“Today is a red-letter day for big-time spammers, and the letters they should remember from this day forward are ‘CAN-SPAM,’” said AOL Executive Vice President and General Counsel Randall Boe.

EarthLink Inc. has agreed to purchase nine million shares of its common stock from Sprint Corp. for $53.1 million.

Google, which is used more than 150 million times per day to conduct searches has announced its entrance into the pay per click arena with the recent introduction of its new “Ad Words Select” program. The old “Ad Words” Program was based on paying per impressions of your ad, not clicks, thus the addition of the word “select.”