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Not exactly great news right before the Facebook IPO...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) intends to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x, which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.

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Sen. Al Franken claimed Monday that big corporations are “hoping to destroy” the Internet and issued a call to arms to several hundred tech-savvy South by Southwest attendees to preserve net neutrality.....

“Unfortunately one thing these big corporations have that we don’t is the ability to purchase favorable political outcomes,” he said. “Big telecoms have lots of [lobbyists], and good ones, too. … The end of net neutrality would benefit no one but these corporate giants.”

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Arianna Huffington says she wasn't looking to sell until she started talking with AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong.

The FCC has approved rules that would give the U.S. government authority to regulate Internet traffic and prevent broadband providers from selectively blocking web traffic.

The Wall Street Journal's Amy Schatz explains what the new rules really mean.

Mozilla Corporation is exploring ways to create a do-not-track tool that could offer Internet users a way to avoid being monitored online.

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