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Wesley Chan / Official Google Blog:
All aboard — We're pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account …
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Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young — One of the web office suites I'm fond of is Zoho, which has been slowly building up its user base since day one. Today, Zoho announced three applications for Facebook — Writer, Sheet, and Show — which might just do their part …
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth
Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle — Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate [competitive intelligence] espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage. Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-rival, Oracle in the US.
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PR Newswire:
SAP Responds to Oracle Complaint — Affirms SAP Did Not Have Access to Materials Downloaded by TomorrowNow — Acknowledges Some Inappropriate Downloads Occurred at TomorrowNow — SAP Announces New Operational Oversight at TomorrowNow; Firmly Commits to Sustained TommorrowNow Support of its Customers
BBC:
SAP admits Oracle downloads — SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. — Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its computer network and stealing vital product information.
The New / New York Times:
Russian Online Music Service Closes — AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere on the Internet, authorities said yesterday. — The Web site gained attention for selling digital albums cheaply …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government
AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free — Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free. Google did this with Keyhole (now Google Earth), Picasa, SketchUp …
Agence France Presse:
Youtube, SKorea's LG agree to develop mobile phone — SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service. — LG Electronics said the proposed model …
Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Three Developments Driving Local.com Shares Into A Frenzy — Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Yowza! Local.com (LOCM) has been, until recently, a sleepy stock, trading nearly by appointment, with a focus on operating a search engine intended to help people find local businesses.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
BSA announces $1 million reward for piracy snitches — Do you work for a business that's pirating software for its own internal use? If so, you could be in for a windfall if you report it to the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in time. The BSA announced today that they are increasing …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much? — In this post, I answer these questions: … The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup? — The answer to that question, in my view …
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MarketWatch:
Google appeals Belgian copyright law, talks ongoing — BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)—Google Inc. (GOOG : , , ) has filed an appeal against a Belgian court's February ruling that it violated Belgian copyright law, but says talks are ongoing and it hopes to avoid further court action.
Eric Pfanner / International Herald Tribune:
British media organizations look to U.S. market and beyond — LONDON: An article about the ex-girlfriends of Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator and likely Republican presidential candidate, last Monday drew 200,000 visitors to the Web site of the Times newspapers of London.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
iPhone hackers disclose vulns and hunt for clues — The game is on for hackers trying to spot security vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhone and already they're scoring points. — Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have reported at least one flaw that could allow …
Associated Press:
Online software service owned by Oracle co-founder files IPO plans — Online business software provider NetSuite Inc. on Monday filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering of stock, paving the way for another big payday for its owner _ billionaire Larry Ellison.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Five Bad Ideas from the Past Five Days — None of these was worth an entire post. — Universal Music Group Refuses to Renew Apple's Annual License to Sell Their Music on iTunes: So this is what it looks like when an industry that has existed for decades begins to die. I wonder who's going to lose out more?