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Israel.com: Bidding Starts At $5.5 Million

Moniker.com plans to part with a number of domain names at auction on May 23rd. One of the domains will be Israel.com, with the highest starting bid in the group.

Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo's board.

Cox, Comcast Caught Red-Dotted

Only two countries in the world have ISPs actively blocking or interfering with BitTorrent transmissions: Singapore and the United States. Only one kind of ISP in both countries, though, is doing the blocking: cable. An independent test conducted by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems showed that Comcast and Cox are both currently interfering with BitTorrent despite recent public and regulatory outrage.

A Short Guide To Carl Icahn's Ten Men

Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo's board of directors.  Icahn's even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.

MySpace Suicide Mom Indicted

The woman whose bizarre MySpace hoax led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide was indicted today on federal charges. If convicted on all counts, Lori Drew could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. The country was stunned by the alleged actions of Drew some months back when news broke of the sadistic mind game she was playing with a neighborhood teenager and classmate of her daughter. Posing as a teenage boy, the 49-year-old Drew is said to have rejected the romantic interest of Megan Meier and told her the world would be better off without her. Meier later hanged herself.

Facebook Snubs Google's Friend Connect

Looking to not repeat the privacy panic occurring when the company launched Beacon, Facebook has excused itself from participation in Google's recently unveiled Friend Connect. On the Facebook Developers blog, Charlie Cheever says Friend Connect, Google's Open Social-based program allowing webmasters to integrate social networking features on their sites, doesn't measure up privacy-wise:

Yahoo's SearchMonkey Comes Out To Play

Want to "have a hand in shaping the next generation of search"?  Or at least pad your wallet with ten thousand dollars?  Yahoo has opened its new SearchMonkey platform to all developers, and at the same time, announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.

Buyout The Best Sites, Beat Google

Mark Cuban suggested Yahoo or Microsoft could payoff the top five sites for each of the top 25,000 queries on Google, have those sites leave the Google index for good, and bring Google's normal traffic for those sites into the rival fold.

comScore: Google, Not Yahoo, Now Top Destination

As Google trounced Yahoo in various fields, fans of the second company could always point out that its sites received more U.S. traffic overall.  New comScore stats show that this is no longer true.

CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion

Yesterday afternoon, CNET's stock closed at a price of $7.95 per share.  This morning, CBS announced its plan to acquire CNET for $11.50 per share, or about $1.8 billion overall.