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NBC Universal and News Corp. Announce Deal with Internet Leaders AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to Create a Premium Online Video Site with Unprecedented Reach — Charter Advertisers, Including Cadbury Schweppes, Cisco, Esurance, Intel and General Motors, Will Now Reach 96% of U.S. Internet Audience Through This Groundbreaking Venture
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Los Angeles Times:
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube — Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business. — News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today …
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Josh Bernoff / The Groundswell:
NBC/News Corp. site faces challenges — According to the LA Times, NBC and NewsCorp will create a shared destination site for their television and movie content. Sure, advertisers will get excited about the chance to sponsor the American Idol page on the site, so the motivation is obvious.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Cecile Daurat / Bloomberg:
News Corp., NBC Begin YouTube Rival to Reclaim Shows (Update1) — News Corp. and NBC Universal Inc. are leading a group of media companies building a rival to Google Inc.'s Youtube video-sharing Web site in an effort to loosen its grip on online programs. — News Corp. and NBC Universal …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:News Corp. and NBC announce partnership to create YouTube competitor
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Confirmed: TV Networks Launch New Company To Counter Perceived Google/YouTube Threat
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The Social Web
HP:
HP to Acquire Tabblo, Aims to Make Printing from Web Easier — HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tabblo Inc., a privately-held developer of web-based software located in Cambridge, Mass. — HP plans to leverage Tabblo's technologies to make printing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
HP goes web 2.0, buys Tabblo — Now this is one Web 2.0 acquisition that makes sense! Hewlett-Packard has acquired Tabblo, Massachusetts-based company that makes it easier for consumers to upload and printing their photos from the web. Think of Tabblo as iPhoto rest of us …
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BBC:
Xbox Live accounts 'not hacked' — Microsoft has denied reports that users of its Xbox Live online gaming service have had their accounts hacked. — It follows a number of complaints from gamers that their IDs, or gamer tags, have been taken over while playing.
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Zero Day, Cathode Tan, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget, You NEWB, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Joystiq and digg
Nokia:
Nokia N95 multimedia computer starts shipping — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 started shipping in key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets, with expanded shipments to other markets in those regions in the coming weeks. The Nokia N95 is an all-in-one multimedia computer …
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Yahoo! Widgets Blog:
It's Here! — Yes! Yahoo Widgets 4 is now available for download. This version has a lot of cool new features for users as well as developers of Widgets. — For those that think we've been sitting around drinking tequila and not really focusing on Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Appoints New Click Quality Czar — I've always believed that click fraud was a bigger PR problem than actual problem for the search engines. Of course there have been raging debates about the percentage of "invalid clicks" that advertisers were receiving and what the click fraud numbers actually are.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Best Buy finagles Apple TV exclusive — The blue-shirted ones scored a mini coup this week. — Best Buy said today that the just-released Apple TV will be available in all 822 of its U.S. stores starting Tuesday. That's two weeks ahead of all other retailers that are not named the Apple Store.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Did Google turn down the revenue knob? — Tonight at Jeff Pulver's awesome party I met a Google employee who I'll keep nameless. He works closely with the advertising team and found it interesting that I noticed that Google is putting fewer advertisements on each page than its competitor.
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Search Marketing Gurus, Online Spin, Business 2.0 Beta, Joe Duck and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Microsoft exec heads new search and ad unit — Microsoft will try a new combination of leadership and organizational structure to lift its Internet search business out of the cellar. — The company on Wednesday named Satya Nadella, an executive in charge of Microsoft's line of business software …
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Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick — When it comes to grabbing the attention of Web surfers, advertising distributed via online video handily outpaces static image ads, according to a new DoubleClick report. — The company studied more than 300 online …
USA Today:
Jet passengers may not get to chat on cellphones after all — The once-highflying idea of letting passengers use their wireless phones on airplanes is about to be grounded. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the FCC drop its tentative plan to lift …
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Bridging the Computer-to-TV Divide — Today in The Times, I reviewed the Apple TV box-and, for context, a couple of its rivals from Microsoft and Netgear. — Let me tell you, I haven't worked so hard on a column in a very, very long time. — The first problem was just getting them to work.
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NewTeeVee, Michael Gartenberg, Urlocker On Disruption, IP Democracy and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Matthew G. Nelson / ClickZ:
IAC's Horan Talks Integration — At his keynote address today at the Kelsey Group's Drilling Down on Local '07 event in Santa Clara, Ca., Peter Horan, the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp Media and Advertising, explained his approach to managing his business is to focus on the customer perspective …
