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James S. Granelli / Los Angeles Times:
AT&T to target pirated content — It joins Hollywood in trying to keep bootleg material off its network. — AT&T Inc. has joined Hollywood studios and recording companies in trying to keep pirated films, music and other content off its network — the first major carrier of Internet traffic to do so.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
AT&T willing to spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA — In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.
comScore:
"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Launched to Track Widget Usage Across the Web — Photo-related Widgets Dominate the Top 10; — Slide Ranks #1 with Worldwide Reach of 117 Million People — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix …
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:'Widgets' May Snag More Ads
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Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
EBay pulls ads from Google's U.S. ad network — But it keeps its AdWords campaigns going outside of the U.S. — EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be seen in the industry as a sign …
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Valleywag:
Ebay And Google: Hostilities begin — The uneasy peace between the two internet giants is finally, undeniably, over. Google's stock is down 1% this morning after a report that Ebay's stopped purchasing text ads on the search engine. The offense? Google, which is trying to lure away stores …
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Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld:
Update: eBay pulls ads from Google ad network — (InfoWorld) - eBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google's AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
Molly Graham / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Update to our event on 6/14 — eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Mahalo Greenhouse Launches — Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California. The tag line of Mahalo is "we're here to help," and after 15 days of tremendous feedback we've learned one thing: you want to help too!
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Wil Harris / Inquirer:
Slimebuckets, pollution and web conservation Calacanis-style — On the Spot The man from Mahalo — THINK OF HIM as the Internet's Al Gore. No, not the part about inventing it - the part about the imminent environmental meltdown. — Just as Clinton's right hand man and one-time anointed successor …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Ad software maker OpenAds girds to take on Google — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Openads, a supplier of free software used by Web sites to manage online ad campaigns, has received $5 million in initial funding, bolstering it to prepare for increasing competition globally with Google Inc.
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Scott Switzer / Openads Blog:Openads is taking the next major step - announces $5M funding
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Sandisk:
SanDisk Signs Licensing Agreement to Support DivX Format Video — Relationship will Allow Consumers to Enjoy High-Quality DivX Video in the Home or on the Go — DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk …
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Google Custom Search:
Custom Search on the fly — Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom Search Engines (CSEs) even easier to create and keep up to date. — You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code …
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Facebook forced to sell stake after 'hardware stuff-up' — The networking site had to dilute its holding by 10 per cent after realising it hadn't bought enough servers to cope with its expansion — The owners of Facebook, the fast growing social network, were forced to sell a significant share …
Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced — Last week, I participated in the duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I couldn't resist the opportunity to show how Buffy is applicable to the everday Search marketing world, but mostly I was there to get input from you on the duplicate content issues …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
New video-game league seeks mass appeal — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—To Kat Hunter, it was a no-brainer to make Vanessa Arteaga the very first draft pick for a new pro video-game league. — "Vanessa is a guaranteed win," said Hunter, general manager of San Francisco's team in the new Championship Gaming Series league.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
DID FACEBOOK UNDERESTIMATE THE PLATFORM'S SUCCESS? — SECOND UPDATE: Check the end of this post for some more information from Facebook and ViddYou. — I think most of the Web has reached the consensus that Facebook Platform, the social networking site's new initiative to open up its service …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Spartan DX personal DNA tester goes for a mere $15k — Just we always wanted, a DNA tester to call our very own! We've been waiting for them to break that crucial $15k pricepoint, and now Spartan Bioscience has finally accomplished such a feat with its Spartan DX Personal DNA Analyzer.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The vibe — Have you ever been at a banquet or in a boutique or at a concert or a meeting or a company where the vibe was incredibly positive? — I think you know what I mean. A time and place where there was an overflow of positive energy. You felt surrounded by possibility …
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BBC:
Microsoft to reflect UK dialects — A Microsoft project to create downloadable dictionaries to reflect the UK's rich local dialect heritage is drawing to a close. — Users around the UK have been asked to submit their favourite regional dialect words. — The software giant said it has had thousands of responses so far.
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