With lots of free options available online, the need to pay for a web service is becoming less and less. Some, such as web hosting are hard to avoid paying for and there are some that offer perks for paid accounts. Those perks can vary from service to service but generally include more storage, extra more »

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is threatening to file criminal charges against Craigslist if they don’t remove the “erotic services” section from the S.C. section.

McMaster said in a letter to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster that the section is used as vehicle to advertise and solicit prostitution. He also accused the service of not following though on the commitments it made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and 43 AGs around the country back in November. At the time Craigslist agreed to improve measures to prevent its service from being misused. It began requiring advertisers to provide a valid phone number and pay for ads in the erotic services section with a credit card. It also said it would donate all revenues gained from that section to charity.

A Sanford C. Bernstein analyst predicted that with the ongoing US economic downturn, the Internet will continue to shrink and most of its major players will suffer but at least two of the current major internet players will remain strong. Guess who? Google and Amazon. The report entitled “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning” more »