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12:45 PM ET, August 23, 2006

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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 …
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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.
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 …
Discussion: BGSL
Rafat / paidContent.org:
Sony Pictures Buys Video Sharing Site Grouper For $65 Million [by Rafat]  —  The rumors were true: Sony Pictures has made its first Internet acquisition in a long long time, and officially enters into the social media arena: it has bought video sharing site Grouper, for $65 million.
Om Malik / GigaOM:   Sony Hooks Up With Grouper
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Does Ad Deal, But Not With Google  —  Facebook signed an advertising deal (update: also in NY Times) with Microsoft that will put Microsoft adCenter sponsored links and other ads on the Facebook site.  There are no financial terms available for the deal, which runs through 2009.
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Blogger Jobs - ProBlogger Job Boards  —  Are you looking for a Blogger for your blog?  —  Are you a blogger for hire, looking for a blogging job?  —  Today I'm proud to announce the ProBlogger Job Board - a place where bloggers for hire and those looking for them will meet.
Discussion: The Blog Herald and SYNTAGMA
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Mark Cuban's Sharesleuth Takes Business Reporting to Ethical Edge  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has one of the best named weblogs, Blog Maverick, because he is nothing if not a maverick in the technology, sports and online worlds.  He shepherded his Broadcast.com streaming multimedia company through …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
My Wiki is your wiki  —  I got this email this afternoon …
Discussion: DealBreaker.com
Eric Case / Google Code:
New GData API: Google Base  —  Post by Matthias Zenger, Software Engineer  —  We're excited to announce the availability of the Google Base data API, which lets you write applications that dynamically interact with Google Base.  You can insert, edit, or delete items programmatically …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Base API Released
Ryan Block / Engadget:
TiVo Series 3 beta box snapped in the wild!  —  It wasn't exactly a well kept secret that TiVo was beta testing its Series 3 boxes in select markets, but up until now there wasn't a man or woman brassy enough to break the NDA and snap some shots of the damned thing.  Behold, the Series 3 in the wild!
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Ben Drawbaugh / HD Beat:
Series 3 TiVo in the wild
Sony:
SONY MERGES QUALITY LCD TV WITH DESKTOP PC FOR A SLEEK COMBO  —  Combining the power of a PC with a quality LCD and stylish design, Sony today unveiled the new VAIO® LS1 TV/PC Combo.  —  Sleek, yet highly-functional, this new device compliments any room in the house where space is at a premium …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Sony's iMac-like Vaio VGC-LS1 announced, reviewed
Discussion: I4U News
razerzone.com:
Game On!  Microsoft and Razer Team Up to Rejuvenate PC Gaming Experience With New Peripherals  —  Microsoft Hardware and Razer meet growing demand for PC gaming devices.  —  Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Hardware and Razer USA Ltd. are turning up the heat …
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 …
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: CrunchGear and Shop Talk
Richard Ozerman / CrunchGear:
Verizon Treo 700w vs. Sprint 700wx Compared, With Video  —  Comparing the Sprint 700wx and the 700w from Verizon, they have the same connectors on the bottom, same dialpad and the same side buttons.  The 700wx is a bit more responsive and has more than double the program memory.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Xbox 360 and the game market, nine months later  —  Today is the nine-month anniversary of the Xbox 360's U.S. launch.  So how is Microsoft doing so far?  The simplest and most common measure is the number of consoles sold — about 5 million Xbox 360s worldwide as of June 30 …
Tim Berners-Lee / www-128.ibm.com:
developerWorks Interviews:  —  Originator of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium talks about how far we've come, and about the challenges and opportunities ahead  —  Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@w3.org), Director, World Wide Web Consortium  —  Tim Berners-Lee is the originator …
 
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Dave Coustan / Earthling:
Who's Got Our Back?  —  Robert Scoble points out today …
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Google Blogoscoped:
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Kevin Hale / Particletree RSS Digest:
Getting IE 6 on your Mac
Darren Murph / Engadget:
ATI releases TV Wonder 650 OTA HDTV tuner card
Discussion: HDBlog.net and CrunchGear
Mike / Techdirt:
The RIAA's Last Profitable Business Model: Automated Extortion?
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Web Platform Primer - what's available via API?
Tara Yingst / synaptics.com:
Synaptics and Pilotfish Collaborate to Develop Next Generation Mobile Phone Concept
Discussion: MobileCrunch
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (923762)
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Seán Captain / Wired News:
3-D TV That Actually Works
Discussion: Gadgetell
IEBlog:
Details on our CSS changes for IE7
Alex Bosworth / Alex Bosworth's Weblog:
How To Provide A Web API
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb
Sean Alexander / Addicted to Digital Media:
SanDisk Sansa graduates, iPod Nano left behind or soon to skip a grade?
Think Secret:
Briefly: Leopard downloads prompt Apple retail firings
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DealBook:
Should Apple Buy YouTube?
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