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As states grapple with increasingly squeezed budgets, the battle to collect sales taxes from retail behemoth Amazon has heated considerably over the past year. Now, Texas has raised the ante by hitting Amazon for four years of back sales taxes.

With skyrocketing budget shortfalls, cash-strapped states see Amazon affiliates as a sales-tax cash cow. But the measures don't seem to work -- and the retailer is firing back.

I'm beginning to suspect the Parents Television Council is actually a front group controlled by the entertainment industry. The group, which calls itself "the nation's most influential advocacy organization," has trained its rhetorical cannons on The CW Network, which has been promoting an upcoming...

Ever since it announced plans to create a 10 p.m. nightly talk show for Jay Leno, NBC has said it will give the strategy plenty of time to prove its worth. But reality may be less patient. While General Electric Co. (GE)'s network may be prepared to accept smaller audiences than it's accustomed...