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Reuters – The Council of Europe plans to establish an Internet user charter to guarantee the rights of consumers in an era of increasing government attempts to seize control of the Web, its deputy secretary general said on Tuesday.

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Reuters – Internet activists accused governments of making it difficult for users of the Web, rights campaigners and private businesses to carry out their work through state attempts to seize control of the Web.

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AP – iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending Sept. 26, 2011:

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Appolicious – That phantom Facebook iPad app is on its way to the iTunes App Store, right alongside the release of the iPhone 5.

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Mashable – There’s a reason cyberbullying prevention supporters range from Justin Bieber to Barack Obama: It’s a problem that directly affects more than half of American youth.
An Associated Press – MTV poll released Tuesday asked 1,355 youth between the ages of 14 and 24 about the role online abuse plays in their lives. Fifty-six percent responded they have been the target of some type of online harassment.

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Mashable – Once upon a time, before Facebook and Twitter, there was a web service called Geocities.
Long a synonym for ugly websites with obnoxious ads, the web hosting service was shut down (except in Japan, where it’s still active) in 2009. But its closure did bring a tear to the eye of many Internet veterans who remember that Geocities did host some very interesting sites.

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AP – The killing of a Mexican woman purportedly in retaliation for her postings on an anti-crime website has left stunned chat users and employees at the newspaper where she worked wondering who can still be safe in the violent border city of Nuevo Laredo.

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Reuters – Mobile operating systems developed by Asia’s top technology firms will at best only chip away market share from dominant leaders Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.

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Reuters – Online video rental company Netflix Inc said it won pay TV rights to Dreamworks Animation movies starting in 2013, the first time a major Hollywood studio has chosen an Internet streaming player over a traditional cable channel.

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Reuters – New York State Senator Jeffrey Klein introduced a new “cyber-bullying” bill on Monday, saying outdated pre-digital harassment laws fail to punish bullies who use the Internet and smartphones to torment others.

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Reuters – Internet activists will this week make an 11th-hour attempt to stop governments seizing more control of the Web that has fueled Arab revolutions, enabled mass leaks of U.S. diplomatic cables and allowed online piracy to thrive.

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AP – Netflix unveiled a coming attraction its disillusioned subscribers might like: the Internet video rights to films and television specials from DreamWorks Animation.

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Mashable – Scott Steinberg is the author of the new book Music Games Rock (100% free to download online). He is a noted technology expert, the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent keynote speaker and media analyst for ABC, CBS and CNN. A celebrated author and entrepreneur, he also hosts video series Gear Up and Game Theory.

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AP – Federal authorities say they are returning $55 million to people ripped off by an Internet-based Ponzi scam.

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Mashable – Doug Edwards’ greatest claim to fame is that he was Google employee number 59, and the author of a memoir called I’m Feeling Lucky. He retired from the Silicon Valley search giant in 2005, shortly after its IPO, with a significant amount of stock. He is now, as he puts it, “unemployed by choice.”
As of Monday, however, Edwards has a new title: the guy who asked President Barack Obama in a public forum to raise taxes on millionaires like himself. “My question is would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards said at Monday’s LinkedIn Town Hall. “I would like very much for our country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants, infrastructure, job training–programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am. It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of tax cuts that have been benefiting so much of us for so long.”

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Reuters – Blogging platform Tumblr raised $85 million in a venture capital funding round led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, plus the Chernin Group and Sir Richard Branson.

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Reuters – EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether a group of banks, including Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Spain’s BBVA, is blocking new players from entering the European online payments market.

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Mashable – Microblogging platform Tumblr has secured $85 million in funding, the company announced Monday, adding that it has seen its pageviews increase greatly this year.
Aside from the funding round led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, the company shared impressive new stats: Tumblr’s pageviews per month this year have gone from 2 billion to 13 billion; mobile pageviews have increased 17 times during the same period, and the 30 million blogs on Tumblr now generate more than 40 million posts per day.

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AP – In the age of instant tweets and impulsive Facebook posts, some companies are still trying to figure out how they can limit what their employees say about work online without running afoul of the law.

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Reuters – Netflix Inc has won a deal to pipe Dreamworks Animation movies starting in 2013, the first time a major Hollywood studio has chosen Internet streaming over traditional pay TV, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

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Reuters – Alibaba.com may spin off and publicly list its Internet application services provider HiChina, the company said on Monday.

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Staying Open to Opportunity New York Times I was interested in the Internet, so next I joined Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch as vice president of e-commerce. I was hired to build a business to sell concert memorabilia on the site, but the venture wasn't successful. IAC took over the company and … and more »

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Mashable – The Facebook redesign news kicked this week’s features roundup into full-throttle. For instance, press “command F” and search “Facebook”. Go ahead, try it. The word comes up 31 times on this page alone.
Therefore, the theme of this week’s roundup is: We-Pretty-Much-Covered-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Facebook-Redesign. In other news, we reviewed the Google Wallet and analyzed Netflix’s recent business maneuvers. Regardless, this week might very well set a record — are you ready to get crackin’ on Mashable’s 62 feature stories from the past week? We thought so.

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AP – Groupon Inc. chopped its stated revenue by more than half in an updated SEC filing Friday as it corrected the way it accounts for money it receives selling coupons. The online deal site also said that its chief operating officer, Margo Georgiadis, has gone back to Google, where she worked before joining Groupon in May.

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Reuters – Yahoo Inc has received inquiries from multiple parties about “potential options,” but the struggling Web company expects to take months to decide its future, the company’s co-founders and chairman said in a letter to employees on Friday.

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Reuters – Blockbuster unveiled a video streaming service limited to Dish Network satellite subscribers, a move to better compete with movie rental giant Netflix and rival cable and satellite TV providers.

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Reuters – Mexico’s Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is set to launch an online video and live television rental service using a technology that allows streaming with a very low broadband speed.

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AP – Nevada members of Congress say they’re shedding campaign contributions they received from an online poker site that’s accused of bilking customers.

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Appolicious – In an effort to further bring radio into the 21st century, web-based personalized radio provider Stitcher also available for iPhone) has secured $10 million in Series C funding, thanks to New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital, New Atlantic Ventures and others. The company has now gathered a total investment of $18.7 million in three rounds of funding.

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NewsFactor – Yahoo and Facebook have struck a content deal that will see Yahoo News in the U.S. and IntoNow from Yahoo integrated with Facebook. Yahoo News is the leading online news destination on the web with more than 80 million unique visitors a month. IntoNow is a mobile app that lets people discover and discuss TV shows.

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Reuters – Long-delayed U.S. Internet rules that tackle the controversial issue of balancing consumer and content provider interests against those who sell access to the Web will take effect November 20.

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Reuters – The Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules were made official on Friday morning, with their publication in the Federal Register.

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AP – Amazon.com Inc. sent out invitations Friday to a press conference it will hold Wednesday in New York. The online retailer didn’t divulge details, but it is expected to be an announcement for a long-rumored tablet device.

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Mashable – The revised Net neutrality rules that the FCC approved in December became official on Friday when they entered the Federal Register. They will take effect on November 20.
Net neutrality advocates have long lobbied for laws that prevent Internet providers from blocking competitive content, charging for faster connections to certain sites, and a slew of other tactics that would destroy the “open web.” Meanwhile, broadband and wireless providers have argued that it’s government regulation — not Internet provider discrimination — that threatens the open web.

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Mashable – Elizabeth Shaw is an emerging media analyst at Forrester Research, serving interactive marketing professionals. Follow her on twitter @shaw_smith2.

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Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co named former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman its president and CEO, replacing the harshly criticized Leo Apotheker in a bid to restore investor confidence in the iconic Silicon Valley company.

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Reuters – Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc won another round in the patent fight over its “one-click” purchasing system as an appeals court ruled on Friday that it did not infringe technology patented by Cordance Corp.

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Mashable – The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus’ Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organization’s goals.
Amidst the Facebook-centric society in which we now seem to live, it’s important to remember that groups of people around the world use social networks differently. We’ve taken a look at the social media breakdown in 10 countries — how they’re engaging with social networks, blogs and Internet culture.

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Mashable – Shares of Hewlett-Packard are taking a beating Friday as investors express skepticism that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman can right the ship.
HP’s stock price closed at 22.86 on Thursday, just before Whitman was appointed as the company’s new CEO. Shares of HP were trading at 21.96 as of 11:02 a.m. ET though, a drop of more than 3.5% (the stock is slowly recovering). It’s even worse if you consider that HP’s stock price hit 24.90 on Wednesday, not long after the news leaked that Leo Apotheker was out as CEO.

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AP – Hewlett-Packard has performed another extreme act of corporate remodeling, firing its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replacing him with billionaire businesswoman and political aspirant Meg Whitman. Yet it’s done little to convince investors that the company has its house in order.

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Reuters – Missteps by Netflix Inc have opened the door to competitors seeking to grab disgruntled customers who are looking for new options for video rentals and instant online streaming.

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AP – WHAT FACEBOOK IS DOING: As it grows, the company is trying to evolve from an Internet hangout where people swing by to share tidbits, links and photos to a homestead full of the memories, dreams and diversions of its 800 million users.

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AP – Facebook is trying to evolve from an Internet hangout where people swing by to share tidbits, links and photos to a homestead decorated with the memories, dreams and diversions of its 800 million users.

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Reuters – Two Republican lawmakers urged the top U.S. communications regulator to resist political pressure for allowing broadband start-up LightSquared to deploy a network that could interfere with the global positioning system.

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Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co announced on Thursday that former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman will replace Leo Apotheker as CEO, effective immediately.

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Reuters – Amazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the outage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customer interest has only grown since, a top company executive said.

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Mashable – HP made the widely anticipated move today of ousting Leo Apotheker and installing former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as its new chief executive. The news hit the wires late in the afternoon, after the close of trading.
A little while later, HP employees received their first e-mail from their new leader. In it, Whitman and HP Executive Chairman Ray Lane express their belief in “the future of HP.” They characterize Apotheker’s ouster as him “stepping down” as president and CEO and “resigning” his post as director. Whitman and Lane grant the difficulty of change and say that they made a “difficult decision.”

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