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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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Jeremy Liew / VentureBeat:
Ad Networks: Why it's better than ever to be a targeted content site — One of the hallmarks of the last few years on the internet has been the growing length of the "long tail". Compete released some data last year showing that its panel was visiting 77% more websites than it did five years ago:
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 …
Michele Mehl / Twango:
Nokia acquires Twango to offer a comprehensive media sharing experience — Share photos, video and other media through virtually any connected device — Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango (www.twango.com).
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Matthew Broersma / PC World:
Acer: PC Industry 'Disappointed' with Vista — Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system. — Recommend this story? — Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer …
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Erika Brown / Forbes:
There UGO — On Tuesday morning, Hearst Corp. was expected to announce the acquisition of UGO Networks, a collection of Web sites targeting young men interested in video games, sports and pictures of hot girls. UGO claims 11 million unique visitors a month.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Hearst Buys UGO.com; Possibly As Much As $100M-$150M
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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
TiVo Targets the Mainstream — The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns — Can a low-cost, high-definition digital video recorder clear up TiVo's blurry picture?
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Chris Remo / Shacknews:
Developers on Unreal Engine 3 and the Silicon Knights Lawsuit — Last week the internet—or at least the video game-related parts of it—exploded when Epic Games quietly announced that it had been sued by developer Silicon Knights. That quiet announcement quickly turned into a frenzy as the full text of the lawsuit surfaced.
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Is Xbox 360 is doomed — We're still a few months from holiday shopping season, but I'm making this prediction now: The Xbox 360 is this year's PS3. Last year, of course, was when Sony's over-priced, under-delivered next generation console cost the company its preeminence in the console market to the Nintendo Wii.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites — Slide, Rockyou and HotorNot, three companies with the largest number of users on Facebook, are showing continued traffic growth on their own sites. — The finding, reported by Quantcast, a service that tracks traffic trends for Web sites …
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Credibility called into question — Will SunRocket's failure jeopardize Net phone firms? — Internet telephone provider SunRocket's sudden closure last week not only surprised and disappointed subscribers, it also cast a shadow on the future of similar, low-cost Internet phone services.
Colin Gibbs / RCR Wireless News:
Crown Castle bails from mobile TV effort, Modeo's fate unclear — Crown Castle International Corp. is spinning off its Modeo business, agreeing to lease Modeo's nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms.
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Nintendo DS, Wii Continue Hardware Sales Lead for June — Nintendominates video game hardware sales for June — The sales numbers released by research firm NPD Group for June continue to highlight Nintendo's current strength in the market. Both the Nintendo DS and Wii lead all of its competitors …
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Troy Unrau / Open Ended:
The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit — There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble, day 2 — Saturday's post about Feedburner was much-discussed, and that's good. The most common rebuttal was the user's ability to opt out. If you don't like it you don't have to use Feedburner. But that's not any kind of a rebuttal. Let me illustrate.
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