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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product — Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today. It's important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Tests an Ad Idea: Pay Only for Results — Google is experimenting with a new proposition for advertisers: if you don't get results, you don't pay. — The company said Tuesday that it would expand a test of a system that allows advertisers to pay only when an ad spurs a consumer to take an action …
Business Wire:
Oodle Raises $11 Million in Funding From JAFCO, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures — SAN MATEO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oodle, the new way to shop with classifieds, announced today that it has raised $11 million in funding from new investor JAFCO Ventures as well as from Greylock Partners …
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
Aftertaste — Mike Arrington, Tim Bray, and Jonathan Schwartz made for an interesting menage at Sun yesterday evening. As usual I wasn't invited, but Scoble was otherwise occupied and forwarded me the invite. To be fair, Sun doesn't know what to make of me.
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Cyrus Farivar / Wired News:
Google's Next-Gen of Sneakernet — How do you get 120 terabytes of data — the equivalent of 123,000 iPod shuffles (roughly 30 million songs) — from A to B? For the most part, the old-fashioned way: via a sneakernet. It's not glamorous, but Google engineers hope to at least end …
Variety:
New Line nabs 'Gears of War' — Studio wins rights to videogame — New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft and Epic Games' hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War," with Stuart Beattie penning the adaptation and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Google quashes mobile phone talk — Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone. — The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead. — Google's South-East Asia managing director of sales and operations …
James Quintana Pearce / PaidContent:
MMOGs Worth More Than $1 Billion In The West — A report by Screen Digest has found that massively multiplayer online games generated more than $1 billion in 2006 in the West (North America and Europe), notes the BBC. The report claims 87 percent of the revenue is from subscriptions …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Tool turns unsuspecting surfers into hacking help — A security researcher has found a way hackers can make PCs of unsuspecting Web surfers do their dirty work, without having to actually commandeer the systems. — That's possible with a new security tool called Jikto.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
U.S. judge throws out defamation suit against Google — SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the fairness of how Web search leader Google Inc. calculates the popularity of Web sites in determining search results, court papers show.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Feds to rehear Webcaster fee dispute — The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board has granted a series of requests for a rehearing on a contentious decision that would elevate royalty fees required of Internet radio services. — In a one-paragraph document issued Tuesday, Chief Copyright Royalty …
Diarmuid Mitchell / BBC:
Mobiles set to play the game — For years now senior games industry figures and media analysts have predicted that mobile phone games will revolutionise the industry. — The former head of Sony Europe Chris Deering has described mobile gaming as the "big kahuna", with 1 billion mobile phones worldwide poised to take up games.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
PreFound Relaunches, Tries To Rise Above Social Search Din — The term "social search" is kind of a catch-all category now for a range of companies that are bringing people back into the algorithm. Not only are these companies seeking to improve search results with humans …
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Associated Press:
Oops! Technician's error wipes out data for state fund … JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Perhaps you've experienced that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud — Microsoft is investigating possible fraud on its Xbox Live online gaming service, the company said Tuesday. — The investigation comes after gamers reported having their Xbox Live accounts hijacked and their credit cards used to buy "Microsoft Points …
USA Today:
PlayStation 3 is down 2-to-1 to Nintendo's Wii — Sony's new PlayStation 3 video game has gone from top dog to underdog in record time. — Despite the buildup and hype around its arrival in November, the PS3 has been outsold so far — at a rate of almost 2-to-1 — by the Nintendo Wii.
