Los Angeles - The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has postponed a planned reopening of stalled contract negotiations with the studios and networks tomorrow, after it was threatened with a lawsuit seeking to reinstate ousted chief negotiator Doug Allen, the Los Angeles Times reported. [more..]

San Francisco - The company hired by MySpace to help remove the profiles of some 90,000 registered sex offenders from the social network now says that it believes over 8,000 of these individuals are potentially maintaining profiles on Facebook, TechCrunch reported. [more..]

Redwood City, Calif. - Video game developer and publisher Electronic Arts said on Tuesday that it would lay off 1,100 employees, or about 11% of its staff, instead of the 1,000 cuts it announced in December, and also delayed the release of three upcoming titles as part of further cost-cutting initiatives. [more..]

Milan, Italy - Several Google executives were in court today in Milan, Italy, facing criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation over a video posted to Google Video depicting Italian youths teasing a boy with Down syndrome, according to published reports. [more..]

London - Irish Internet service provider Eircom has agreed to institute a "graduated response," or "three-strikes" policy on repeat file-swappers, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit where the ISP was accused of facilitating copyright infringement, The Register reported.
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New York - Trying to turn around an online advertising business hit hard by the global recession, AOL said on Tuesday that it has hired former Yahoo executive Greg Coleman to replace Lynda Clarizio as the president of Platform-A. [more..]

New York - With the economic downturn in full swing, technology entrepreneurs are finding it increasingly difficult to land the angel funding they need to help transform their ideas into reality, The New York Times reported. [more..]

Seattle - Online retail giant Amazon.com on Tuesday announced the launch of a video game download store, which initially offers a library of over 600, sub-$10 casual games for the PC platform. [more..]

San Jose, Calif. - TextDigger, a developer of semantic profiling, text mining and search tools, announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $4.3 million round of financing, led by True Ventures. [more..]

Amsterdam - MMO Life, the operator of a network of regional portals for multiplayer online game players, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $1.3 million in initial funding from investors including Klaas Kersting and Alexander Roesner, of Gameforge, and ex-Endemol media executive Pim Schmitz. [more..]

Washington - The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Tuesday named former Sprint Nextel executive Anna Gomez as the deputy assistant secretary for communications and information, as well as deputy administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). [more..]

Glasgow, Scotland - Online photo agency Getty Images has decided to shutter Scoopt, a citizen journalism site it acquired in 2007, PaidContent reported. [more..]

Foster City, Calif. - Sony has announced plans to release a version of its "SingStar" karaoke video game featuring the music of operatic rock band Queen. [more..]