www.nytimes.com - nytimes.com — Amazon.comhas filed a lawsuit challenging New York State’s new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipmentsto state residents. The lawsuit raises questions over whether vendorswho are not physically prese... (Read More)

www.cnn.com - (CNN) -- Iran launched only one missile on Thursday, not a new full round of tests, a senior U.S. military source told CNN, citing the latest U.S. intelligence assessments. Seven short- to medium-range missiles were fired on Wednesday, the U.S. belie... (Read More)

freepress.net - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s acquisition of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. may be cleared by federal regulators this month, and it can't happen fast enough for XM. As the regulatory review drags on, the company is struggling to add enough n... (Read More)

freepress.net - Google and Yahoo say there are plenty of reasons why their recently announced plan to work together on Internet-search advertising should pass muster with regulators. For starters, it's not a merger and it covers only a small part of Yahoo's search b... (Read More)

freepress.net - A new study from the Pew Internet Project has found that while overall broadband adoption is up, the portion of African Americans with high-speed Internet access showed only modest growth in the past year, while among lower-income households it actua... (Read More)

freepress.net - VoIP provider Skype on Tuesday named former Motorola executive Scott Durchslag as its new chief operating officer. Durchslag will assume the role effective immediately, and will report to Skype president Josh Silverman. Durchslag joined Motorola in... (Read More)

freepress.net - It’s not sunny every day and money doesn’t sprout from trees in Kutztown, Pa., but for cable and Internet fiends, it may be considered paradise. That’s because Kutztown’s fiber-optic television, phone and Internet infrastructure is a decade ... (Read More)

freepress.net - The Internet is the greatest technical development of the 20th century, and its open competition model has been the envy of other market sectors. Internet advances are being crushed by monopolistic carriers who are more concerned with censoring conte... (Read More)

freepress.net - On the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," claiming that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" ... (Read More)

freepress.net - The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper's editor said Wednesday. The decline in advertising, fueled by a weak real est... (Read More)