6 February 2011. Statement by the US Treasury on Implementation of National Defense Authorization Act Sanctions on Iran

Clint Eastwood has thrown his hat into the ring with a SuperBowl half-time advert on behalf of, nominally, Chrysler but widely seen as pro-Detroit in general. Actually, it's much more than that.

India's Kingfisher Airlines is continuing to show that it's financials aren't flying.

Hungary's national carrier, Malev, has ceased operations without warning, leaving more than 7,000 passengers stranded and thousands of ticket holders unable to travel.

China has told the EU: if you want our business, scrap this tax. And in the meantime, we're not paying it.

Several weeks ago, M logged into his company's AdSense account at Google.com to monitor the advertising revenue generated from advertisements Google.Com places on their websites. Later the same day, he visited YouTube - and noticed that, although he had never set up a YouTube account, and did not want one, he was marked as signed in. Now Google has started writing to all of its users explaining a new policy which it says it is going to put into force. Is your company at risk?

It's perhaps the biggest intellectual property rights enforcement case in the history of such cases. And yet, unless you are young and tech savvy, the chances are that you've never heard of it. But if you are an internet user, the action against file-sharing site MegaUpload is going to rock your world. You just don't know it yet.

Were / are you an early adopter? Did/do you surf the wave of new products just because they were cool - or whatever the word was during the decades that "cool" was an uncool word? Did/do you queue outside a shop to get a new product on its first day? And did/does your heart beat a little (or even a lot faster) when rumours - or better still leaked photos or details - of a new product floated around? Are you excited by today's "leaked details" of the Blackberry 10?

Or are you bored by the whole thing and realising you're being manipulated?

It was the big splash story two days ago. Wikipedia, which is website on which contributors post their opinions and views with limited editorial supervision, is against the imposition of a level of responsibility similar to that applied to newspaper publishers. Google agrees. But there is a behind the scenes issue relating to the control of intellectual property. At the heart of that argument, although rarely expressed, is the issue over who has control over the information and its dissemination. That's where Wikipedia's entire protest fell apart.