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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. We're hearing that there is also an earn-out for up to an additional $50 million.
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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:
Photobucket Was A Steal v. Google/YouTube — By almost any measure, MySpace got Photobucket for an absolute steal when compared to the Google YouTube deal. The companies are somewhat comparable - both have very large libraries of user-created videos, and both built their business on the back of MySpace.
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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 …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Fox Interactive Nears Deal to Buy Photobucket — Photobucket, a four-year-old, rapidly growing Web company, is in advanced talks to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a division of the News Corporation, a person briefed on the negotiations said Monday. — Photobucket allows its users …
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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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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is the Web half full or half empty? — Lots of chat out there about the latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb. These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with them — you know they weren't cooked up by marketing types to sell more banner ads.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Record shops: Used CDs? Ihre papieren, bitte! — There are a few things lawmakers have decided really ought to be handled with the "care and oversight" that only the government can provide: e.g., tax collection, radioactive materials, biohazards, guns, and CDs. CDs?
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here — Remember last week's kerfuffle over whether the movie industry could own random 128-bit numbers? (If not, here's some background: 1, 2, 3) — Now, thanks to our newly developed VirtualLandGrab technology, you can own a 128-bit integer of your very own.
DigiTimes:
Production cost of PS3 could be cut by US$100 — As blue-laser pick-up heads (PUHs) for use in the PlayStation 3 (PS3) are expected to increase in supply and decrease in price, the production cost of the game console could be reduced by as much as US$100, according to Taiwan-based makers of game consoles and components.
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OpenID at Work — On both the Internet and behind the firewall, the identity problem gets uglier every year. How many passwords do you have? If you're in IT, how much pain do you go through getting your all your apps to share a notion of who someone is?
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Top 15 Web 2.0 Startups in Europe? — Here is the list of the top 15 European Web 2.0 projects, which will be presented next Thursday in Madrid. The information below was provided to me by the organizers: — Panoramio.com (http://www.panoramio.com): Photo-sharing of geolocated photos.
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Luke Jerod Kummer / New York Times:
A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write — While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink. — John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free weekday daily introduced last month …
Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
Yahoo: Forget About Microsoft; Maybe Google Should Make A Bid; or eBay; or Comcast; or... The reports that Microsoft (MSFT) might acquire Yahoo (YHOO) have faded, but the Street is still mulling over the possibilities. J.P. Morgan's Imran Khan, for instance, makes the eye-opening suggestion that …
