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In a sign that Google's negotiations with the Associated Press over a new licensing contract may have reached a standstill, new AP articles are no longer being hosted in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News; Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, who first reported the development, says that new AP articles haven't been hosted on the site since Dec. 24. Google isn't providing an explanation. 

Search engine in China cleared of piracy in dispute with music industry.

Article that discusses the potential consequences Google may face by refusing to censor web searches in China.

"IAC-owned local guide network Citysearch is expanding its local listings ad service CityGrid through a partnership with search marketer OrangeSoda. Citysearch is also providing an investment in Utah-based OrangeSoda, the amount of which is undisclosed. The move is part of a more aggressive effort by Citysearch to attract more ad dollars from local businesses. While Citysearch has been around for 15 years and has often catered to local online advertisers across a dozen city-centric sites, many other outlets are similarly stepping up their outreach to small marketers too. With CityGrid, Citysearch isn't trying to beat those other directory and local blog sites; it believes it can get those competitors to join them."

New social media tracking tool launches. Unlike google alerts, Trackur searches tweets and other social media.

Explains promise and peril of publisher alliances with the Apple tablet. Portends secure revenues, but deterioration of publishers' direct connection to subscribers.

THE Sundance Film Festival, whose 2010 installment started here on Thursday, went from boom to gloom almost as fast as the rest of America. Or at least the cinematic marketplace surrounding it did.

Google may close its Chinese branch over the government's desire to censor search results.

MPAA use specter of financial crisis to deride the proposed creation of a "contract market for film futures."