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New York Times:
Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion — Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.
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Business Wire:
Google to Acquire DoubleClick — Combination Will Significantly Expand Opportunities for Advertisers, Agencies and Publishers and Improve Users' Online Experience — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG - News) announced today a definitive agreement …
Ben Ames / InfoWorld:
Intel expected to launch new UMPC platform — The company is rumored to be announcing its entry into the nascent small-notebook market at the IDC — Business analysts at Intel's technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Future of Intel's ultramobile PC? — Update: Infoworld has a long piece on Intel's pending announcement. … Interesting video that outlines what the future of UMPC might actually look like - or at least that's the vision. This could be coming soon... in Beijing next week...who knows!
AppleInsider:
Apple's iPod may gain Wi-Fi by holidays — Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi during the second half of 2007, according to a report at DigiTimes, the same publication which first reported that Apple would be forced to push out Leopard's release until October.
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BBC:
Net reaches out to final frontier — A programme to kick-start the use of internet communications in space has been announced by the US government. — The Department of Defense's Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009. — It will allow voice …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Shannon Terry Is Pissed Off, Threatens Lawsuit Against TechCrunch — I just received the letter below by email, in reference to my previous post on Shannon Terry and Rivals.com. I'm not going to make a statement on this just yet - our lawyers are involved and have advised me to keep quiet for now.
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Electronics to Release Duo Hd Player — Seoul, Korea - April 13, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., a leader in consumer electronics and digital media technologies, and the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player will introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the holidays.
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Crave, Digital World, Engadget, mocoNews.net, Gizmodo, TechSpot News, CrunchGear and digg
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:Software HD-DVD/Blu-ray Players Updated
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Cybercrooks exploiting new Windows DNS flaw — Cybercrooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack computers running the operating systems, Microsoft warned late Thursday. — The attacks target Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 systems through …
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BBC:
Leopard delayed by Apple iPhone — The next release of Apple's operating system, OS X, is being delayed by four months. — Scheduled to appear in mid-June, the new version of the Mac software, codenamed Leopard before now, will instead be released in October.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:Apple's Leopard still plagued by lengthy bug list
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Warner Music wants unprotected albums off Web site — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Music Group on Thursday demanded that online retailer AnywhereCD remove its digital albums from the site, saying the start-up had violated their agreement by selling Warner's music without copy protection software.
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Papers are said to plan Yahoo deal expansion — A dozen companies that own about 250 daily newspapers are preparing to expand a ground-breaking partnership with Yahoo Inc. to share advertising and editorial content, several newspaper executives familiar with the situation said.
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The Local Onliner, Wall Street Journal, paidContent.org, mydigimedia, Romenesko and Online News Squared
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Why Google Is Offering 411 Service — I haven't seen a lot of people connecting the dots between Google's recent announcement of 411 service and Microsoft's acquisition of Tellme. — Now obviously, there's one connection in that both are plays in local search, and it's certainly true …
Lifehacker:
Google Earth adds hiking trails — Want to scout out some hikes before your next trip? Google Earth's new layer has hundreds of them. — Specifically, the Trimble Outdoors Trips layer features GPS-marked trails for activities including hiking, biking, backpacking and running.
Lifehacker:
LH Top 10: Free Computer System Recovery Tools — Your data's trapped on a dead computer. You lost your login password. You never wrote down the product key on a non-working Windows installation. Your Mac won't start. — Don't pay the extortionists at the computer repair shop 800 bucks …
Jayson Otke / newscenter.philips.com:
Philips to acquire Digital Lifestyle Outfitters, a leading supplier of accessories for mobile devices — Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Charleston, South Carolina - Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) today announced that Philips will acquire US-based Digital Lifestyle Outfitters …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Report Says the Young Buy Violent Games and Movies — A surge in online promotion and the proliferation of unrated DVDs has eroded the entertainment industry's promise not to entice youth with violent fare, according to a Federal Trade Commission report on the marketing of violence to teenagers.
