Christopher Zara

Business owners are continuing their legal fight against Yelp Inc., charging the user-generated review giant with wielding its influence to extort advertising dollars.

A new poll by Pew Research shows that esteem for journalists has declined sharply since 2009, while teachers and military professionals are still held in overwhelmingly high regard.

Some conservatives on Twitter and Facebook are calling for a boycott of Samuel Adams beer after one of its commercials omitted the “Creator” reference from a Declaration of Independence excerpt.

Broadcast TV comedies like “Family Guy” are contributing to a culture that makes light of sexual exploitation, particularly in regard to underage girls, according to a new report by the conservative watchdog group Parents Television Council.

Even with Johnny Depp, “The Lone Ranger” shot blanks at the box office, showing the risks of rebooting a radio-era franchise.

Media outlets worked overtime this holiday weekend covering the crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, but does wall-to-wall coverage help or hurt in disaster recovery?

A petition is calling on LinkedIn Corp. to strengthen its blocking features and allow users to better protect themselves from stalkers.

According to quarterly ratings released this week by Nielsen, MSNBC’s average primetime viewers were down 16 percent. Rachel Maddow logged her lowest month since her show debuted.

The reported investigation of Gen. James Cartwright over leaks about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks on Iran seems very curious.

Independence Day is Thursday, July 4. Before you head out to that barbeque, brush up on your holiday facts -- but don’t get fooled by these seven common 4th of July myths.

Kathy Carlston, who lived through the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School, is launching an online resource for people dealing with trauma.

The burning question of Bert and Ernie’s sexual orientation flared up again this weekend with the New Yorker’s celebratory cover illustration.

“Stay Mayor,” a new video game, pokes fun at the crack-smoking scandal surrounding Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Gawker’s Crackstarter campaign.

Google Reader, the popular RSS service, will bite the dust July 1. It joins a long list of failed or discontinued Google efforts.

“New Day,” CNN's new morning show, featuring Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan and Michaela Pereira, is off to a sluggish start in the ratings.

Shelly Lazarus, chairman emeritus of Ogilvy & Mather, discusses management philosophies, the future of advertising, and why “Mad Men” moves a little slow for her taste.

In the shadow of DOMA and Prop 8, the ruling on “Salinas v. Texas” could have serious implications for criminal prosecutions.

Liz Pike, a Republican lawmaker from Washington State, has drawn the ire of teachers after posting an open letter on her Facebook page telling them to stop complaining about cost of living and enjoy their summers off.

On Monday, Megan Willett of Business Insider clumsily attempted to make the case that unpaid interns should stop complaining about -- and suing over -- their unpaid internships. They are lucky to have jobs, as she puts it, even if those jobs are unpaid. It’s the kind of untenable argument that reminds one of Mayor Bloomberg’s assertion that New York’s carriage horses should be grateful for the opportunity to schlep tourists around Central Park in the middle of July.Putting aside for a minute the semantic paradox of calling an internship a “job,” Willett’s position ignores the unavoidable fact that many unpaid internships, as they exist today, are illegal -- particularly those in so-called glamour industries like media and entertainment. Except under the narrowest of conditions, unpaid internships violate federal and state labor laws, and no amount of winking, nodding and accepting them as “paying your dues” is going to change that.

Etienne Uzac co-founded International Business Times as a global-news website alternative to the “established business media."

Hershey’s chocolate bar served as a the focal point of a key scene in “Mad Men’s” season-six finale, but will Don Draper’s whorehouse confession help or hurt the Hershey brand?

Rachel Rose Hartman, a White House reporter for Yahoo News, incorrectly referred to Kenya as the country of President Barack Obama’s birth. Despite a correction, a mob of angry Twitter users think she should be out of a job.

The recent NSA surveillance scandal signals a major downside to online tracking. Could private search engines be the answer?

With A-listers like James Franco and Zach Braff turning to crowd-funding, SAG-AFTRA said Friday that offering movie roles to backers on Kickstarter and Indiegogo violates union contracts.

Unanswered questions surrounding the reported death of BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings, 33, have sparked wild conspiracy theories on Reddit and Twitter.

BuzzFeed, Inc. is being sued for $3.6 million by Kai Eiselein, a photographer who says the viral news site violated his copyright.

LGBT Americans are abandoning religion at higher rates than the general public, according to a new Pew Research survey. Respondents ranked the Muslim faith and the Mormon and Catholic churches as the least friendly toward gays and lesbians.

Pro-gay-marriage commentators like Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews discussed gay marriage more often than opponents like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, according to a Pew Research study.

Atlantic Records & parent Warner Music Group are being hit with a suit by a former unpaid intern who said he worked eight months without pay.