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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network — LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding. — The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley's Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund (EFF), an internet focused firm …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Raises Nearly $13 Million More — Professional social network LinkedIn will announce a previously rumored $12.8 million round of financing on Monday, led by Bessemer and the European Founders Fund. The company, which has been profitable since March 2006, has raised $13.4 million …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe to send PDF to standards group — Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to governments and large corporations.
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Anna Sebestyén / Google Blogoscoped:
YouTube Sharing Revenue With Users — Goo(g)d news. Soon you will start generating money on YouTube. — How soon? We don't know. But Chad Hurley announced at World Economic Forum, Davos on 27 Jan that they would reward users for self-generated content, saying "We are getting …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:YOUTUBE: YOU WANT (GOOGLE'S) ADS WITH THAT?
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Vista "upgrade" drops compliance checking, requires old OS to install — Microsoft's quest to closely control the way Windows Vista can be used on PCs has taken a turn for the worse as new information indicates that the company is breaking tradition when it comes to Windows Vista upgrades.
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Anne Zelenka / Web Worker Daily:
27 TIPS FOR TELECONFERENCING — Whether you call them conference calls or telecons or excruciatingly dull time-wasters, multi-participant phone conversations are as important to most web workers as email. If you can't meet face to face or arrange video conferencing, the conference call is the next best thing.
USA Today:
Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal — NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands. — Among other things …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Wellsphere Launches Wellness 2.0 — Wellshpere is launching an alpha version of their wellness community site tomorrow. It joins a host of other health related search, training, and Q&A sites we've covered. Wellsphere is concerned with day-to-day sorts of health choices that make up …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Wellsphere, for those striving to be fit and healthy
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Paul Durman / Times of London:
Jilted tech boss tries hand at venture capital — DAN WAGNER, the entrepreneur who ran the Maid online information business in the 1990s, once turned down an opportunity to invest $1m (£510,000) for 30% of the fledgling Ebay — a stake that would now be worth many billions.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines — Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis. — Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google."
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Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Announcing the Media 2.0 Workgroup … The term "Web 2.0" has become a little worn out lately, but it has had an important and dramatic effect on our industry. It has spurred innovation, driven investment and ignited the imagination of the entrepreneurial community.
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
OpenID, Get it from Yahoo! & Avoid Phishing — OpenID, the lightweight, decentralized identity system (Radar post) had an interesting weekend. There is now a method for using your Yahoo ID with OpenID (unofficial, but sanctioned) and there are new measures designed to reduce the risk of phishing.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Startups Take on Amazon Reviews — While low prices and huge inventory are the main attraction at Amazon.com, the site's reviews have emerged as an essential online resource. Now, a new generation of start-ups wants to take on the shopping giant by spreading reviews across the web.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Toshiba's Portege R400 convertible goes on sale — If you somehow managed to skim through the CES mayhem and notice this gem, chances are it immediately landed on your wish list, and if you're looking for an ultralight, well-spec'd, EV-DO-equipped convertible tablet, here's your chance.
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Microsoft Office 2007 Review Part 2: What's New? — In this part of the review, I'd like to discuss two major changes to Office 2007 that affect the most commonly-used applications in the suite: the new Ribbon user interface and the new XML-based document formats.
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Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it — Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing for a patent on it that could prevent him from using it himself?
Google Blogoscoped:
Pondering Google's Project in Social Space — Google's Niniane Wang is currently leading a team of Googlers to develop a new product in the social application space. Details are unknown to outsiders as this is a top secret project, but a colleague of Niniane believes it's interesting enough …
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