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Louise Story / New York Times:
Online Customized Ads Move a Step Closer — Yahoo will announce new tools for online advertising today that could pull the company ahead in the race for what is called "behavioral targeting," that is, the ability to better tailor online advertisements to the people most likely to buy.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo launches customizable ad tool — Yahoo just upped the ante in the display advertising space. — On Monday the Web giant launched a new display advertising product called SmartAds, which allows marketers to offer ads that are customized according to the Web surfer's age, gender, location and online activities.
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Yahoo Ads Get Personal: NOT Google Radio Ads — Yahoo ads are getting personal. How about Google? CEO Eric Schimdt has a personal advertising "fantasy." — Personalized radio advertising, as imagined by Schmidt one year ago: While driving past a clothing store, a radio ad should remind Eric …
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Yahoo!'s New ''SmartAds'' Meld Brand and Direct Response Advertising — Innovative, Patent-Pending Ad Delivery Platform Allows Marketers to Present Highly Targeted Online Display Ads in Real Time to Match a User's Distinctive, Expressed Interests — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jul 02, 2007 …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Universal in Dispute With Apple Over iTunes — Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is an emerging force in the mobile phone business, thanks to the snaking lines of gadget fans who queued up last week to buy the iPhone. But now he faces a headache in an industry Apple already dominates — digital music.
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Universal Music declines long-term iTunes deal: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, has declined to sign a long-term deal with Apple Inc.'s iTunes music store, leaving open the possibility for exclusive deals with other services, an industry source said on Sunday.
Wall Street Journal:Universal Music May Seek Shorter iTunes-Sales Pact
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Piper Jaffray: 500,000 iPhones sold over the weekend — Apple sold around half a million iPhones the first weekend the device went on sale, one analyst firm has estimated. — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster released a report Sunday night estimating that Apple sold about 500,000 units …
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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple May Have Sold 500,000 IPhones, Beating Estimate — Apple Inc.'s initial iPhone sales may have beat analysts' top projections, suggesting Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will reach his goal of making mobile phones as profitable to the company as computers and the iPod.
Ed Hardy / Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews:
"Palm OS II" Pushed Back to 2008 — In May of this year, Palm, Inc. announced that it is developing its own operating system that will be based on Linux, but also include important parts of the Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS Garnet). — At that time, the company said that the first devices running …
Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Google apologises for Sicko outburst — A la Ferret Blog ye not — THE LATEST TWIST in Google's do-no-evil saga reflects a growing uncertainty about the direction Silicon Valley's biggest startup is taking. — The public and press perception of the company is now heading towards …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:Company blogging 101 — Here's a short summary of the recent Google blogging brouhaha:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google, "Sicko" Opinions & Issues With Playing Ad Agency
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
In a Bid for Dow Jones, an Entrepreneur Again Finds Murdoch as Rival — In the continuing saga of Rupert Murdoch's quest for Dow Jones & Company, perhaps the strangest turn is the rival offer from Brad Greenspan, a former chief executive of Intermix Media, the onetime parent company of the social networking service MySpace.
Washington Post:
Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image — At the height of the cyber-abuse, Sue Scheff, a consultant to parents of troubled teens, would type her name in a Google search box and brace herself: Up would pop page after page of attack postings. … The stream of negative comments began …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Senior execs targeted in 'precision' malware attacks — Spear phishers prey on friends and family of top managers — Hackers are targeting senior managers of large firms - along with members of their families - in a new wave of highly-focused email attacks.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kevin v. Evan — So I've had a week now to play around with Pownce, Kevin Rose's (the founder of Digg, pictured left) newly launched Twitter killer. — Twitter, which launched a year ago, was obviously used as the initial inspiration for the Pownce. They both allow users to sign up …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Harry Potter worm claims death of teen wizard — Hackers are attempting to exploit Potter-mania with the release of a worm that attempts to infect USB memory drives. — The Hairy-A worm poses as a file containing a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the eagerly-anticipated final novel …
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