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CNN Pitches a Cheaper Wire Service to Newspapers (New York Times)
New York Times: CNN Pitches a Cheaper Wire Service to Newspapers — CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strained newspapers looking for an alternative to The Associated Press.
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Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding-Here's a BoomTown ... (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding-Here's a BoomTown Interview With Oak Investment's Fred Harman — The Huffington Post will announce this morning that it has raised $25 million, in a single investment from Oak Investment Partners. —&nbs ...
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Power.com: A One-Stop Shop for Social Networkers (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)
Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Power.com: A One-Stop Shop for Social Networkers — Power.com, a Web start-up from Brazil with some prominent backers, aims to become the portal through which people access their online social lives. It's up against no less than the world's biggest I ...
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Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity ... (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web — Today's the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story ...
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Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web (Brad Stone/New York Times)
Brad Stone / New York Times: Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet's largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last ...
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Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It? (Randall Stross/New York Times)
Randall Stross / New York Times: Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It? — THE Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy. The seductive appearance, however, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric tec ...
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reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids (Zephoria/apophenia)
Zephoria / apophenia: reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids — The involvement of Lori Drew (an adult) in the suicide of Megan Meier has been an unavoidable topic. Last week, Drew was tried on three counts of accessing computers without authorizatio ...
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"Total Fiction": There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal to Buy ... (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: “Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal to Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, at Least!) — A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-know ...
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Black Friday Web sales jump (Jessica Wohl/Reuters)
Jessica Wohl / Reuters: Black Friday Web sales jump — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Online sales jumped on Black Friday as consumers searched for electronics such as the Wii video game console and Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, according to eBay Inc and Amazon.com Inc. — Am ...
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10,000 iPhone Apps - 148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps ... (Michael Arrington/TechCrunc...
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: 10,000 iPhone Apps — 148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an iPhone or iPod touch). & ...
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"Total Fiction": There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy ... (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: “Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, At Least!) — A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-know ...
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A new, elaborate $20 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search? (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: A new, elaborate $20 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search? [Update: Levinsohn says no] — Updated with a quote from Levinsohn below. — Stop me if you've heard this before: There's a report out there that Microsoft is in tal ...
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'Push' Notifications Coming in iPhone 2.2.1? (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors: ‘Push’ Notifications Coming in iPhone 2.2.1? — RussianiPhone.ru claims that they have seen iPhone 2.2.1 Beta 1 and that it implements Push notifications as well as over-the-air MobileMe syncing with Notes support. — As proof they've po ...
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Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal (John Waples/Times of London)
John Waples / Times of London: Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal — SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion). — The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsof ...
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You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? (John Markoff/New York Times)
John Markoff / New York Times: You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? — HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn't need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track h ...
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Google's Gatekeepers (Jeffrey Rosen/New York Times)
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times: Google's Gatekeepers — In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site. — ‘If ...
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Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren't Good Enough (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren't Good Enough — The debate about Netbooks, which are very small and very cheap laptop devices, is beginning to heat up. The category is only about a year old but sales are expected to top 5 million this year ...
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Why I Love Twitter (Tim O'Reilly/O'Reilly Radar)
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar: Why I Love Twitter — If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of cours ...
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Porn bill for couple who can't download (Tony Levene/Guardian)
Tony Levene / Guardian: Porn bill for couple who can't download — Innocent people are getting letters from lawyers claiming they should pay for films they've never seen. Tony Levene investigates — Consumers have received bills for downloads they know nothing ...
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Joost gets back on our radar with iPhone app (Harrison Hoffman/The Web Services Report)
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report: Joost gets back on our radar with iPhone app — Men in Black playing on Joost's new iPhone app. — If ever there was a Web service that experienced a rapid fall from grace, it was online video start-up Joost. What st ...
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