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Wall Street Journal:
EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio — EBay Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire StumbleUpon Inc., an Internet company that helps people discover Web pages that match their interests, according to people familiar with the matter. — The potential price for a deal is in the range of $75 million, these people say.
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Phil Rosenthal / Chicago Tribune:
Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder job site — Microsoft Corp., has bought a minority equity stake in CareerBuilder.com, the online job site owned by Tribune Co., Gannett Co. and McClatchy Co., the companies announced today. — Microsoft is acquiring 4 percent of CareerBuilder, sources said.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
"Psychic" Uri Geller sued after trying to remove critical YouTube clip — We've all heard about wacky attempts to misuse the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's "takedown" sections recently. There's been the Digg.com flap over a certain hex number beginning with "09 F9," …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:EFF to psychic: There will be a DMCA abuse suit in the near future
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Microsoft Flies A Blimp Into Second Life — Mysterious news on the Millions of Us blog this evening: it seems there's now a Microsoft island in the virtual world of Second Life. At least, that's what the »teleport link« in the blog entry implies.
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Microsoft Help and Support:
The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer … SYMPTOMS — Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection.
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look - Google Print Ads Now Part of AdWords — We've looked around and we're pretty confident that Marketing Pilgrim has the first screenshots of Google Print integrated with AdWords. — Using the AdWords console, advertisers can select the following: — Date range for ads to run.
Gizmodo:
Hands On: Treo 755 Hands On with Sprint EVDO, Palm OS, and Google Maps — Here's the deal on the Palm Treo 755: It's a 750 generation variant, running on Palm OS and Sprint instead of Windows Mobile and AT&T/Cingular/Whatever. That means its got that Sprint EVDO we know and love …
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Microsoft:
Bill Gates: Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 — Transcript of Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation — Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 — JOANNE BRADFORD [Corporate Vice President and Chief Media Officer, Microsoft Corporation]: Good morning, good morning.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Incremental Blogger and Digital Daily
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age — Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels - similar to how users can already create radio stations based on their music tastes.
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AppScout, Download Squad, Mashable!, Listening Post, The Next Net, franticindustries, WebProNews and i-boy
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Introducing NewTeeVee Pier Screenings! — Online video is great, but it's such a solitary experience. This summer we're going to try a little experiment — getting us off our butts and around from behind our screens. Maybe even outdoors. — On a pier overlooking the San Francisco Bay …
Reuters:
Yahoo to shut down auction site — Internet media company says June 16 will be last day to bid or buy from the auction site. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Yahoo has told users it will shut down its North American Web auction site, the second service the world's most visited Internet media company has set to retire in the past week.
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The Browser
James Quintana Pearce / mocoNews.net:
Rumor: Ericsson Looking To Buy Motorola — This is very much a "rumors are rife" story, so take it as such: Ed Snyder at Charter Equity Research has allegedly claimed that two of the main shareholders in Motorola told him that Carl Icahn has spread rumours that Ericsson is looking to buy Motorola …
Pat Phelan / Roam4free:
Want to earn $135,000 a year? come work for us — Having recently completed our first round of funding we are now looking for our first senior hire. — The below advert will be in Ireland's business papers on Friday. If you feel you qualify drop me a line with the relevant documents.
Phil Windley's Technometria:
Web Science: Do We Need a New Discipline? — I'm in a panel at WWW2007 on Web Science, essentially a proposal for a new discipline. The field would be interdisciplinary, taking things from areas as diverse as sociology, physics, biology, law, and psychology, as well as the areas …
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Between the Lines
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
War Of The People Search — I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three "people search engines" - the CEO of Wink (Michael Tanne), the CEO of Spock (Jaideep Singh), and the COO of Zoominfo (Bryan Burdick). — The panel was very timely.
Microsoft:
Microsoft SQL Server "Katmai" Builds on Proven Success of SQL Server 2005, Empowering Customers to Manage the Data Explosion — Vision for next release of SQL Server announced at Microsoft's first Business Intelligence Conference. — Today at the first Microsoft Business Intelligence …
