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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom — Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.
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Business Wire:
Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing — Leading Venture Capital Firms and Content Owners Support Joost's Global Expansion — Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS Corporation and Viacom Participate in Round — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Joost&trade …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Skype founders raise $45m in Joost funding — Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service. — Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube …
Molly Graham / Google LatLong:
A new world unfolding — Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps — Welcome to the Google "geo" blog. As web mapping (dare I say "the geoweb"?) matures, we're finding that we have a lot more to communicate about new developments in Earth, Maps, Local, and our APIs.
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PC World:
Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PC World — Had resigned in dispute with CEO Colin Crawford over editorial independence. Crawford to return to prior IDG post. — Ramon G. McLeod, Editor, PCWorld.com — In a surprise announcement, Robert Carrigan, president of IDG Communications …
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO — In a surprise reversal, IDG management removed Colin Crawford as PC World's CEO and reinstated Harry McCracken as Editor in Chief, after a dispute over a canceled Apple story led McCracken to quit. A memo just sent to PC World and Macworld staffers …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast's Brian Roberts, Broadband's Tomorrow Man — Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., in a move reminiscent of Microsoft's Bill Gates' futuristic announcements at CES, today showed off a new modem that uses channel bonding technology that can pump data into your homes at speeds of 150 megabits per second.
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Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:Comcast CEO shows off super quick modem
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup — First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! — Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Gates sees accelerated decline of traditional media's ad model — Microsoft thinks the advertising business model for traditional media — those venues where advertisers still channel most of their spending — will fall apart faster in the coming five years as the kind of interactive …
Dale Nardozzi / previews.teamxbox.com:
First Look at Crackdown Downloadables (Xbox 360) — Crackdown began its life as an open sandbox game from former Grand Theft Auto gurus, spent its mid-life as a marketing experiment for Halo 3, and is kicking back as one of the best Xbox 360 games to date. But this critically-acclaimed sci …
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Java Security Traps Getting Worse — Updated: At JavaOne last year, Fortify's Brian Chess discussed how to avoid Java security holes. A year later, with even Sun's manuals containing code with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, we're actually worse off than ever.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers — Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday. — R. Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson professor of business …
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David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:
World Wide Web of Widgets — The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we're discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provided by Yahoo Widgets or Microsoft's Vista widgets.
Emily Bell / Guardian Unlimited:
Guardian Unlimited - the next step — From today Guardian Unlimited's network homepage takes on a new look as we release the next part of our new design. — Those of you who use our travel site will be familiar with the wider pages, greater use of pictures and the flexibility of our new design.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain — Details are just coming out, but New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams' Odeo. The announcement will come sometime tomorrow. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash.
