Reston, Va. - Online retailers on Monday were expected to generate more than $700 million in sales -- an all-time single-day high -- according to Internet audience metrics firm comScore. [more..]

Washington - Consumer advocacy groups including the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Free Press on Monday urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject the proposed merger of satellite radio providers XM and Sirius, saying the deal would eliminate competition and negatively impact consumers. [more..]

Los Angeles - Five Hollywood movie studios have sued Jeboo, a Chinese service that offers what they say are unauthorized movie downloads through Internet cafes in China, as well as an individual Internet café that offered the service, Reuters reported, citing the state Xinhua news agency. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has released a briefing schedule for the appeal of webcasting royalty rates filed by various webcasters, which will begin in February but is not likely to be resolved until sometime in 2009, according to the Broadcast Law blog. [more..]

Woodland Hills, Calif. - Classmates Media, a unit of United Online that operates an online social network focused on reuniting schoolmates, expects to raise $117.7 million in its forthcoming initial public offering, Reuters reported, citing a regulatory filing. [more..]

Paris - French president Nicolas Sarkozy has backed a proposal that would punish those who repeatedly use peer-to-peer networks to trade copyrighted media by terminating their Internet connections, according to published reports. [more..]

New York - Members of the Romantics have sued Activision, publisher of the popular "Guitar Hero" game, over a "sound-alike" version of their song "What I Like About You" featured in the game that the band says sounds too much like their original recording, Billboard reports. [more..]

Reston, Va. - More than three weeks after filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 6.1 million shares, comScore, a provider of Internet audience measurement services, said that it has decided to scrap the offering. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - GuildCafe, the developer of a social network for online games, announced that it has acquired Uberguilds, a network of online gaming communities and fansites. [more..]

New York - Yodle, a provider of local online advertising services for small businesses, has raised $12 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. [more..]

Metuchen, N.J. - Phanfare, a provider of online photo and video hosting services, has raised $2.5 million in its third round of funding, led by Azure Capital Partners, VentureBeat reported. [more..]

This must be the first YouTube hit for an official government - Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA), which regulates and censors media and the arts, has somewhat unexpectedly put together a rap video about the city-state's media ambitions, blogs Jay Baage. [more..]

Scott Karp: Innovation starts with, wow, this really sucks. But what if… [more..]

I've come up with a better way to get rid of P2P without calling for an outright disabling of the protocol. Maybe ISPs should just treat upstream bandwidth the way cellphone companies treat minutes, blogs Mark Cuban. [more..]

New York - Disney's ABC News division has announced a political content partnership with the Facebook online social network, which will see an application added to Facebook featuring ABC News content that allows users to support candidates and discuss the campaign on Facebook. [more..]

New York - News Corp.'s MySpace online social network plans in the next month or two to add "news feeds," similar to the feature on rival Facebook that alerts users when their friends' profiles are updated, Reuters reported. [more..]

Alviso, Calif. - TiVo announced on Monday that its digital video recorders will be available for the first time in Canada -- except in Quebec -- early next month. [more..]

Dublin - Influential "shoegazer" rock band My Bloody Valentine plan to follow in Radiohead's footsteps, when they release a long-awaited reunion album by themselves on the Internet, Billboard reports. [more..]

San Francisco - Clear Channel Outdoor, the company's billboard advertising unit, announced on Monday that it has partnered with Qwikker, a provider of location-based mobile content distribution, to enable the delivery of mobile content over Bluetooth from Clear Channel ad displays. [more..]

New York - TouchTunes, a maker of Internet-connected digital jukeboxes found in bars and restaurants, said on Monday that it will offer a preview of Columbia Records artist Wyclef Jean's forthcoming album, "The Carnival II (Memoirs of an Immigrant)" on 15,000 of its jukeboxes a week before the album's physical release on Dec. 4. [more..]

Oakbrook, Ill. - Redbox, a provider of automated DVD rental kiosks, announced on Monday that it has installed its 6,000th kiosk, which the company said puts it in front of Blockbuster in number of rental locations nationwide. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - Activision announced on Monday that it will release standalone wireless guitar controllers for its "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" game in early 2008. [more..]