Following the reporting of a dispute as to the authenticity of an antique violin, PayPal demanded the buyer destroy the item and provide photographic proof.  At least it wasn't a goldfish or a puppy.

After a four month search, Yahoo has finally announced their new CEO.

There appear to be two possible bids either on the table or in the next room for Yahoo!  Will there be a bidding war between Microsoft and Alibaba?

With the rumours swirling of a Microsoft-led takeover of Yahoo!, my advice to Alibaba's Jack Ma is to buy your company out of Yahoo! as fast as possible.

Bing is out of beta two years after launching in Australia and following many months of work by engineers to localise the search engine’s global experience for Australian users. And, with the job done to Australianise Bing, the milestone has been marked with kangaroos in the sunset replacing the beta tag on the Bing home page.

Online search and online directories continue to attract advertisers at a rapid rate while advertising in the print directories market erodes further. In the 12 months to June this year, Australian online search and directories advertising grew 23 percent to hit $1.4 billion in total revenue, with Google still the overwhelmingly dominant player.

Google has been found not guilty of breaching consumer protection laws by failing to sufficiently distinguish between search results and sponsored links (aka adverts) but its ability to use its dominance of the Australian search market to favour its own services over those of competitors is under increasing scrutiny by the Productivity Commission.

Is this the end of the line for Yahoo?  Their CEO sacked and suggestions that the company is up for sale (at the right price).  Perhaps Alibaba's CEO Jack Ma is the man for the job.

Volunteers and experts around the world are collaborating to solve disaster and climate Problems through Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), with the event set to come to Melbourne next month.

Also known as “Test Flight Day,” World IPv6 day is an opportunity for all interested parties to test the next generation of communications functionality across all parts of the Internet.