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biz.yahoo.com:
Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire WebEx — Acquisition Furthers Cisco's Vision for Enabling Collaboration in the SMB Market — SAN JOSE, CA and SANTA CLARA, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—Mar 15, 2007 — Cisco (NasdaqGS:CSCO - News) and WebEx today announced a definitive agreement for Cisco to acquire WebEx.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cisco Buys WebEx for $3.2 Billion — News is just breaking that Cisco has agreed to aquire WebEx for $3.2 billion in cash. In 2006, WebEx generated nearly $50 million in profit on $380 million in revenue. They have $300 million or so in cash on hand, so the net deal value is $2.9 billion.
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John Chow dot Com, Collaborative Thinking, The Browser, Guardian Unlimited, Ryan Stewart and 24/7 Wall St.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Cisco bought WebEx for $3.2 billion? — Cisco Systems announced this morning that it is buying web conferencing company, WebEx for $3.2 billion - another sign of the router maker's ongoing software makeover. For the price of two YouTubes, Cisco just bought a company that had sales of $380 million …
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Connecting the Dots, Tech Beat, reBang weblog, All Points Blog and All about Microsoft
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco serves up $3.2 billion to buy WebEx — update Cisco Systems plans to spend $3.2 billion to buy online conferencing company WebEx, the companies said Thursday. — The WebEx software and hosted service, which allows for on-demand collaboration between businesses …
Cisco PR / News@Cisco Notes:
Cisco Chief Development Officer Giancarlo on WebEx Acquisition — Charlie Giancarlo is Cisco's Chief Development Officer and President, Linksys. His full bio here. (.pdf document) — Today, we announced Cisco's agreement to acquire WebEx Communications, Inc. We feel strongly …
Waxy.org:
Tracking Twitter's Message Growth — By now, everyone knows that Twitter exploded at SXSW and everybody's seen the Alexa charts. But this is mostly a mobile app, so pageview traffic is only part of the story. How fast is Twitter really growing? — I decided to find out by using Twitter's …
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Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Twits Twittering for the sake of Tweets: or that's not why I twitter — Remember this? Probably many don't, but I've been a member of Twitter, since last May or June. Previous to Jabber integration. Previous to the funky tricked out personal landing page. Previous to the vowels.
Matbalez / web1979:RIP Twitter (2007-2007) — I make no bones about my disdain for Twitter.
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Deep Jive Interests, Web Worker Daily, Infocult, Dumpster Bust, Thoughts on VoIP, technology, blackrimglasses.com and digg
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Google exec confirms phone in the labs — So it seems that the oft-rumored handset from Google has taken that final leap into the "confirmed" column, though it may not be quite the be-all, end-all device we were expecting. Isabel Aguilera, Google's chief executive in Spain and Portugal …
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comScore:
comScore Announces New "Visits" Metric For Measuring User Engagement comScore Media Metrix Releases February Top 50 Web Rankings and Analysis Valentine's Day-Driven Increases Seen at Flowers, Gifts and Greetings Sites; — Entertainment News Sites Benefit from Oscars Interest
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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Folding@home saves the world (via PlayStation 3) March 23rd — Coupled with some glowing press about the admittedly impressive specs of the PlayStation 3's Cell processor comes news that the console's long promised Folding@home client will be using all those leftover processing cycles on March 23rd.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Adds a Safeguard on Privacy for Searchers — Web search companies collect records of the searches that people conduct, a fact that has long generated fears among privacy advocates and some Internet users that valuable personal data could be misused. — Now Google is taking a step to ease those concerns.
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Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Offers First ExpressCard By Novatel Wireless To Take Advantage Of New Faster Wireless Broadband Network — V740 ExpressCard Features Superior Wireless Broadband Connectivity for Verizon Wireless Customers — Media Contact Info — Townsend Inc. for Novatel Wireless, Inc.
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video... SXSW Interactive had more attendees than ever before. A lot more. But here's the confusing part: the people attending are the same people who create and evangelize the tools that make attending totally unnecessary.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Are Web Interfaces "Good Enough"? — µTorrent, my favorite BitTorrent client, now offers a web UI. See if you can spot the differences between the Web UI and the Windows UI: — After spending about a year interacting with µTorrent exclusively through Remote Desktop …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft probes possible IE 7 phishing hole — Microsoft is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could help cybercrooks launch phishing scams, the company said Wednesday. — An attacker can use an error message displayed by the latest Microsoft browser …
