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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netflix Shares Higher On Rumors Of Amazon.com Bid — Netflix (NFLX) shares are higher today on rumors that Amazon.com (AMZN) might make offer to buy the company. In a research note, Bank of America analyst Brian Pitz writes that there is speculation of a $34 a share bid "circulating in the press."
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Associated Press:
Netflix Up on Rumor of Buyout by Amazon — Netflix Up on Rumor of Possible Buyout by Amazon; Analyst Reckons Deal Could Be $1.5B or More — NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Netflix Inc. jumped Wednesday amid a rumor the online video rental company could be acquired by Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.
Business Week:
Netflix: Starring in Merger Story? — After facing down Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, the online DVD-rental company may be an acquisition target — but it won't go for cheap — It's the oldest plot in the movies: Upstart takes on the champ, wins a few rounds, gets his nose bloodied, then gets back up and wins the fight.
Longofest / MacRumors:
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard — Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
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Wall Street Journal:
EBay to Broker Radio Ad Time, Stoking Rivalry With Google — Online auctioneer eBay Inc. plans to begin brokering radio advertisements today, in the latest effort by a Web company to sell offline ads via the Internet. The move ratchets up eBay's competition with Google Inc. and could shake up how radio advertising is sold.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Substitute teacher spared sentencing for porn pop-ups, gets new trial — Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who could have received 40 years in jail after porn appeared on classroom PCs, was spared that fate—for now. Instead, Amero will get a new trial after revelations that the original computer analysis was flawed.
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Vodafone Live 'improvements' kill mCommerce — Find your perfect job - click here for thousands of tech vacancies — Vodafone UK has launched a mobile optimising technology which reformats web pages to fit onto a mobile phone screen. — Unfortunately, it also prevents anyone else doing the same thing …
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Carlo Longino / MobHappy:Vodafone UK, Doing A Lovely Job Of Supporting The Mobile Web By Breaking It
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google: Foreign workers are key to our success — WASHINGTON—A Google executive on Wednesday credited the company's phenomenal success to the United States' openness to immigrants and called on Congress to let in more foreign workers. — Laszlo Bock, the search giant's vice president …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft preps Windows-based kitchen client — Microsoft is beginning work on the first of what it plans to make a family of customized Windows platforms designed for specific rooms around the home. — The "Kitchen Client" software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate …
Rich Karlgaard / Forbes.com:
Sun's Coulda Woulda Shoulda — Sun Microsystems (SUNW) trades at $5 ... Google (GOOG) a hundred times more at $518. — Stock prices mean nothing on their own, of course. Google's market cap at $159 billion is not a hundred times greater than Sun's at $18 billion.
Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
How Craig Newmark Built Craigslist With "No Vision Whatsoever" — Craig Newmark started craigslist in early 1995 as a way of staying on top of San Francisco's busy arts and technology scene. Despite (or perhaps because of) the site's determined non-commercialism, craigslist survived and even thrived in the post-dot-com days.
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
MeetMoi raises cash, for Twitter of sex — MeetMoi, a clever "location based" mobile dating service, has just raised $1.5 million in a first round of financing. — MeetMoi, which got a mention in the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required), lets you find people looking for a date, on-the-fly, wherever you are.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Releases Calendar Directory — Google Calendar went live with a directory of public calendars, so you can quickly add calendars of interest (you could search for shared calendars before, but to be able to browse them too is a nice addition). The gallery includes categories like …
Fred von Lohmann / Washington Post:
Copyright Silliness on Campus — What do Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke, Howard and UCLA have in common? Apparently, leaders in Congress think that they aren't expelling enough students for illegally swapping music and movies. — The House committees responsible for copyright and education wrote …
