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New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies — Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively. — Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
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New York Times:
An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little — Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far. — But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Demonstrates Further Commitment to Healthcare Market With Planned Acquisition of Web Search Company — Medstory's intuitive technology designed to improve access to health information and empower consumers to make better-informed health decisions.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push? — Microsoft actively targets more than a dozen major vertical markets when designing and developing products. Financial services, education, government, hospitality, manufacturing — all the usual suspects are represented. — Then there's healthcare.
Alan Saracevic / The Technology Chronicles:
Microsoft buys Medstory — You may remember a niche search company we wrote about last summer called Medstory. If not, here's the link. — Turns out that this smallish search start-up is hitting the big-time even sooner than we thought. Microsoft today announced it was acquiring …
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
comScore:
comScore Data Show Yahoo!'s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact on Sponsored Search Click-Through Rates — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of a study analyzing the changes in Yahoo!'s click-through rates for sponsored search ads since …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Yahoo Benefits from new Panama Advertising System
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Reuters
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities — No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity. — Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you — Earlier this month it was widely reported that EMI was indeed ready to cast DRM into the dark abyss and earn the company the honorable status of being the first major music label to realize that DRM alienates honest customers.
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Neowin.net
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Tony Walsh / Clickable Culture:
Big Boom in Metaverse Development — [Clickable Culture's RSS 2.0 feed is intended for your personal, non-commercial use.] — Third-party metaverse development firm The Electric Sheep Company, which creates content and services for virtual worlds such as Second Life and There has scored $7M USD …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center — I was lucky enough to get in on the Gmail beta when it launched and I haven't looked back since. Even though I've had an account for almost three years and I get over 100 emails a day, I have chewed up only 18% of the generous 2.8 gigabytes of storage.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
IRS goes after eBay, wants info on seller earnings — The IRS wants its money. That's why it has helpfully assembled a list of the most common excuses people use (PDF) for not paying their taxes. In case you weren't aware of it, a claim that "the 16th Amendment is invalid because it contradicts …
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The Blog Herald
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quintura Visual Search Engine Relaunches — At around 8 AM PST this morning, Moscow-based search engine Quintura will relaunch its visual search engine with a new user interface (if it looks like the screen shot below, it's launched). — The company, which is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners …
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John Battelle's Searchblog
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Linux users tell Ballmer to put his code where his mouth is — We're pumped for a real showdown in the upcoming months, since the Linux community has just launched Show Us the Code, a website / movement humoring Steve Ballmer's repeated claims of burgled Microsoft IP within the open source OS …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Entropy in Tagging Systems, Google's Office Killer and Conference Diversity — I'm almost caught up on my blog reading since getting back from vacation and I've spotted a couple of items I'd have blogged responses to if I was around. Since I don't have the time to write full blog posts …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube and Google Video Player in Google SERPs: This Is EVIL — Google caused some major controversy by prominently recommending Blogger to all users who searched for blog-related terms. So how will bloggers react now that Google is experimenting with Google Video and YouTube players in the search results themselves?
