New York Decides to Abandon "iPod Tax". New York Abandons New Taxes. Last year, New York Governor David Paterson announced his administration would look into instituting a state tax on purchased digital music. That plan has now been abandoned.. In what WCBS-TV...

investigating), do you think it's likely that this deal will be abandoned? Google and Yahoo! last year had a highly controversial ad deal in the works that both companies said was penned to meet DOJ standards. However, that deal was abandoned just hours before...

Yahoogle! Deal Ditched Hours Before DOJ Could Cry Antitrust. Yahoo! Google Microsoft DOJ. New information about the long since abandoned proposal that Google and Yahoo! get-together for a lucrative ad deal has come to light with an attorney associated with...

in debt, reportedly cutting 530 jobs and closing its City&Suburban unit (story). The paper is also considering selling off parts of the company in order to stay afloat. The Christian Science Monitor, founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, has abandoned its daily...

point or another in more than a dozen states, but none have actually put a new policy in place. Several of them, including California, Michigan, and Texas have just abandoned the idea outright. New York feels online stores have an obligation to collect sales...

continue to slow," said Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for NPD. "Amazon’s CD buyers tend to be older, so they haven’t abandoned the CD format to the extent seen in the average music buyer. Plus Amazon’s successful introduction of its digital...

in San Jose. Along with its business offices, the campus would have brand new facilities for battery research and drivetrain manufacturing.  "We abandoned (the VC route) because the VC financing environment became so tight and difficult,” Tesla spokesperson...