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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 …
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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 …
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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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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.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Base API Released — Google released the Google Base Data API. This allows you to programmatically create new items, and edit or delete existing ones. You can also query for items with specific attributes. The API is REST-based (you'll be accessing Atom XMLs through parametrized URLs.)
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Eric Case / Google Code:New GData API: Google Base
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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.
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).
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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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John Cook's Venture Blog
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 …
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.
