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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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BBC:
Sounds bring Google Earth to life — As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. — A Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth, New Scientist reports.
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:
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.
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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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.
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.
Kate / Google LatLong:
Greensburg, Kansas, Tornado Imagery — Recently the town of Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by an F5 tornado and most of the town was destroyed. On May 7th one of our satellite providers, DigitalGlobe, jumped into action and gathered imagery of the region for search-and-rescue teams.
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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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.
