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- Controlling the Space on Myspace May Finish It Off: Wired On Friday: American superhero comics are, these days, rather aware that they've slipped from modishness. And so, in that desperate way, they are constantly peppering their scripts with trendy cultural references. This month, an alternative journalist bombards Captain America with questions: "Do you know what MySpace is?", she asks with a fashionable sneer, writes Danny O'Brien. ...

- Big Numbers, Tough Audience: Murdoch bought it, Google has paid to be part of it, but will MySpace's user base spurn their advances? Google's announcement last week that it is to pay dollars 900m (pounds 475m) to exclusively provide search technology and SMS advertising services on social-networking site MySpace was granted the same kind of gravitas once reserved for venerable media brands such as Disney or Time Warner. ...

- Taiwan - Broadcasters Join New Youtube Taiwan Platform: The internationally-popular website YouTube yesterday launched a local site - YouTube Taiwan - with a Chinese-language interface, in a bid to encourage more Taiwan users to share their video clips, not only with Chinese-language web surfers, but also with others around the globe. ...

- The Indies: A Level Playing Field? When the news broke last week that a select group of independent labels were unhappy with the progress of negotiations with YouTube, an A&R executive with a California-based rock indie immediately reached out to Billboard. His reaction: "Why? We love YouTube." ...

- Companies curb online shopping: The holiday shopping season is in full force, and online retailers are expecting record sales this year. But what's good news for online retailers may not bode well for companies concerned about security employee productivity and bandwidth consumption. ...

- One-Stop Shopping: There's good news on the way for people who wish they could buy goods on-line but aren't prepared to trust the sellers - or the Internet - with their credit card data. ...

- Internet shopping: A recent case study by the California Association of Realtors (CAR) finds that home buyers who let their fingers do the walking through the Internet were happier about their home purchase than buyers who did not use the Internet. The survey interviewed 300 Internet home buyers and 300 traditional home buyers and compared the results. ...