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4:40 PM ET, August 23, 2006

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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Microsoft to Provide and Sell Ads on Facebook, the Web Site  —  Microsoft said yesterday that it would provide advertising for Facebook, a Web site aimed primarily at college students, over the next three years.  —  The two did not disclose the terms of the deal, in which Microsoft …
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Microsoft and Facebook Team Up for Advertising Syndication  —  Combination of Microsoft's and Facebook's consumer assets provides potent offering for advertisers.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 22, 2006 — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic alliance …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal  —  Microsoft failed to sign MySpace to an advertising deal, so the software giant went out and landed Facebook, the second-largest social networking site.  —  Late Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced that Facebook had agreed to allow the software company …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Sony in Deal to Acquire a Video Site  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to announce on Wednesday that it has acquired Grouper, a Web site featuring videos contributed by users, for $65 million.  —  The deal marries one of the biggest and most powerful movie studios …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wow - Grouper Sells for $65 million  —  Sony Pictures is announcing the acquisition of online video startup Grouper tonight, Tuesday, at midnight EST.  The acquisition price, confirmed by Grouper, was $65 million in cash.  Our previous coverage of Grouper is here.
grouper.com:
Sony Pictures Entertainment Acquires Grouper  —  Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired Grouper, the fast growing user-generated video site on the Internet, it was announced today by Michael Lynton, SPE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  —  Grouper.com, which is the second largest …
Umair / BGSL:   How Not to Think Strategically About the Edge, pt 1733 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Sony Hooks Up With Grouper
CNN:
How Google can make - or break - your company  —  Smart entrepreneurs are learning the best ways to deal with the online Goliath.  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (FSB Magazine) — Allan Keiter awoke one recent morning to the scary news that his Atlanta company's website was nearly impossible to find on a Google search.
Carlo / Techdirt:
When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship  —  Broadband Reports points out a press release which says the Culver City, California, will install filters on its muni-Wifi network — which covers all of one square mile — to weed out porn and P2P traffic.
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vanderwal.net Off the Top:
Net Neutrality Faces Biased FTC  —  FTC to the Rescue?  —  Monday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC Chairman, Deborah Platt Majoras, stated the FTC was going to look into the Net Neutrality issue.  Her statement already shows the outcome based on her language and the tools they are going to use to investigate.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service  —  Have you ever been in a rush, and wanted to call someone, but just to leave them a message without actually talking with them?  The big problem: If you call them, they might pick up.  Joe Sipher and Greg Woock, former executives at the personal digital …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
My Wiki is your wiki  —  I got this email this afternoon from someone who apparently reads my blog.  —  "FYI: Gary Weiss, who has been pretty hard on you and Sharesleuth on his blog, is fixing to do some heavy editing on your article on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_ Cuban ).
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Cedric / Peer Pressure:
5...4...3...2...  In a few hours AllPeers is going to be released in the wild after 5 months of private testing.  We did not invite all the testers during that phase but rest assured the remaining one will receive an email when the application is available.  —  We know some people …
Discussion: TechCrunch, GigaOM and Torrentfreak
Scott Duke Harris / siliconvalley.com:
Quattrone makes deal of lifetime  —  WELCOME BACK TO VALLEY LIKELY WITH CASE DISMISSED  —  Silicon Valley's storied financier, Frank Quattrone, stepped out of a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday with a broad smile and a deal that will allow him to rebuild a career that once made him a technology power broker.
CNET News.com:
IBM to buy ISS for $1.3 billion  —  update IBM made a resounding move into security on Wednesday, acquiring Internet Security Systems for $1.3 billion.  —  The all-cash transaction of about $28 per share is meant to bolster IBM's ability to deliver security services to corporations, the company said.
Larry Angell / iLounge:
Dell quietly exits digital music player market  —  Several iLoungers note that Dell's last remaining digital music player, the DJ Ditty, has quietly disappeared from the company's online store.  The DJ Ditty, a flash memory-based player that competed with the iPod shuffle …
Scott Carney / Wired News:
IPod Gray Market Booms in India  —  CHENNAI, India — It's the same ritual every month.  On the first, my wife sends the rent check to our landlord, a Punjabi cloth merchant with an enormous mustache.  Five days later, he knocks on the door and tells us he never received it.
Gizmodo:
Creative Zen Vision W Unofficially Unveiled  —  A shiny picture of the Creative Zen Vision W found its way into the latest issue of Popular Mechanics, marking yet another time that a Create portable media player had its premature unveiling in the print press (we're looking at you, Maxim).
Discussion: Engadget, Shop Talk and CrunchGear
missingkids.com:
GOOGLE JOINS INDUSTRY-WIDE MOVEMENT TO COMBAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY  —  The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have announced that Google has joined the Technology Coalition …
Discussion: Google Watch
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: Run your own network wiring  —  Wherever you call home, it probably didn't come wired up for that most precious of home utilities: internet access.  Sometimes wireless networking can only take you so far.  Guerrilla network wiring might sound a little strong, but sometimes it ends …
Discussion: Download Squad and Lifehacker
 
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