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Valleywag:
Exclusive: Photobucket goes to Myspace — Like a squabbling couple finally realizing they can't live without eachother — or a parasite fusing with its host — Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation's social network. The photo sharing service …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: MySpace To Acquire Photobucket For $250 Million — Apparently an overzealous Photobucket employee is the source of this rumor, but we've confirmed it with more senior people: MySpace is acquiring Photobucket for $250 million in cash. — Photobucket has been looking for a buyer since March …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Breaking: Photobucket Acquired By MySpace (Update: Confirmed) — UPDATE: See also MySpace and Photobucket: Timeline of Events — UPDATE 2: upgrading this from rumor to fact. Price is in the range of the $300 million PB was looking for. — It's the deal you never thought would happen …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
MySpace + Photobucket makes sense to me — Given the source, we should probably take this with a rather large container of salt, but Valleywag says that Photobucket is about to be acquired by MySpace. Rumour or not, this makes a lot of sense to me — a whole lot more sense than Microsoft and Yahoo, last week's favourite rumour.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide — Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft had been tinkering with Windows Live Mail for months, but testers still weren't happy. — The program was too slow to load, too different and, well, just not like the old Hotmail it was intended to replace. — It was a painful realization for the more than 100 managers and developers on the project.
Business Wire:
Samsung Unveils the Q1 Ultra, the Next Stage in the Evolution of Ultra Mobile Personal Computing — Increased Battery Life and Advanced Features in a Smaller, More Portable Form Factor — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a global leader in digital media …
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jkOnTheRun, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Engadget, GottaBeMobile.com, Mobility Site, Gizmodo and Office Evolution
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
NBC Universal sides against YouTube in piracy suit — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.'s online video sharing site YouTube, according to papers filed in court.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite — Comcast plans to launch SmartZone, a major replacement for its current and uninspired consumer email service. At the core of SmartZone is a new version of Zimbra's open source, brower-based collaborative suite that includes email, instant messaging and voice mail access.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
A Chat with Aaron Swartz — Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog.
Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Dell plan aids Novell effort with Microsoft — Linux, Windows will both work on servers — The controversial alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Linux software vendor Novell Inc. has a new member: computer maker Dell Inc. — Dell will disclose today that it will team up with Novell …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority — The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released the findings of a new survey of 4,001 U.S. adults that segments Americans into a range of groups based on usage of and attitudes toward the Internet and mobile phones.
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Between the Lines, textually.org, rexblog.com, Screenwerk, Digital Daily, Traffick and ProHipHop
benedelman.org:
How Spyware-Driven Forced Visits Inflate Web Site Traffic Counts — The usual motive for buying spyware popup traffic is simple: Showing ads. Cover Netflix's site with an ad for Blockbuster, and users may buy from Blockbuster instead. Same for other spyware advertisers.
Mark Ward / BBC:
Beating Warcraft at its own game — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — With more than eight million subscribers, World of Warcraft dominates the online gaming market but some strong rivals are gearing up to take it on. — Gaute Godoger, game director at Funcom …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don't. — Superman has the power to leap tall buildings. But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier. — Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile devices based on the popular Superman television show, "Smallville."
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty — PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.
