The deal, which would unite two of the nation's largest cable and broadband providers, has raised concerns that these bigger players would have the heft to strong-arm Internet content companies into paying for the right to reach customers.
The European Court of Justice this morning ruled that content owners can not strong-arm Internet service providers (ISPs) into filtering out copyright-infringing content.
When model Chrissy Teigen shared a video Thursday showing a winged creature crawling on her arm, the Internet went nuts.
Prior to that, the company had raised a $19 million round of funding from investors that included 5CCG / Sallfort Privatbank and NTT DoCoMo venture arm Mobile Internet Capital.
The company, which is the online music arm of internet giant Tencent, has priced its 82 million American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) at $13 each, which is the bottom of a previously expected range of $13 to $15.
"We will provide support on operations, hiring, strategy and advertising, to make Airbnb's entry and operations in India as effective as possible," Satyan Gajwani, managing director of Times of India's digital arm Times Internet, told none other than Economic Times.
The album cover painting is filled with not quite random and often ominous words, among them fear, danger, security, TV, God, beef, armed, poor, Internet, drugs and donut.
During the past decade, people have routinely shown up at doctors' offices armed with Internet printouts, or displayed a suspicion of "mainstream medicine" fed by alternative practitioners and by dissatisfaction with managed care.
Armed with Internet search engines and e-mail lists of their own, they are mapping Web sites and alerting each other about the form letters appearing in their mailboxes.
The politics of arming the Internet just went up a notch.
