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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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Epicenter, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Union Square Ventures, Silicon Alley Insider and DealBook
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Jeremy Liew / VentureBeat:
Ad Networks: Why it's better than ever to be a targeted content site — [Editor's note: This is an opinion piece by Jeremy Liew, a parter at Lightspeed Venture Partners] — One of the hallmarks of the last few years on the internet has been the growing length of the "long tail".
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 …
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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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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Rev2.org, blognation, MobHappy, CenterNetworks, Mashable! and GigaOM
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Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:Nokia Extends Web Push With Twango Purchase
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alarm:clock, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, mocoNews.net, BeyondVC, MobileCrunch and hypebot
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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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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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:AT&T reports 146,000 iPhone activations in first two days
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman
Michelle Roberts / Associated Press:
AT&T Posts 61 Percent Earnings Increase — AT&T Posts 61 Percent Increase in Earnings, Primarily on Buyout of BellSouth — SAN ANTONIO (AP) — AT&T Inc. posted a 61 percent increase in second-quarter earnings on Tuesday, lifted primarily by its buyout of BellSouth Corp. but also aided by gains in wireless subscribers and revenue.
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Stephan Spencer / CNET News.com:
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google — I got to enjoy Matt Cutts live and in person on Saturday speaking to the WordPress bloggers and fans at WordCamp 2007. Matt was in top form, witty as ever. The session was blogged by numerous folks.
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WebProNews, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Roundtable, Bobulate, Webware.com and Mighty Seek
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Is Xbox 360 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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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.
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 …
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Non-profit may launch $350 laptop by Christmas — BOSTON (Reuters) - A non-profit group that designs low-cost computers for poor children hopes to start selling multimedia laptops to consumers by Christmas, a foundation executive said on Monday. — The One Laptop Per Child Foundation's rugged XO laptop …
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 …
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.
