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STRASBOURG, France – The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, a Luxembourgian, called for “full privatization” of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanding that it …

KEY LARGO, Fla. – It took nearly half an hour to slick up quadriplegic British Royal Marine Dominic Lovett with baby shampoo and tug him into a neoprene wetsuit. Then six scuba instructors carried him on a mat from the sandy shore into the turquoise sea off the Florida Keys, …

NEW YORK – Facebook is getting a $200 million investment from a Russian Internet investor that values the social networking company at $10 billion even though it has yet to turn a profit. The investment gives Digital Sky Technologies a nearly 2 percent stake in Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook’s preferred …