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A Internet statement purportedly from an insurgent group in Iraq urged militants on Tuesday to attack targets in Denmark and Norway, the first known call for violent reprisals over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "We call on all our brigades in Mujahedeen Army to hit any targets they can in these two countries, and any other country that does the same thing," the...

The newspaper publisher Knight Ridder, which is seeking a buyer under pressure from its largest shareholders, reported a 22 percent decline in fourth-quarter earnings yesterday from a year ago. The company, which is based in San Jose, Calif., earned $83.3 million, or $1.24 a share, in the three months ended Dec. 25, down from $107.2 million, or $1.38 a share, a year earlier. The latest results...

LONDON, Jan. 31 – As Islamic protests spread about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, defended press freedom in his country on Tuesday but distanced himself from the newspaper's decision to publish the drawings. His remarks fell far short of the apology demanded by an array of Islamic groups and countries which have imposed a...

A Danish newspaper suffered bomb scares a day after apologising for cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed which prompted protests from Muslims and a boycott of Danish products in a dozen nations. The offices of Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen and Arhus were evacuated as the storm continued over its publication last September of a series of 12 satirical cartoons regarded by many Muslims as blasphemous. In...

Yahoo recent quarterly results disappointed investors when their net income only rose 32% over a year ago. The market punished their stock, taking billions off their market cap. Will the same thing happen to Google? I'm no Jim Cramer, but I do know a few things about the two ad platforms that generate the bulk of each company's profits. Here are a few key differences I've noticed that influence...

AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has called for an end to the free Internet which he says is costing coms companies a fortune. According to the Financial Times, Whitacre said that content providers should be paying for the use of the network which is effectively being delivered for free by the coms companies. He said that web providers could pay the comms companies by charging their customers for visiting...

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...