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experiangroup.com:
Acquisition of Hitwise — Experian, the global information solutions company, announces that it has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company, which helps clients monitor the performance of their websites and target their online advertising spend more effectively.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Hitwise Acquired by Experian for $240 Million — All of those great charts that Hitwise so freely provide us, have paid off big time for the web intelligence company. Information services provider Experian has announced their cash purchase of Hitwise for $240 million.
BBC:
Microsoft aims to double PC base — Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users. — The firm wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015. — Governments in developing countries …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People — Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Microsoft Unlimited Potential program - Windows and Office for $3
Times of London:
MySpace takes on Google News and Digg — MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure. — This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday
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Ubuntu Releases:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) — Select an image — Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below. — Desktop CD — The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Cho-TV, day 2 — When it came out yesterday that Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, had sent 23 QuickTime videos to NBC in NY, that changed forever how I thought about blogging, video, podcasting, etc. When I first put up the post, Steve Garfield sent an email saying he didn't think it was vlogging, but I'm not so sure.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Dell brings back XP on home systems — update Dell is bringing XP back. — Amid significant customer demand, the computer maker said on Thursday that it has returned to offering the older Windows version as an option on some of its consumer PCs. — Like most computer makers …
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Is the pen still mighty in the computer age? — Your grandchildren may use a stylus on a tablet PC instead of a Bic on tablet paper, but they will continue to write. — That's because even in an era when elementary school students are adept at mousing and teenagers are fiends at text-messaging …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons — More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data.
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CNNMoney.com:
Google gets its groove back — World's top search engine reports strong increase in sales and profits that beat expectations, stock soars — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said profits soared nearly 70 percent in the first quarter on the back of solid sales growth …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Amazon sues Statsaholic...Web as Platform is Bullsh*t — Update: see filing embedded in this post. — Amazon just dug its own grave, I think. At least in the world of web services, it's going to be hard to save its reputation. — You see, while Amazon used the Web 2. Expo as a platform …
BBC:
Colour barcode system to hit DVDs — A colour barcode system holding more data than current codes will find its way onto DVDs later this year. — The four and eight-colour geometric patterns can hold up to two-pages of data, double the amount of traditional black and white, striped barcodes
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The Blog is the New Resume — Bokardoan Adam Darowski suggests that the blog is the new resume. I think he's absolutely right...whenever anyone wants to know anything about me I send them here. — This immediately brings several things to bear: — Your blog represents you. — Represent!
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Outlook 2007: downgrade no longer — Search used to be horrible in Outlook. It was so bad that for all intents and purposes, you couldn't search your old email. Instead, you were encouraged to carefully sort it out into a hierarchy of folders (shudder). — A bunch of third party fixes appeared.
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