• Bloomberg, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:11 PM

Ready to tackle a range of issues from online privacy to anti-hacking measures, a many Web giants have come together to form a lobbyist group. Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and 11 other Internet companies represent what will now be called the Internet Association. “Calls for more regulation of online business have prompted Web companies to boost their lobbying in recent years,” Bloomberg writes. “Google, Facebook and others led an online protest earlier this year against proposed anti-piracy bills in the U.S. Congress, which they said would promote online censorship, disrupt the Web’s architecture and hurt innovation.”

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