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Tweet Posted: 12:00 AMUpdated: 10:17 PM Facebook helps local businesses market online By Keith Edwards kedwards@centralmaine.comStaff Writer AUGUSTA — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has a Facebook page with nearly 4,700 “likes,” invited representatives of the social networking giant to the city Tuesday to help teach Maine business owners how to turn virtual likes and [...]

Tweet Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other popular sites are gearing up for a total blackout on January 18 in protest of the controversial anti-piracy legislation. Getty Tweet In the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the tech world seems to be gaining ground. In a major protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act [...]

Tweet CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) today announced the 2012 Privacy and Data Protection Town Hall, to be hosted on Tuesday, January 24 from 7:30-10 a.m. at the Mid-America Club. The event will feature speakers from the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission and a panel [...]

Tweet If you’re like most people, you probably use Google or some internet search engine at least once a day. But the “Stop Online Piracy Act” and its companion bill “The Protected IP Act” could change the internet as we know it. Channel Six spoke with a local business who says the proposed law could [...]

Tweet Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:31pm EST (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Sunday named Neil Ashe as the new president and chief executive of its global eCommerce business as the world’s largest retailer in a move to bolster its online presence. Wal-Mart, which is trying to meet customers wherever they want to shop — [...]

Tweet NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet. The service will be the highest profile name to join a growing campaign starting at [...]

Tweet What’s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week. The Big Story: S.B.A. Gains Clout? The Small Business Administration is invited back to the grown-ups’ table (but reaction among small-business advocates is mixed). Trade Shows: C.E.S. Loses Clout? This year’s annual International Consumer Electronics Show had lots to offer for small business, [...]

Tweet The number of mainland Internet users rose to 513 million in December, up 12 percent from a year earlier, the government-sanctioned China Internet Network Information Center said. Among them, the number who go online using handheld devices rose 17.5 percent over a year earlier to 356 million. The popularity of wireless Internet was reflected [...]

Tweet “I don’t feel they behave in a way that I want to support with my consumer dollars,” Dr. Pollack, a professor in Chicago, said of the big Internet retailers. Giant e-commerce companies like Amazon are acting increasingly like their big-box brethren as they extinguish small competitors with discounted prices, free shipping and easy-to-use apps. [...]

Tweet The Obama administration raised concerns Saturday about efforts in Congress that it said would undermine “the dynamic, innovative global Internet,” urging lawmakers to approve measures this year that balance the need to fight piracy and counterfeiting against an open Internet. White House officials said in a blog post that it would not support pending [...]