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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with Yahoo Inc to fend off Microsoft Corp’s $42.1 billion bid, according to several reports.
One proposal under discussion would value the MySpace online social network at around $6 billion to $10 billion and [...]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet company part-owned by Yahoo Inc, has hired advisers to evaluate issues related to a possible purchase of its U.S. partner by Microsoft Corp after the Chinese government said it would scrutinize the deal, the Wall Street Journal said Friday.
Alibaba executives believe Microsoft [...]

KRASNOYASK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia’s president-in-waiting Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday media freedoms are guaranteed in Russia — by the Internet.
The 42-year-old Medvedev, currently Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister, told journalists he went online to check news and views at the beginning and end of each working day.
“There is news from [...]

By Gail Schiller
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Toys based on the upcoming
movies “Speed Racer,” “The Dark Knight,” “Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Hulk” are expected to be the
biggest hits at Toy Fair, which kicks off Sunday in Manhattan.
Other film properties expected to make a [...]

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A jobless Hong Kong man, detained for
weeks and denied bail in the city’s nude celebrity photo
scandal was released on Friday following a public outcry that
he was unfairly victimized by police.
Chung Yik-tin, 29, was arrested and detained in late
January after police raided his home and accused [...]

By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new editor of the Los Angeles
Times defended himself on Friday against suggestions he lacked
the stature to run the fourth-largest U.S. newspaper, saying
his Internet savvy made up for the Pulitzer Prizes missing from
his resume.
Russ Stanton’s appointment to the top editorial job at [...]

SEOUL, Feb 15 (Reuters) - South Korea’s antitrust watchdog
approved on Friday SK Telecom’s (017670.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) $1.2 billion stake
purchase in broadband company hanarotelecom inc (033630.KQ: Quote, Profile, Research) but
with conditions to limit its impact in the telecom market.
The ruling by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) clears SK, the
country’s [...]

(Releads, changes attribution and quotes) By Christian Lowe MOSCOW, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday international recognition of Kosovo would influence its policy towards the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but it did not say if it would recognise them. Kosovo is expected to unilaterally [...]

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LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Three of Britain’s largest
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have signed up to use a new
advertising platform that will give them a slice of the growing
online targeted ad market.
BT (BT.L: Quote, Profile, Research), Virgin Media (VMED.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Carphone Warehouse’s
(CPW.L: Quote, [...]