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Tristan Louis / The TNL.net weblog:
No Bubble 2.0 yet — The recent acquisition of YouTube by Google for a stunning $1.65 billion made me wonder whether we were seeing a rise in the price. While the New York Times sees a return to the crazy valuations of the 90s, a look at the acquisition landscape does not seem to support their conclusions.
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MSNBC:
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion — Search giant's purchase of video sharing service biggest in its history — SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution.
PR Newswire:
Salesforce.com Announces Apex, the World's First On-Demand Programming Language and Platform — For the first time, third parties will be able to write code that runs automatically on salesforce.com's multi-tenant, shared architecture — Apex will dramatically expand the reach, scope …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com's Apex: The morning tally — Now that salesforce.com's Apex programming language and platform has come out from behind the curtain, and the critiques are coming in. Prior to the open keynote at Dreamforce conference Moscone West in San Francisco this morning …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Introducing VentureBoard, a marketplace for start-ups — VentureBeat is pleased to introduce VentureBoard, a marketplace for the technology start-up community of Silicon Valley and other regions. — VentureBoard serves two main purposes, and we think it is particularly relevant for the post YouTube acquisition era.
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Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs — Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.
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Agence France Presse:
Web overtakes newspapers in Europe — LONDON (AFP) - The Internet has overtaken newspapers and magazines as Europeans' main source of news and feature-type information, according to a new study. — But television continues to be the dominant medium for most people, with Europeans spending three times …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Storing Music Tags in the Qloud — A small Washington D.C. startup named Qloud is beta-launching today a collaborative filtering system for music along the lines of Last.fm. If it can achieve critical mass, the startup wants to be a social search engine for music, built on users tagging …
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USA Today:
Liberty Media chief: Telecoms could take big hit in cable wars — NEW YORK — John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, says the coming cable-phone wars could turn out to be a bloodbath for AT&T and Verizon. — "Cable guys right now have a huge advantage," Malone told USA TODAY.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Will Voice-Enabled Mobile Search Kill Directory Assistance? — Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in 2010" and cause "a significant disruption of the directory assistance market." On one level, this is self-evident.
Adam Bennett / NEWS.com.au:
Laser TV unveiled — IT'S being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual technology - a laser television that will make plasma screens obsolete. — Soon-to-be-listed Australian company Arasor International and its US partner Novalux unveiled what they claimed to be the world's …
Palm:
Palm, Inc. Announces DigitalLife Press Conference on Oct. 12 — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Colligan today invites media to join him for a press conference at DigitalLife on Thursday, Oct. 12, to announce a new Treo(TM) product.
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Samsung's 10-megapixel cellphone in your (Korean) face — Remember that show-off from Samsung bragging about his 10-megapixel cellphone last March? Well, it's finally on sale in Korea (as of today) and it's one hell of an attention seeker. — As well as the huge pixel count …
Tom Green / Digital Web:
The Rise of Flash Video, Part 1 — In 2003, I was in Seattle getting ready to do a presentation on Flash Video at Digital Design World when Jim Heid, the Conference Organizer, saw the title slide of the presentation and mentioned that I might be facing a rather tough crowd.
Jack Slocum / Jack Slocum's Blog:
WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI — For quite some time I have wanted to upgrade my WordPress comments system. I had some free time yesterday so I decided to go through the WordPress internals and figure out how some of it worked. Before I knew what had happened, it was 3:00am and I had a working prototype.
John P. Falcone / Alpha.CNET.com:
Copy never: DRM 'glitch' keeps TiVo Series3, JVC A/V receivers from playing nice — Connecting a TiVo Series3 to a JVC A/V receiver via HDMI seems to awaken an otherwise dormant copy-protection feature in the DVR. At least, that's what happened during testing in the CNET Labs.
New York Times:
Venture Firm Shares a YouTube Jackpot — Even in Silicon Valley, it is rare for so much money to be made so fast — and by so few. — The biggest winners in the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube by Google are YouTube's founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who have parlayed their stakes …
Chris Roper / IGN:
Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed — It's official: From Aerosmith to the Rolling Stones to RATM, all 40 licensed tracks unveiled. — After a year of wishlists, speculation and even a bit of "slipped" information, RedOctane finally has revealed to us the final licensed tracklist for Guitar Hero II.
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