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Google's Growth Prompts Privacy Concerns (AP)
AP - Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.

10 years after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth (AFP)
AFP - After enjoying phenomenal growth in its first 10 years, Internet commerce faces new challenges amid growing fears of viruses, spyware and a range of fraud schemes.

Amazon fetes 10th year with Bob Dylan, Norah Jones (Reuters)
Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc.celebrated its 10th year Saturday with a private concert thatincluded a rare joint performance by Bob Dylan and Norah Jones.

Internet speed battle heats up (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Comcast, the Bay Area's dominant cable provider, said Tuesday that it will upgrade customers to a faster broadband Internet connection this summer -- up to 6 megabits a second for most subscribers.

AlwaysOn's founder says valley still `Athens of information age'(SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Tony Perkins is the founder of AlwaysOn, a publishing group that runs a commentary and networking site at www.alwayson-network.com. His group is organizing the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford, to be held Tuesday through Thursday. Among other things, the conference will recognize what AlwaysOn and a team of judges have selected as the 100 top private companies. Perkins, who was also the founder of the former Red Herring magazine, recently spoke with Mercury News Staff Writer Matt Marshall about Silicon Valley's role in innovation, business in China and new forms of media. Here is an edited transcript of their conversation.

ITunes Hits Half Billion Mark (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced that music-minded consumers have purchased and downloaded over half a billion songs from the iTunes music store.

News Corp to buy Intermix for$580 million (Reuters)
Reuters - News Corp. on Monday said itwould buy Intermix Media Inc. , owner of the popularMySpace.com social networking site, for$580 million in a moveto expand the media conglomerate's Internet offerings.

Rising demand for video online pulls Ikanos out of economic eddy (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Ikanos Communications could have taken a shortcut to the market. But the Fremont chip maker took the long road, waiting out the telecommunications downturn. Now years later the start-up's patience is starting to pay off.

Telecoms seen beating cable on broadband in Q2 (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. local telephone companieslikely outgunned the cable industry last quarter in the racefor new high-speed Internet subscribers by their widest marginto date, according to analysts'estimates.