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BBC:
Music site Last.fm bought by CBS — Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition. — The online network was founded in the UK five years ago and it now has more than 15 million active users.
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Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
CBS to buy social network — It is expected to pay $280 million for the Last.fm site, which caters to music fans. — CBS Corp. is buying a popular social-networking website organized around musical tastes for $280 million, combining a traditional broadcast giant with an early leader in online radio.
Richard Jones / Last.fm:
Last.fm Acquired By CBS — Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia). — The team here have spent a lot …
Fred / A VC:
CBS Buys Last.fm — I just did a search on my blog for the term "last.fm". I've used that term so many times that there are 16 pages of search results and that's just for my blog posts. Clearly I've been obsessed by this service from the day I started using it in the fall of 2005.
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Derick Mains / Apple:
Apple Launches iTunes Plus — Higher Quality DRM-Free Tracks Now Available on the iTunes Store Worldwide — Apple® today launched iTunes® Plus—DRM-free music tracks featuring high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings …
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Apple 2.0, Between the Lines, ITWire, MacUser, Gadgetell, Popgadget, Engadget and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Releases iTunes 7.2, Launches iTunes Plus (DRM Free) [Now Available] — Apple released iTunes 7.2 updated in the Mac OS X Software Update tonight, which offers support for "iTunes Plus", Apple's new DRM-free $1.29 offerings announced in April. — With iTunes 7.2, preview …
Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
First Look: Microsoft Surfacing Computing! — About a year ago I gave a presentation to a group of journalists about gadgets of the future and showed a video about a theoretical multi-touch computing system. When asked when we would see something like that in the wild, I optimistically ballparked 5-7 years.
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Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video) — The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it's built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com …
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Microsoft, BBC, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, The Tech Report, Windows-Now.com, MacDailyNews, Don Park's Daily Habit, istartedsomething and Ryan Stewart
Microsoft:Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes …
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Marcus Adolfsson / TreoCentral:
Palm's Foleo a "smartphone companion product"? — According to a RSS news feed from Palm, their mystery "3rd category" device is a compact smartphone companion product named Foleo that let's you view and edit emails using a large screen and fullsize keyboard.
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Business Wire:
Palm Advances Mobile Computing with Its First Mobile Companion Product — Foleo Mobile Companion Brings Large Screen and Full-size Keyboard to Smartphones — CARLSBAD, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Building on its vision that the future of personal computing is mobile computing, Palm, Inc. …
Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia:
A Remote Vulnerability in Firefox Extensions — See a demo of the attack against Google Browser Sync: (12MB Quicktime). — Executive Summary — A vulnerability exists in the upgrade mechanism used by a number of high profile Firefox extensions. These include Google Toolbar …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Take Note: Computing Takes Up Pen, Again — For more than two decades, the dream of controlling a computer with a pen has seduced and, more often than not, frustrated some of the biggest luminaries in the technology pantheon, including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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Business Wire:
Fox Interactive Media Agrees to Acquire Photobucket and Flektor, Inc. — Web's Fastest-Growing Personal Media Site and Next Generation Web-Based Photo and Video Service to Join News Corporation's Leading Network of Internet Brands — "The acquisition of these two companies is a perfect strategic fit …
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Digital Markets, Valleywag, HipMojo.com, GigaOM, alarm:clock, Between the Lines, 901am, The Next Net, Epicenter, paidContent.org, TechCrunch and Mashable!
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Brent Schlender / Fortune:
The trouble with Apple TV — Steve Jobs' latest is a dud - and that speaks volumes, says Fortune's Brent Schlender. — (Fortune Magazine) — Let's pause for a moment amid the worshipful buzz before the launch of Apple's iPhone in June to consider the heretical notion that Steve Jobs might be promising more than he can deliver.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
DEATH OF JOURNALISM - BLAME GOOGLE? NO. ASK GOOGLE TO LEAD? YES. — Thanks to commentor Kimo for pointing me to this SF Gate Op Ed, written by Neil Henry, a former colleague at the Graduate School of Journalism. — Snip: … I can't disagree more with what Neil is saying in this first part …
