In response to Congressional inquiry, company announces it is allowing consumers to opt out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.

Privacy advocates say the move doesn't go far enough. Websites fear it goes too far. Yahoo Inc. said Friday that it would allow consumers to opt out of targeted advertising on Yahoo.com amid increasing congressional scrutiny about consumer privacy on the Web.

Americans' love affair with 22-inch rims, eight cylinders and four-wheel drive wrapped in an 8,000-pound package is over. And the breakup is going to cost. With $4-a-gallon gas coming between drivers and their very large vehicles, consumers are ...

BIG business has given the Rudd Government a blunt warning that it could ruin the economy if it botches its climate-change response. And it is telling consumers that Australian electricity prices are too low, insisting that state-based caps on power ...

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Australian writer, performer, director and broadcaster Dan Ilic was kind enough to let us know about his latest television advertisement that is ... such a chord with Australians that they raised enough money to have it broadcast on prime time TV. The ad ... for consumers. This of course is a waste of time and money, because as the world runs out of oil

In a sign of "unprecedented pent-up demand" for the upcoming iPhone 3G, investment bank RBC Capital Markets says its own proprietary study has revealed that more than half of consumers who are in the market for a smartphone intend to purchase one of the new Apple handsets after its launch on July 11 ...