The same day that News Corp.'s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said he wants to make The Wall Street Journal available for free online, the company started taking steps in that direction through a deal with social news site Digg.com.

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch today told shareholders in Australia that he plans to end subscription fees for The Wall Street Journal online.

Google is in talks with "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, according to a report in U.K. paper The Guardian.

There's been a lot of talk this week about whether Facebook's new ad plan -- which involves enlisting members as brand evangelists -- is a stroke of brilliance, massive invasion of users' privacy, or both. Now, real questions have surfaced about whether the program is even legal.

The recent revelation that Comcast was slowing down traffic to file-sharing sites like BitTorrent raises a host of questions, not least of which is what other ISPs are impeding service.

As industry executives convened in Washington, D.C. last week to debate whether behavioral targeting techniques violate privacy, Facebook was prepping a new initiative that makes anxieties about serving people ads based on their surfing history appear almost quaint.

It's no exaggeration to say the music industry is eagerly awaiting the results of Radiohead's decision to let consumers decide how much, if anything, to pay for the group's latest album. Now, preliminary results in from comScore show that about six in 10 downloaders didn't pay anything for the album since it was made available online on Oct. 10.

When Universal Music Group filed suit against MySpace last year for copyright infringement, the legal move had some unexpected ramifications.

Call it "Disclosure 2.0." That's the term Internet guru Esther Dyson used today to describe a new type of privacy notice that might be coming to the online marketing world.

The Center for Digital Democracy and U.S. Public Interest Research Group renewed their call for an investigation into behavioral targeting this morning, filing a supplement to their year-old FTC complaint.