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Howard Lindzon:
CBS Acquires Wallstrip - You Can Make Money From Blogging!!! — One of the most exciting days of my life for sure. — Today, CBS has acquired Wallstrip . — Lot's of people to thank. The biggest sacrifices have come from my wife Ellen and my sweet kids Rachel and Max. My dog Bagel is indifferent.
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Social Media Club, rexduffdixon.com, Digital Inspiration, Information Arbitrage and duncanriley.com
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
CBS Does Indeed Scoop Up Wallstrip — Wallstrip, an online video show that takes a whimsical approach to financial news, has been bought by CBS Interactive for a price in the single-digit millions, with a multi-year commitment to continue the show and add additional financially oriented web series.
Fred / A VC:
Wallstrip Goes Through The Exit Door — CBS announced today that they are purchasing Wallstrip. — Here's the story as I see it. Howard Lindzon is a scrappy investor and sometimes entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona. He got hip to blogging several years ago and started networking around via blogs.
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HipMojo.com
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Proposes Innovation in Radio Spectrum Auction — Google filed a proposal on Monday with the Federal Communications Commission calling on the agency to let companies allocate radio spectrum using the same kind of real-time auction that the search engine company now uses to sell advertisements.
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Bourse:
Google Submits Novel Approach To FCC For Radio Spectrum Use — By Corey Boles Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) Monday urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to think outside the box in designing the rules for its upcoming auction of radio spectrum.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Meme: Hot Trends Added To Google Trends — Google has launched a meme-like feature to Google Trends. The Google Trends home page now has a section named "Hot Trends," which shows the hottest queries for the day. You can also look back historically and see the hottest queries for that day.
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eWEEK.com, 10e20, Search Engine Roundtable, Google Operating System, parislemon and gSpy
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Legless Chihuahuas Prove Google Hot Trends Not So Hot — Google has launched a new addition to its growing lineup of...well everything, Google Hot Trends. — Google Trends takes the idea behind Google Zeitgeist to the next level. Instead of providing weekly details of top Google searches …
Lisa Gade / MobileTechReview.com:
Where to Buy — The Wing is the follow-up to the popular but now aging T-Mobile MDA that was released in February 2006. Keeping the same basic design with QWERTY side-slideout keyboard that made the MDA so popular, the Wing refines a good thing by reducing thickness, adding spring assist to the slider …
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Engadget Mobile
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now — Silicon Valley is paradise for geeks, and people flock here from all over the world to be part of something very special. When I speak at events here one thing I often do is ask people in the audience to raise their hand if they live in Silicon Valley.
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BoomTown, franticindustries, rexduffdixon.com, Business Week, NevilleHobson.com and Mark Evans
BBC:
Success for Everest mobile effort — A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. — In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain's north ridge. — In the first call Mr Baber described the view …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Zoho Notebook looks good — Zoho, the online competitor to Microsoft office, releases its Zoho Notebook application later this evening, and it looks very good. — It edges Microsoft's competing product OneNote, and Google's Notebook with sheer feature count and flexibility.
Jeremy Dunham / IGN:
Limited Edition for Creed — Ubisoft's Assassin gets the special treatment. — IGN has learned that Ubisoft will announce tomorrow the release of an all-new "limited edition" version of Assassin's Creed. Scheduled for shipment "later this year," Assassin's Creed Limited Edition …
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Ars Technica
gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:
The 3D air-mouse you wear as a ring — The computer mouse and flat "desktop" themed operating systems have hardly evolved since their inception. But the recent creation of a genuine, working 3D mouse system that you wear as a ring on one finger could open the door to a new model of GUI display …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Change.org 2.0: Harass Politicians and Fund Their Opponents — We covered the social activist community Change.org when they first launched back in February. The site is one of a few philanthropic startups tailoring the latest web features for non-profits and politics.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (937696) — Release of Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) and File Block Functionality for Microsoft Office — Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) feature …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Justin.TV Network Launches: More Shows to Come — 24/7 reality online TV show Justin.tv has has turned into a bit of a mini-phenomenon since launching just two months ago. Their apartment was raided by the police, and they were later evicted by their landlord. They were on the Today Show.
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
CNN to Deliver More Local News On Its Web Site — Content-Swap Deal — Will Raise User Traffic; — A Push for Ad Revenue — In a strategy shift, CNN, known primarily for national and international news, is expected to announce a deal that will allow it to offer more local news on its Web site and …
