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Criticism of the proposed $44.6 billion cash & stock takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft has elicited negative comments from some industry observers.

Closing up parts of the BitTorrent protocol may have been a necessary business decision by Bram Cohen and company, but it's motivated the people behind The Pirate Bay to start working on a new protocol to replace torrents.

Baidu owns a huge share of the Chinese search market, despite attacks from Google and Yahoo.  That success is likely due to its home field advantage.  We may soon find out how Baidu will fare outside the Great Firewall, however, as reports indicate that the company may expand into Europe.

In some markets, Google is getting trounced.  Take China and South Korea, for instance: the big guy just can’t win.  In other regions, Google continues to reign supreme, and the latest numbers from comScore confirm that Britain is willing to crown Google as king of the search engines.  Social networks also fared well in the UK.

A Trojan that arrives by email targets potential car buyers at eBay Motors, and attempts to closely imitate a legitimate auction.

After all is clicked and bought, Thanksgiving weekend numbers are in with clear retail sector winners. While Best Buy, eBay, Wal-Mart, and Amazon (the four horsemen?) are directing all the Web traffic, it is still unclear which day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or Cyber Monday, pulls in the most shoppers.

Schools are finding a better answer for voice communications: Wi-Fi based telephones.

When people come to your website they have a mental map of how their 'ideal' webpage should be. They expect to see certain things in certain places. They expect to read certain killer words in your classification and content. The more you meet their mental map, the more successful your website will be.