Around the Web 5.14.08

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If your free download of Coldplay’s new single, ‘La Vida,’ sounded worse than you expected, your ears weren’t playing tricks on you. Apple plans to offer a higher-quality version, Extended Play reported.

What’s up with the lack of new HBO shows on iTunes, Jon Healey asks.

Yahoo shareholders are waiting for Carl Icahn to strike.

Advertisers are finding new ways to tap into buzz on YouTube.

Google.org, the search giant’s do-gooder arm, invests in a solar thermal company.

Microsoft and Sony fight over whose console rocked ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ harder.

Can’t Craigslist and EBay just get along?

Web retailer Overstock. won’t sell through affiliates in New York state after the state started trying to collect sales tax from online shoppers.

MySpace to Spam King: $230 million for bugging our users should be just fine, thanks.

Charter Communications, the No. 4 cable provider, plans to track its broadband customers’ Web surfing so it can hit them up with targeted ads.

-- Chris Gaither