The Capital Times, an afternoon daily in Madison, Wis., this weekend folded its print edition and became an online-only newspaper.

The CW's decision to nix free streams of "Gossip Girl" in order to boost TV ratings seemed like a dubious move at the time. And now that the episode has aired, it's clear that the strategy isn't likely to work.

Hedging its bets, Microsoft is publicly talking about walking away from a Yahoo merger, but also has drawn up a slate of 13 candidates for Yahoo's board of directors, according to The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, Yahoo's two-week search outsourcing test with Google has drawn antitrust scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice.

FCC Chair Kevin Martin is making it increasingly clear that he's not happy with Comcast's interference with Web traffic.

Behavioral targeting company Phorm is facing more challenges in the U.K, where it's already come under fire for its proposed data collection methods.

In one of its more puzzling moves, the CW has decided it will no longer make free streams of "Gossip Girl" available online. Clearly, the network hopes that pulling the show from the Web will force people to watch it in real time.

With the two Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission supporting stronger net neutrality laws and the two Republican commissioners favoring a more laissez-faire approach, it's falling to chairman Kevin Martin to pick sides in the debate. So far, he still appears to be wavering between the two.

Continuing to defy the entertainment industry, Pirate Bay has just launched a new blogging service with the vow that it won't censor bloggers that don't violate Swedish laws.

As the Federal Communications Commission gears up for a public hearing about net neutrality tomorrow, Comcast is trying to recast itself as a leader in managing peer-to-peer traffic.

Amazon has been growing its digital download sales without cutting into Apple's bottom line, according to new research from NPD Group. The report is taken as a sign that digital music stores have plenty of room to grow -- which is good news not only for iTunes and other established sellers, but also for new entrants like MySpace, which is gearing up to launch its own DRM-free digital music store.