The US Treasury issued, on 8 February 2012, a notice relating to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA).

It's not strictly a scam, but the techniques used by some businesses to persuade others to purchase domain names, often at vastly inflated prices, is becoming a serious nuisance. Why doesn't the domain name industry respond to scalping in the same way as the entertainment industry responds to ticket touts?

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.