Amazon-Google pact makes it easy to link to ads for the retailer’s products from Google blogs

Amazon.com makes ad links easy on Google’s Blogger

Univision to make shows available on YouTube but telenovelas from Televisa not in the deal

Univision to make shows available on YouTube

Husband of top Cuban blogger challenges wife’s assailants to verbal street duel

Cuban blogger’s husband out to avenge her assault

Google, Yahoo, other Web companies urge FDA to adopt broader standards for online drug ads

Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads

State Department ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban blogger who claims harassment by state security

US State Dept ‘deplores assault’ on Cuban bloggers

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says she is briefly detained, harrassed by state security agents

Cuban blogger says she is briefly detained

Best Buy nudges customers away from DVD aisles in new partnership with CinemaNow

Best Buy embraces digital delivery of home video

Twitter’s suggested user list favors Democrats in California gubernatorial contest

Twitter user list favors Dems in Calif. gov race

That’s a wrap: Chief of Hollywood’s lobbying arm will step down next September

WASHINGTON — The face of Hollywood’s movie industry in Washington is leaving the post next year, prompting a casting call for one of this city’s most coveted lobbying jobs.

Newspaper column on death of singer sparks Twitter-fueled storm, deluge of complaints

LONDON — Britain’s press watchdog said Monday it had received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive.

Is a Google search a political ad? States starting to consider campaign rules for Internet age

MADISON, Wis. — To promote his recent campaign for mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla., Scott Wagman bought an ad that popped up online when anyone ran a Google search for his opponents’ names.

The truth is already out there: Twitter users thwart oil company’s attempt to gag media

LONDON — Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain’s media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.

Cuba denies blogger Yoani Sanchez permission to travel to US to accept top journalism prize

HAVANA — A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.

FTC: Bloggers must disclose freebies or payments; testimonials to reflect typical results

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time and mandating that testimonials reflect typical results.

FTC: Bloggers must disclose any freebies or payments they get for writing product reviews

The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.

AP source confirms that Twitter raises $100M in a deal valuing the young company at $1B

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc.’s lack of revenue isn’t discouraging investors.

ACORN grew from local charity to national conglomerate with radio stations, schools

WASHINGTON — Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help poor people in Arkansas and by decade’s end went national, expanding into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man its political arm endorsed is the president. Oh yeah — and it’s the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp.

States offer instant traffic updates via Twitter, sending mixed message on texting and driving

Fiddling with your iPhone behind the wheel can get you fined across much of the nation. But many states are more than happy to tweet you with up-to-the-minute directions on how to steer clear of a traffic jam.

Court rules against Universal Music Group in suit against online video site Veoh

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled against Universal Music Group in a copyright lawsuit against online video site operator Veoh Networks Inc., although Universal says it will appeal.

Freed Vietnamese blogger agrees to stop writing as condition of release from jail

HANOI, Vietnam — A woman who was jailed after writing a blog critical of the Vietnamese government said Monday that she agreed to stop blogging as a condition of her release.

US-based journalism watchdog group calls for end to harassment of Cuban bloggers

HAVANA — A U.S.-based journalist watchdog group called Thursday for an end to what it described as “systemic harassment” of bloggers and independent journalists in Cuba, and urged the international community to step up its lobbying on the bloggers’ behalf.

Trial of blogger who said 3 judges ‘deserve to be killed’ transferred from Chicago to New York

CHICAGO — The trial for a blogger accused of threatening three Chicago-based federal judges has been moved from Illinois to New York.

Vietnamese police release blogger, online journalist after more than a week in custody

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities have released a blogger and an online journalist more than a week after detaining them for questioning about postings critical of the Communist government’s handling of relations with China.

Vietnamese police release blogger after more than a week in custody

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities have released a blogger more than a week after detaining him for questioning about postings critical of the Communist government’s handling of relations with China and the Catholic Church.

Vietnam arrests another blogger as crackdown on online government critics continues

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese police arrested another blogger, her mother and diplomats said Friday, as authorities continued a crackdown against writers who have criticized Communist Party policies online.