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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
F.T.C. Eyes Antitrust Action in Google DoubleClick Acquisition — In developing news, the NY Times is reporting that The Federal Trade Commission has "opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick".
New York Times:
Avaya Is Said to Be Exploring a Sale of All or Some of Itself — The telecommunications company Avaya is in negotiations to sell a part or all of itself, in what may be the latest round of deal making in its industry, executives briefed on the negotiations said last night.
Phil Butler / Read/WriteWeb:
Particls Launches Advanced Alerts Platform — Today Particls, billed by many as an RSS feed manipulator/organizer, came out of invitation-only testing with a host of tools for users. Particls essentially serves as a proportioning alert filter that notifies the user via news ticker …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? — Wow... it seems based on my last post that ESPN is, in fact, blocking their content on certain ISPs who won't PAY THEM! — This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of. for a number of reasons:
San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft — Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable — For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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Gadgetell, TechBlog, TechSpot News, Digital Daily, Digital Media Wire, Engadget, MobileWhack, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, I4U News and Neowin.net
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
Will ISPs spoil the online video party? — With an ever greater amount of video being consumed online, many Internet users are in for a shock. There's a dirty little secret in the broadband industry: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don't have the capacity to deliver the bandwidth that they claim to offer.
New York Times:
War Fears Turn to Cyberspace in Estonia — When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
Allison Randal / O'Reilly Radar:
Beyond the Browser — At OSBC last week I gave a Radar talk on current technology trends. The trend of moving traditional desktop applications to massively networked, Web 2.0 online applications like Google Docs is well-known. The problem is, a web browser is a terribly limited platform …
Dan Carney / Popular Science:
INVENTION AWARDS — Six Strokes of Genius — After a lifetime of making racecars go faster, Bruce Crower's new engine uses steam to squeeze more mileage from gas … Name: Steam-o-Lene Engine — Inventor: Bruce Crower — Cost to Develop: $1,000 — Time: 1.5 years — Prototype | | | | |
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Leading the charge on iPhone — Brace yourself for another tsunami of hype. — May's craze was "American Idol." June's will be the Apple iPhone, which is going on sale in a few weeks. As with "Idol," the iPhone show has lots of Seattle connections. — The season begins Wednesday …
Ivan Pope / Vecosys:
Working with Facebook f8: you are not in control of your access — Facebook launched their Developer API last week to a lot of acclaim. Several commentators jumped in with the hyperbole, claiming that this platform, with its 20 million, and growing, users, would be a fine space in which to build a business.
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Resonance Partnership Blog, Online Media Cultist, Rev2.org, Digital Markets and Steve Clayton
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The Huffington Post:
MARTIN VARSAVSKY — My Investments in the Video Online Space and My Take on the Whole Sector — This week I ran into Chad Hurley of Youtube at Google Zeitgeist Europe and I mentioned to him my view that while incredibly successful and simple to use, YouTube needs certain improvements to keep growing at its frantic pace.
Reuters:
Toshiba to use AMD chip in laptop PCs (Reuters) — TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said it would buy microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - news), ending its exclusive ties with Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) for the supply of the brains that run computers, and sending its shares higher.
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Engadget
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Branding — Ads of the World is an online archive of the best and most interesting advertisements from across the world. Today I came across an advertisement on their site that uses four simple pictures to explain to you the difference …
