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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google in Talks To Buy YouTube For $1.6 Billion — Deal Could Put Search Giant — In Top Spot for Online Video; — A Front Door for Web Visits — The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by Google Inc.
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Chris Gaither / Los Angeles Times:
Google Puts Lid on New Products — Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In another sign of Google Inc.'s growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company's top executives said Thursday …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
WSJ reports Google and YouTube are in acquisition talks — It looks like Michael Arrington's report last night that Google is in talks to acquire YouTube may have been more than what he called "40% likely to be at least partially true." The Wall St. Journal is reporting this morning …
LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Google YouTube Rumor - Hitwise Perspective — Today's rumor that Google might be buying YouTube strikes me as highly unlikely, but deserves some analysis. Firstly, how does YouTube's traffic compare to Google Video, and what effect did Google's replacing the Froogle link with Google Video have?
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Google to buy YouTube? Perfect match. — This makes total sense to me for a number of reasons: — Google's search business makes so much money that they could leave the YouTube service the way it is and make back their $1.6B in 6-7 years just by putting Google search boxes all over the site.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Google in Talks to Acquire YouTube for $1.6 Billion — Google is in serious talks to acquire YouTube, the wildly successful online video-sharing Web site, for $1.6 billion in cash and stock, people involved in the negotiations said today. — A deal would end an almost yearlong chess game among …
Paul Elias / Associated Press:
Google said in talks to buy YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion in cash and stock, according to published reports. — Mountain View-based Google and San Mateo-based YouTube …
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Carlo / Techdirt:Who Needs The Truth When We Can All Just Point At Each Other?
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Om Malik / GigaOM:YouTube, Google ... fuggedaboutit
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Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista RC2 is now available to technical beta testers! — Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the availability of Windows Vista RC2 to Technical Beta Testers, TAP Testers, and MSDN/TechNet subscribers. This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability …
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Bloomberg:
Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning (Update1) — Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project. — Google, the world's most-used search engine …
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Mike / Techdirt:Turns Out Putting Your Books On Google Does, Indeed, Help Sales
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Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
New Hot Spot For Tech Firms Is the Old One — Matt Sanchez was just the kind of entrepreneur that the new wave of the Web boom was supposed to spawn: one untethered by geography, able to locate his company anywhere there was broadband Internet connection and a good idea.
Business 2.0:
20 Smart Companies to Start Now — Howard Schultz, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, and other major investors are sharing their best startup ideas. And they're willing to give a collective $100 Million to the entrepreneurs who can make them happen. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Was MySpace Sold on the Cheap? — One of the site's co-founders offers new evidence that parent Intermix Media knew the $580 million it accepted from News Corp. was too low — When News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for Intermix Media, parent of social network MySpace.com, talk was he overpaid.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools — In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here's what I've discovered, followed by my requirements. — The List — I've evaluated exactly zero of these so far.
AppleInsider:
Apple prepares for Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro ramp — Apple Computer this month has begun to slow production of its existing Core Duo MacBook Pro professional notebooks ahead of refreshed models that will sport Intel Corp's higher-performance Core 2 Duo microprocessors, AppleInsider has learned.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Living the Promotional Life — CAN an affable 30-year-old conceptual artist turned comedian sell cars to his generation by using nontraditional media like blogs and Webisodes? — That is the multimillion-dollar question Nissan North America is asking as an unconventional campaign gets under …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Blue Dot Launches Partner Program, Adds DOS's MZ to Advisory Board — I took a trip to Seattle last night to attend the Venture All Stars event and catch up on the startup scene in the area. Robert Scoble was there too so watch for video interviews on Scobleshow in the future.
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