyright, Consumers Union, American Library Association, advertising

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  Who really was behind the SOPA protests?

  Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have trumpeted the grassroots nature of the protests.

  By Grant Gross | 04 February, 2012 04:54

  Tags: U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Tiffiniy Cheng, TechDirt, search engines, Rupert Murdoch, Public Knowledge, OpenCongress.org, mozilla, Motion Picture Association of America, Mark Stanley, legislation, legal, Jimmy Wales, Internet service providers, internet, intellectual property, Harold Feld, government, Google, Free Software Foundation, Fight for the Future, Erik Martin, Electronic Frontier Foundation, e-commerce, Demand Progress, David Segal, copyright, Chris Dodd, Center for Democracy and Technology, Barack Obama, amazon.com, advertising

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  EBay defends online ticket resales

  EBay has defended its policies on the reselling of event tickets on its site following the mass posting of AC/DC tickets on its site just hours after the tickets went on sale, and promptly sold out, yesterday.

  By Tim Lohman | 26 May, 2009 15:46

  Tags: acdc, ebay, e-commerce, music, scalping, Ticketek

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  Ticketek Thunderstruck by AC/DC ticket sales demand

  Online ticket sales site Ticketek was this morning paralysed by demand for tickets to AC/DC’s Black Ice Australian tour, which went on sale this morning at 9am.

  By Tim Lohman | 25 May, 2009 10:42

  Tags: ac/dc, e-commerce, infrastructure management, Ticketek, twitter

• New obscenity charges raise questions in Internet Age

  A long-standing court test using community standards to determine whether adult content is criminally obscene has been a potential problem area for the US pornography industry. But a debate that's been largely abstract for years has recently changed as the US Department of Justice successfully prosecuted two Web site operators for obscenity.

  By Grant Gross | 10 October, 2008 09:19

  Tags: e-commerce, government regulation

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  Minding Online Store a Case of 'Not My Job'

  Last month, a federal judge ruled that eBay had fulfilled its obligations to investigate and control users who were trying to use its Web site to sell counterfeit Tiffany goods -- a decision that put the onus on Tiffany to monitor eBay's site itself.

  By Linda Rosencrance | 21 August, 2008 12:09

  Tags: ebay, e-commerce

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