Yahoo Inc. spent $630,000 in the first quarter lobbying on intellectual property and international censorship issues, according to a disclosure report.

An interesting turn of events on the OpenSocial scene, with Yahoo agreeing to embrace the Google-backed social app distribution platform. Yahoo, Google and MySpace have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation—"an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework"—and to add related assets by July 2008.

An interesting turn of events on the OpenSocial scene, with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) agreeing to embrace the Google-backed social app distribution platform. Yahoo, Google and MySpace have agreed to form the OpenSocial Foundation"an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework"and to add related assets by July 2008. The online home for the foundation will ...