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Reuters – Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz said the company would keep modernizing its online properties through the summer of 2011 as it strives to increase the time people spend on its sites.

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AFP – Facebook overhauled its privacy controls on Wednesday to fend off mounting criticism that it is betraying the trust that has made it the world’s biggest social network.

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AP – Yahoo Inc. is leaning on one of the Internet’s cool kids in an effort to be more chic.

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Reuters – Facebook announced efforts to better guard the privacy of its more than 400 million users, addressing mounting pressure on the world’s most popular online social network to protect personal data exchanged on its site.

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Reuters – A key senator who oversees antitrust issues said on Wednesday that he wants Comcast Corp to divest online video site Hulu.com should its plan to buy a controlling interest in NBC Universal win regulatory approval.

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PC World – A survey conducted for the FCC from April 19 to May 2, 2010, interviewed 3,005 American adults to explore how customers feel about mobile service and broadband billing practices. The results of the study illustrate that a large percentage of mobile phone customers have experienced sticker shock from a mobile service bill at some point, and are utterly confused by the carrier early termination fees (ETFs).

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PC World – Yahoo is working on many fronts to pump up users’ engagement with its Web sites and communication services, including significant improvements to Yahoo Mail, CEO Carol Bartz said Wednesday.

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AP – Want to get Internet video to your TV? There are lots of options, but here’s a pretty elegant one: new laptops that can send whatever is on their screens wirelessly to the TV.

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Reuters – Three lawmakers want Google Inc to tell them how much personal data the Internet search engine and advertising company gathered as part of its project to photograph streets across the country and how it plans to use that information.

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AFP – Yahoo! said Wednesday that online social games from Zynga, creator of “FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars,” are coming to Yahoo! sites.

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PC World – Facebook deserves plenty of blame for messing too much with its privacy settings, but no amount of fixing will stop people from embarrassing themselves on the Internet.

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AP – Visitors to the website of the planned World Trade Center memorial can explore a 3-D model of it, thanks to a partnership between the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum and Google Earth.

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AFP – The US Justice Department is examining Apple’s tactics in the market for digital music in a preliminary antitrust inquiry, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

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Ben Patterson – Is Apple using its online music market-share muscle to keep the big music labels in line, especially when it comes to exclusive promotions on rival Amazon? The Justice Department is in the “early stages” of “examining” that very question, according to the New York Times.

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AFP – Amnesty International criticised on Wednesday Egypt’s use of a defamation law to pursue three activists for slander and blackmail after they allegedly accused a judge of plagiarism.

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Appolicious – The Justice Department is looking into Apple’s sales tactics on iTunes, making this the top story in today’s App Industry Roundup. Meanwhile, Wired’s digital magazine launches and guess what, it includes Adobe software. And perhaps Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should change outfits instead of management talent.

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PC World – The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly in the early stages of an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s digital retail music business. The Justice Department’s inquiry has “revolved broadly around the dynamics of selling music online,” according to The New York Times

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AP – Pakistan will restore access to YouTube but will block videos offensive to Muslims that are posted on the video-sharing site, the government said Wednesday.

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Reuters – Comcast Corp’s top financial executive said on Wednesday that U.S. regulators’ plans to tighten control over the broadband market could curb private investment in the sector.

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AP – Microsoft Corp. is slowly beefing up a Web site aimed at helping people monitor their home energy use and pinpoint ways to cut costs.

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PC World – Google has released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service, which Web sites can use to collect data about their visitors.

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PC Magazine – Tech blogger Joe Damato on Tuesday issued a warning about an unsafe Web page from American Express.

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AP – Google has pulled back another curtain and revealed the size of its lucrative Internet ad network in the U.S. It spans more than 1.5 million advertisers and websites.

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AP – AT&T’s new digital home phone service failed across the country Tuesday, illustrating continuing reliability issues with Internet-based phone service.

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AFP – Ireland’s main broadband supplier said Tuesday it had launched a crackdown on Internet piracy that could see customers being cut off if they share copyrighted music online illegally.

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AP – Rivals’ shuttered rental stores and its new application for streaming-enabled mobile devices puts Netflix Inc. in “the sweet spot of its growth phase,” an analyst said Tuesday, raising his price target and profit estimates for the online movie rental company.

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AP – Forbes Media is buying the online news startup True/Slant.

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Reuters – Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives, stung by criticism that their party lacks new ideas, launched an online initiative on Tuesday to hear suggestions and policy proposals directly from Americans.

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AFP – France and the Netherlands have joined forces to develop an international code of conduct against Internet censorship, the Dutch foreign ministry said Tuesday.

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PC World – Google’s search service and search advertising products generated an estimated US$54 billion for U.S. businesses, Web site publishers and nonprofit groups in 2009, according to a study the company has released.

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Reuters – Google TV, a service that will bring the Web to television screens, is likely to create more headaches for broadcast and cable executives already concerned with being sidelined by free online video shows on computers.

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Reuters – Top Democratic lawmakers said on Monday they will hold a series of meetings starting in June to discuss proposals to revamp the U.S. communications law as regulators set a course on broadband oversight.

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Reuters – Yahoo Inc and Nokia Oyj said they would team up to boost their mobile Internet offerings, seeking to regain market share lost to rivals like Apple Inc and Google Inc.

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AP – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched a new website and has starting blogging in an attempt to expand his online presence.

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Reuters – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the Internet social network will roll out new privacy settings for its more than 400 million users, amid growing concerns that the company is pushing users to make more of their personal data public.

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NewsFactor – Twitter has officially banned third-party ad networks from its micro-blogging platform. The decision could have dire implications for advertising startups that center their strategy on Twitter ads.

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Christopher Null – Bargain hunters got a big bonus over the weekend when 6pm.com, part of the Zappos.com shoe-centric empire (which is now part of Amazon.com), goofed up on its online pricing.6pm.com is already a discount-oriented website, but on May 21, those discounts got bigger when a bug capped most products’ prices at $49.95 — lopping off a huge amount of cash from the price tag. (Lower prices remained unchanged.) Not too shabby for a site where a handbag can run $300 or more. Users noticed and started buying.

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AP – iTunes’ top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending May 24, 2010:

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AFP – The Times and Sunday Times on Tuesday unveiled new-look websites as they prepare to become the first UK national newspapers to charge online readers for content.

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PC Magazine – Google on Tuesday unveiled the revenue shares for its AdSense products, revealing that AdSense for content publishers take home 68 percent of revenue, while AdSense for search participants earn 51 percent of earned revenue.

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AP – Sex and scandal are again in South Carolina’s political air.

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PC World – Users who have bought Nokia’s flagship smartphone, the Maemo-based N900, won’t be able to upgrade the device to MeeGo, Nokia said in a blog post on Tuesday.

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PC World – Twitter is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization and integrity of the micro-blogging service.

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Macworld.com – Steve Jobs promises big things for WWDC; we visit statistics both surprising and, eh, not so much; and one prominent Mac blogger may finally be forced to choose between two things he loves. It’s the remainders for Monday May 24, 2010.

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AFP – A former contract linguist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation was sentenced to 20 months in prison Monday for leaking classified documents to an Internet blogger, the Justice Department said.

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Reuters – Top Democratic lawmakers said on Monday they will hold a series of meetings starting in June to discuss proposals to revamp the U.S. communications law as regulators set a course on broadband oversight.

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AP – A political blogger claimed Monday that he had an inappropriate physical relationship with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, a tea party favorite who called the allegations a “disgraceful smear.”

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AP – Nokia Corp. will run mapping and navigation services for Yahoo Inc. in an acknowledgement that the slumping Internet company hasn’t kept up with rival Google Inc. in the increasingly important area of location services.

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Appolicious – Facebook put itself in a position to “take over the Web” with its Graph API, and it’s looking to do the same on a mobile level. At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco last week, Facebook revealed its plans to unleash the Graph API on Android developers, making it possible to have deep-linking for Facebook within Android apps.

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AFP – Nokia will supply maps and navigation services to Yahoo! and the Web company will provide email and chat to the world’s top mobile phone maker under a partnership announced on Monday.

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