>> The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to the
media giant Viacom and other copyright holders after a US court directed it to submit its database to Viacom.
>> Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola has come under pressure for their continued sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics, with activists
protesting the Chinese government's stance on Tibet. Coca-Cola signed the sponsorship deal before the hosts were announced. Coca-Cola has
sponsored the Olympics since 1928. Coke chairman Neville Isdell said: "What we support is not actually individual governments but the credo of
the Olympic movement."
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