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Sam Gustin / New York Post:
YOUTUBE'S GOT A FAT IDEA OF ITSELF — INTERNET upstart YouTube, the bane-du-jour of copyright holders everywhere, won't sell itself for anything less than $1.5 billion, The Post has learned. — But that number far exceeds the price top media execs appear willing to pay for a company many believe lacks a sustainable business model.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube's Magic Number - $1.5 Billion — I spoke with NYPost writer Sam Gustin for a few minutes last night as he was preparing an article on YouTube. His article is now up - you can see it here. The most interesting part of the conversation was when Sam told me that a source …
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Washington Post:
HP CEO Allowed 'Sting' of Reporter — Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Mark V. Hurd approved an elaborate "sting" operation on a reporter in February in an attempt to plug leaks to the media, according to an e-mail message sent by HP Chairman Patricia C. Dunn.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
H. P. Investigators Sought Meeting With Top Leaders — Investigators at Hewlett-Packard sought a meeting last January with the chief executive and the chairwoman to describe internal efforts to trace news leaks and get their leaders' advice, according to e-mail exchanges between the investigators and a senior company lawyer.
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights — Comment No more backups, or Tivo — THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more.
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Backing up and restoring licenses — Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses). However, depending upon where your protected files came from, you might be able to restore your rights over the Internet.
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Saskia Scholtes / Financial Times:
Market gossip goes high-tech — Market gossip is to take on a more high-tech form thanks to a new automated system that will trawl through more than 40m internet sources - from blogs to regulatory filings - on behalf of hedge funds. — Due for an official launch early next year …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
A look inside the Monitor110 research suite — I know what I want for Christmas. It's going to be expensive, but Monitor110 is already making beta testers money. It's a real time research suite tracking RSS, deep web, static web changes and many other sources with multiform alerts …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Will Yahoo's stock price kill acquisition of Facebook? Facebook IPO? — Yahoo has been in talks to acquire the college social networking site, Facebook, for up to $1 billion, according to the WSJ. — But the article doesn't raise the obvious question about Yahoo's plunging stock price …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Facebook And Yahoo In Acquisition Talks for $1 billion?
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Kevin Poulsen / 27B Stroke 6:
ATM Hack Uncovered — A security expert in New York has learned how to get free money from some ATMs by entering a special code sequence on the PIN pad. — Last week, news reports circulated about a cyber thief who strolled into a gas station in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and …
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Dave G. / Matasano Chargen:ATM Backdoor... Why is no one talking about this?
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Trulia Expands, Gets Local — Trulia's housing search engine will be a year old this week, and the San Francisco-based company is releasing a big batch of upgrades that should make it a worthy player in the real estate market. Until now, Trulia's claim to fame was being one of the first companies …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype backer takes on ETrade with free trades — Morten Lund, the guy who was the earliest backers of Skype is at it again. He has financed Zecco, a start-up that will allow consumers to trade stocks for zero commissions, versus $10 to $20 that many online brokers charge today.
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web Sites — As part of the battle against the spread of child pornography on the Internet, an initiative has begun allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites offering illicit images of minors, even in cases where no criminal investigation is being conducted.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
Side Effects of Anonymous Attack Blogging — So it turns out the guy who anonymously writes dead2.0, an occasionally insightful attack blog, has been identified. He's a VP at a startup that we'd cover at TechCrunch and CrunchGear, and that I lean towards liking.
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Apple's Mac OS Market Share Rises 24 Percent Year Over Year — Several outlets this week have reported that Apple's market share is declining or has flattened out, especially when compared to December 2005 data. At first glance it may appear so but there's more to the story and the data.
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Lessons From the Facebook Riots — Earlier this month, the popular social networking site Facebook learned a hard lesson in privacy. It introduced a new feature called "News Feeds" that shows an aggregation of everything members do on the site, such as added and deleted friends …
Beckie Edwards / Consumerist:
Cingular's One-Way Contract — Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking her to voluntarily discontinue her service …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Disney chief talks up Apple's iTV media hub — After playing with a pre-production unit, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger says Apple's forthcoming iTV streaming media hub is a "compelling" device that will change the way people enjoy and share their video content.
