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Donna Fuscaldo / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's Profit Rises On Wireless Growth — AT&T Inc., reported a 61% rise in net income amid recent acquisitions and said it activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers the last two days of the quarter, 40% of whom were new AT&T Wireless customers. — AT&T has an exclusive deal with Apple Inc …
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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
AT&T Profit Jumps 61 Percent on Benefits of Mergers — AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, reported a 61 percent increase in second-quarter profit after $140 billion in acquisitions almost doubled revenue. — Net income rose to $2.9 billion, or 47 cents a share, from $1.81 billion …
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
AOL HAS AN EYE ON YOU — TO BUY AD TARGETER — After acquiring its way into the video and mobile ad-serving marketplace, CEO Randy Falco is moving AOL into the behavorial-targeting ad market with a deal to purchase Tacoda, The Post has learned. — Sources said AOL is paying between $200 million …
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Business Wire:
AOL Enters into Agreement to Acquire Behavioral Targeting Firm TACODA — Acquisition Will Build on AOL's Efforts to Offer Advanced Targeting Solutions to Advertisers and Publishers — DULLES, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TACODA …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Intel's Core-fueled Xeon MP arrives at 2.93GHz — Meanwhile, lab grunts notch silicon photonics win — Intel finally looks set to carry its Core processor architecture to midrange and high-end servers with the release of a new Xeon code-named Tigerton. — The chip maker today revealed …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:Intel cranks up the speed on fiber for computers
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San Francisco Chronicle:
At least 20,000 without power in downtown S.F. — (07-24) 15:12 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — At least 20,000 customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in downtown San Francisco lost power this afternoon, the utility said. — Brian Swanson, a spokesman for the utility, said outages …
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Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:
Power Outages In San Francisco Bring Down Major Websites — 6 back-to-back power outages hit the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco Tuesday afternoon causing major havoc with popular web services. 365 Main is down, along with craigslist, Netflix, Technorati, Yelp, AdBrite and SixApart.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Laptop power, in-flight internet coming to Qantas — Those already giddy about their 2008 trip to Down Under should now pick up the phone and do whatever it takes to get on one of Qantas' forthcoming A380s or revamped 747-400s, as both planes will reportedly feature in-flight WiFi and laptop power.
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Dan Warne / APC:
Inflight internet lives again: Qantas introduces wireless broadband, laptop power in all classes — Laptop power will be available in every seat of Qantas' new Airbus A380s from August 2008, the airline has announced. It is also retrofitting existing Boeing 747-400s with a new cabin type …
heise.de:
Russian public prosecutor is demanding 3-year jail sentence for head of AllofMP3 — For the former operator of the Russian music download portal allofmp3.com the threat of a prison term in his own country is real. In the trial against Denis Kvasov, the former owner of the site …
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Nokia:
Share photos, video and other media through virtually any connected device — Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango (www.Twango.com). Twango provides a comprehensive media sharing solution for organizing and sharing photos, videos and other personal media.
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Customers First To Upload Videos To YouTube Using Multimedia Messaging — Current subscribers can change their preferences — Change your preferences —==—==—==—== —==—==—==—== —==— Verizon Wireless Customers First To Upload Videos To YouTube Using Multimedia Messaging
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Business Wire:
DivX Announces Plans to Maximize Value and Growth Potential of Core Businesses and Stage6.com — Co-Founder and Chairman Jordan Greenhall to Focus on Stage6 Opportunity; President Kevin Hell Named Acting Chief Executive Officer — SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Respectance, a social network for people who have passed away — Respectance, a San Francisco company that operates a social network for sharing memories of people who have died, has raised $1.5 million in a first round of funding by Solid Ventures and Big Bang Ventures.
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Download Squad, StartupSquad.com, Roam4free, CenterNetworks, blognation, American Venture … and Mashable!
Kate Holton / Reuters:
UK rejects music copyright extension — LONDON (Reuters) - The British government rejected a plea to extend copyright laws for sound recordings to beyond 50 years on Tuesday, prompting the music industry to accuse it of not supporting musicians and artists.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
CIA venture arm invests in video improvement company, MotionDSP — In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the nation's intelligence services, has invested an undisclosed small amount of money into video enhancement company MotionDSP and also awarded it with contracts.
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Facebook Founder Accused of Stealing Idea for Site — Court will hear tales of social networking allegations in Facebook vs. ConnectU — A Boston judge is expected to decide this week whether or not to proceed with a lawsuit alleging that the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg …
Valleywag:
Rumormonger: AOL to get a buyout? — AOL to get a buyout? — Jason Calacanis, the former AOL executive, just posted the following on Twitter: … A good idea, indeed, if Time Warner can find someone willing to pay the $20 billion valuation Google placed on AOL when it agreed to pay $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in late 2005.
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HipMojo.com
Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Microsoft's Vista SP1 fixes not out until 2009? — The tip, incredible. The source, ironclad. Microsoft has apparently told executives at one of the world's largest PC makers not to expect a formal release of Windows Vista SP1 — the first major set of upgrades and bug fixes …
