Reuters – Sony Corp will re-enter Japan’s electronic book market and open an online bookstore offering 20,000 titles, almost all in Japanese, in time for the year-end shopping rush, it said on Thursday.
AFP – A group of “crush fetishists” has caused an online storm in China after uploading graphic videos showing attractive young Chinese women crushing small rabbits.
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Reuters – Online spending this holiday is now expected to rise by 11 percent over last year, comScore said on Tuesday, marking the second time the analytics firm has raised its closely watched view.
Reuters – The Beatles sold more than two million individual songs and more than 450,000 albums worldwide in their first week of release on Apple’s iTunes store, Apple said on Tuesday.
AFP – Online social networking game king Zynga on Tuesday said a settlement was reached with a rival accused of stealing its secrets and coaxing employees to betrayal.
PC World – Tim Berners-Lee, credited with creating the Web, warns that social-networking sites, efforts to prioritize Web traffic and closed systems such as iTunes threaten the Web’s capability to promote free speech and open doors to new scientific discoveries, in an essay published in Scientific American.
PC World – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should investigate the online marketing of health-related products for widespread unfair and deceptive practices, including tracking of Web users’ medical conditions, four privacy groups said Tuesday in a complaint to the agency.
AFP – The Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and over two million individual songs in the week since their music appeared on Apple’s iTunes, Billboard said Tuesday.