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Yahoo!:
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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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.
Barryg / Announcements:
Update on the Windows Ultimate Extras — When we launched Windows Vista in January 2007, we identified Windows Ultimate Extras as a unique series of add-ons that would be available to Windows Vista Ultimate customers. To date, we have released four sets of Extras - Windows Hold'Em …
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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Ellison's NetSuite Headed for IPO — Oracle's chief executive plans to take his accounting software company public in a September auction. Critics worry about his role — Make way for Larry Ellison's other company. NetSuite, begun in 1998 with a slice of the personal fortune of the Oracle …
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Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt:
NetSuite Decides To Go Dutch For Date With Public Market — The concept of Dutch auction IPOs has been around for some time, but despite its promise of being fairer to investors, the concept hasn't really gained much traction on Wall Street. Without a doubt, Google's IPO is the most prominent company …
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Reuters:
Local.com shares soar after mobile local search patent win — BANGALORE, July 2 (Reuters) - Shares of Local.com (LOCM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 52 percent, after the Web search services provider said it received a patent for mobile local search. — The Irvine, California-based company …
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Market Wire:
Local.com Granted U.S. Patent Number 7,200,413 for Ad-Supported 411 Local Search Model — Free Enhanced Directory Assistance Supported by Referral Advertising Revenues — Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company …
CNNMoney.com:
iPhone sales said to hit half-million — New Apple device lives up to the hype, though some buyers have activation woes; availability mixed at Apple Stores heading into new week. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Opening weekend sales of iPhones may have reached 500,000, according to an analyst's estimate …
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Infinite Loop, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Blackfriars' Marketing, BloggingStocks, Cult of Mac and kottke.org
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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:Apple May Have Sold 500,000 IPhones, Beating Estimate
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Reuters, CNET News.com, Epicenter, iLounge, Valleywag, Gadget Lab, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus and Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
GTA: Hoodlife - Virus Attack is a Public Enemy — Recently, there have been a number of weblogs, forums and chatrooms where spam messages advertising a videogame similar to the below have been posted: — Click to Enlarge — If you go to the YouTube video in question …
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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 …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A Player of Video Games and Politics — Michael D. Gallagher does not make video games. He doesn't review them. He doesn't sell them. But recently he became one of the most important people in the video-game industry and, by extension, a powerful shaper of the digital entertainment consumed …
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 …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Mobo makers say AMD Phenom delayed until 1Q08, but AMD says launch remains set for 2H07 (update) — AMD's Phenom processors were originally planned to begin test-production between September and October, and to start shipping in November this year. However, AMD may now be planning …
