Sunnyvale, Calif. - Billionaire financier Carl Icahn will attempt to remove Jerry Yang as the CEO of Yahoo, should he successfully gain control of the company's board, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. [more..]

Washington - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Major League Baseball in a move that will give fantasy sports leagues the rights to use players' names and statistics without paying a license fee. [more..]

New York - Time Warner Cable will this week begin testing a new metered pricing scheme for some of its broadband subscribers in Texas, where users will be charged an extra $1 per gigabyte if they exceed their monthly bandwidth allowance. [more..]

New York - Voom HD Networks, a suite of HD channels owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media, has filed a complaint against satellite TV provider DISH Network with the New York Supreme Court, claiming over $1 billion in damages in the wake of DISH's dropping Voom's channels from its service last month, Multichannel News reported. [more..]

Seattle - Starbucks has begun offering customers two hours of free Wi-Fi access per day through its new Internet partner, AT&T, USA Today reports. [more..]

San Diego - Veoh, an Internet TV service, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in its fourth round of financing, from investors that included Intel Capital, Adobe Systems and Gordon Crawford, SVP of Capital Research Global Investors. [more..]

Los Angeles - Retail giant Wal-Mart has launched a beta test of an online classified ads listing service powered by Oodle, which aggregates listings from over 80,000 sites and counts over 40 million listings. [more..]

Port Washington, N.Y. - The percentage of U.S. HDTV owners aware of the next-generation Blu-ray Disc format has grown to 45%, from 35% in June 2007, but just 6% of all consumers and 9% of HDTV owners said they plan to buy a Blu-ray player in the next six months, according to a survey conducted by market research firm NPD Group. [more..]

New York - SpiralFrog, the developer of a free, ad-supported peer-to-peer music download service, on Tuesday announced its second deal with a major record label, as EMI Music signed on to offer its catalog on the site. [more..]

Hollywood, Calif. - Buzznet, a social media company that operates sites centered on music and pop culture, on Tuesday announced the beta launch of Celebuzz.com, an online social network for fans of celebrity news and gossip. [more..]

San Francisco - Lumos Labs, a developer of Web-based, "scientifically-tested brain games," announced on Tuesday that it has raised $3 million in equity financing from Pequot Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and previous backers including Michael Dearing. [more..]

New York - Collective Media, a New York-based online advertising network and technology provider, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Personifi, which provides advanced audience targeting software to Web publishers, ad networks and mobile providers. [more..]

The appeals of last year's Copyright Royalty Board decision on the royalties paid for the use of sound recordings by Internet radio stations continue on, and one recent filing raises interesting questions of whether or not the CRB was properly appointed, blogs David Oxenford. [more..]

San Francisco - Apple is expected to release the first native third-party applications for its iPhone on Monday -- the same day that CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the next-generation model of the handset -- CNET News.com reported, citing a source at a software company that has been working on an iPhone application. [more..]

Los Angeles - Classic rock group Boston has hired a new lead singer, who came to their attention via karaoke videos posted on his MySpace profile. [more..]

Cupertino, Calif. - Radiohead's catalog is now available for download in DRM-free format from Apple's iTunes store, after the band apparently caved on its stance that its songs only be sold bundled as albums. [more..]

Foster City, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Future US, publisher of The Official PlayStation Magazine, to produce an original, monthly HD program that will be distributed exclusively through the PlayStation Store for its PlayStation 3 console. [more..]

Los Angeles - Activision plans to release a Metallica-themed version of its popular "Guitar Hero" game, according to an SEC filing noted by Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Edward Woo, GameSpot reported. [more..]

London - Peter Gabriel-backed online entertainment service The Filter on Tuesday announced its official launch, offering a catalog of 5 million songs and 330,000 movies, Billboard reports. [more..]

New York - NBC Universal and ratings and research firm Nielsen have announced a partnership to create a new sales and marketing metric, that will combine TV and Web video ratings with databases of consumer activity for broader overall product categories, including packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, automotive and movies. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Vollee, a service that offers PC applications on mobile devices by streaming them over 3G networks, on Tuesday announced the beta release of its mobile application for Linden Lab's "Second Life" virtual world. [more..]