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The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has slammed the door on Google. The search engine giant was trying to buy a local online advertising company, Zao Begun, but FAS officials decided to block the deal. Google first announced its intent to acquire the Russian company, which is owned by Rambler Media, in July. Zao Begun’s search and contextual advertising business boasts 40,000 advertisers over a network of 143,000 Russian Web sites. The intended deal was valued at $140 million.

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Russians Nix Google Ad Deal

A month after irking part of the independent recording community by launching its online music service mostly with major labels, MySpace Music has made a deal to almost double the amount of indie tunes available through the service. In an agreement announced Thursday, the San Francisco-based Independent Online Distribution Alliance — a digital distributor of tunes for several thousand labels — will make its library of more than 1 million tracks available through MySpace Music.

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MySpace Music Struggles to Hit the Right Pitch With Indie Labels

Operators of child pornography Web sites will have no place to hide, under a program being started by the European Union. The names of people suspected of putting illegal pictures and videos online will be sent to authorities in each of the 27 European Union nations under the plan agreed to Friday by the EU justice and interior ministers. The aim is to ensure that illegal Web site operators do not escape from one EU country to another EU undetected, said French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, who presided over Friday’s talks.

EU Nations to Pool Info About Online Child Porn Purveyors

Andy Bechtolsheim, a revered technologist who cofounded Sun Microsystems and has been instrumental in designing the company’s servers, is stepping down from his day-to-day role to help build a new networking startup. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, which makes servers and software widely used in corporate computing centers, said Thursday that Bechtolsheim’s transition to part-time work status was effective immediately. He will give up the title of chief architect but will still play an important role in product design, the company said.

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Sun Cofounder Switches Into Startup Mode

Caution: Just because your company has a payment card industry compliance certificate, don’t assume your data is perfectly safe and secure. You can still suffer a breach. That’s the lesson recently learned by retail clothing company Forever 21. Company officials posted a notice on their Web site last month telling customers of a data breach involving 98,000 credit cards. Forever 21 was PCI compliant at the time of the breach, according to a written statement the company released. Being PCI compliant does not guarantee that a firm is immune from a breach.

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to PCI-Compliant Companies?