2005-2014

Google's profit surged 82% and sales surged in the fourth quarter as the Internet search giant continued to gain from advertisers shifting their spending online from traditional media. The leading search engine company posted net income of $372.2 million, or $1.22 a share, compared with $204.1 million, or 71 cents a share, in the same quarter last year. Revenue was $1.92 billion, up from $1.03...

"You guys are bad for democracy. You are jeopardising our democracy." The bombshell was dropped on a private media reporter of the Botswana Gazatte, by the MoE Minister. Hon. Jacob Nkate. The Minister’s interview with the reporter raises awkward questions on the health of our democracy. Batswana must remember, that all the dictators and all the enemies of democracy, start with the private media...

Microsoft unveiled new company guidelines yesterday intended to spell out how it will deal with government censorship demands, in China and anywhere it does business, and limit the impact of its compliance. It was responding to criticism that followed its decision to shut down five weeks ago, at the Chinese government's request, the online journal of a popular blogger in Beijing who used the...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern over the bomb threat against the Viby-based Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in retaliation for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. International media reported that a caller speaking English told the switchboard of the newspaper's branch office in Copenhagen on Tuesday that a bomb would explode in 10 minutes. Police with...

Amid growing concerns that U.S. Internet companies are bowing to foreign censors, Microsoft announced a set of policies Tuesday aimed at better protecting blogs and other online content from government restrictions. It remains to be seen whether the company's new approach will enable more free speech in countries such as China, but one expert in online rights said it appears to be a promising...

It's not easy being Wikipedia, a free web encyclopedia created and edited by anonymous contributors. Just ask founder Jimmy Wales, who has seen his creation come under fire in just a few short months as the site fends off vandalism and charges of inaccurate entries. “Wikipedia has always been in a state of change,” says Wales, in defense of his product. That’s putting it mildly. On November 29...

COPENHAGEN, January 31, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Representatives of Danish Muslims said Tuesday, January 31, they accepted the apology of a Danish newspaper for its blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), urging more reasonable tone about Islam and Muslims and steps to stop a boycott of Danish products in the Muslim world. "We will clearly and articulately thank the prime...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 30 – A long-running controversy over the publication of caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by a Danish newspaper boiled over in the past few days as a boycott brought sales of some Danish products to a halt in Arab countries across the Middle East, while Danish interests came under attack. A diverse group of Muslim activists has stirred a consumer uproar...

GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark on Tuesday for allowing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to be published, and Arab ministers called on the Copenhagen government to punish the newspaper that printed them. Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted "War on Denmark, Death to Denmark" and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north European country...

A simmering controversy exploded into a firestorm of protest across the Middle East on 30 January over a series of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were printed in two Scandinavian newspapers. From Gaza to Cairo, from Beirut to Baghdad, demonstrators took to the streets as religious leaders and politicians threatened economic boycotts -- and worse -- if the newspapers did not condemn the...